Patient-First Language

They care for the sickest patients, who sometimes die on their watch. When they do, critical care nurses want to make their final days and death as peaceful and painless as possible

Patients are increasingly turning to tattoos instead of MedicAlert-type bracelets and pendants to alert emergency providers to their medical conditions.

Teaching volunteer peer educators about risk factors and how to reduce them proves effective in Canadian study

Hospitals suddenly become cold, unfamiliar settings when a stethoscope is exchanged for a gown