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Infant Eye Trouble Similar With Confirmed and Suspected Antenatal Zika Exposure Babies with suspected and confirmed antenatal Zika virus exposure have similar ocular abnormalities, and even well-appearing infants may have Zika-related eye manifestations, report clinicians from Brazil.
Reuters Health Information, September 16, 2018
Most Clinicians Comfortable Praying With Patients However, commenters on a Medscape poll ranged from those who thought doing so would be disingenuous to those who always say yes to patients' requests to pray.
Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2018

Can NPs and PAs Replace Hospitalists? Are physician-extenders just as capable of caring for patients as hospitalists are?
Medscape Hospital Medicine, September 20, 2018
What Can a Nurse Do? Healthcare attorney Carolyn Buppert provides a decision-making framework about how to answer critical scope-of-practice questions. Download a useful PDF.
Medscape Nurses, September 11, 2018

Palliative Care in Intensive Care Units
BMC Anesthesiology, September 19, 2018
Continuity and Access in the Era of Part-time Practice
Annals of Family Medicine, August 27, 2018
Hormonal Contraceptive Consent by Minors
U.S. Pharmacist, August 24, 2018
Moving Shift Report to the Bedside
OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, August 24, 2018
New Nurse Graduate Residency Mentoring
Nursing Economics, August 15, 2018

What Can a Nurse Do? Healthcare attorney Carolyn Buppert provides a decision-making framework about how to answer critical scope-of-practice questions. Download a useful PDF.
Medscape Nurses, September 11, 2018

Nurse Uniforms: Who Cares What Nurses Wear? A look back at nursing uniforms reveals how and why we ended up dressing the way we do.
Medscape Nurses, April 6, 2017