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April Kapu, RN, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), discusses the future of the nurse practitioner workforce amid ongoing challenges relating to burnout and extreme fatigue and stress.

April Kapu, RN, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), discusses the latest guidance from the CDC on recommending a fourth booster for seniors and immunocompromised individuals.

April Kapu, RN, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, discusses recently released data showing the role of the nurse practitioner is ranked number one among health care jobs.

April Kapu, DNP, a professor at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, discusses the shifting roles and responsibilities of nurse practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic.

April Kapu, DNP, a professor at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, discusses the role of the nurse practitioner during the shifting needs of the pandemic.

April Kapu, DNP, a professor at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, an acute care nurse practitioner, and president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, discusses the future of the nurse practitioner field amid widespread health care staffing burnout.

Rachel Rubin, MD, an assistant clinical professor in urology at Georgetown and a urologic surgeon, discusses ways of providing guidance to patients who may have hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

Laura Lee Hall, PhD, president of the Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC), discusses how the SHC’s diabetes DRIVE program compares with the SHC DRIVE models aimed at improving flu and COVID-19 vaccination rates.

Laura Lee Hall, PhD, president of the Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC), discusses the results of the SHC’s DRIVE toolkit’s pilot program assessing the toolkit’s efficacy.

Laura Lee Hall, PhD, president of the Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity, addresses some potential consequences of the disparities in diabetes care among racial and ethnic populations if not efficiently addressed.

Lea Davis, PhD, of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, discusses how a lack of training in the intersection of these domains has caused health systems to fail a subset of patients, including those experiencing functional seizures.

Nate Royster, RN, an emergency department charge nurse at Ohio State, discusses how he’s been able to manage his own daily wellbeing and mental health during the pandemic as an emergency department nurse working on the frontlines.

Lea Davis, PhD, of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, discusses the importance of identifying the biological correlates to developing functional seizures.

Rita Wise, DEd, MSN, RN, program director of the Masters in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration programs at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, discusses her hopes for how the country and health systems will respond to the national nurse staffing crisis moving forward.

Rita Wise, DEd, MSN, RN, program director of the Masters in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration programs at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, discusses the impact of this staffing crisis on patient health outcomes.

Rita Wise, DEd, MSN, RN, program director of the Masters in Nursing Education and Nursing Administration programs at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, discusses the national nurse staffing crisis and its possible causes.

Nate Royster, RN, an emergency department charge nurse at Ohio State, discusses the impact nurses can have as educators of patients on factual data pertaining to COVID-19 vaccines.

Nate Royster, RN, an emergency department charge nurse at Ohio State, discusses how to encourage vaccinations with empathy to help address disparities and hesitancy around COVID-19 vaccinations.

Jennifer Andrews, MD, pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Vanderbilt University Medical and medical director of Vanderbilt University Medical’s blood bank, discusses the national blood shortage and its impact on health systems and patient care.

Anna Legreid-Dopp, PharmD, Senior Director of Clinical Guidelines and Quality Improvement at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists discusses Pfizer’s request to approve their COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11.

Lea Davis, PhD, of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, explained why women have a higher statistical likelihood of experiencing functional seizures than men.

In a Contemporary Clinic interview, Jessica Hui, a researcher and pediatric allergist at National Jewish Health, discussed how increased hand hygiene may be harming the hands of healthcare workers.

Laura Lee Hall, PhD, president of the Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC), discusses the SHC’s recently released Flu DRIVE Toolkit, which was designed to help overburdened health systems improve flu vaccination rates among vulnerable populations.

Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC, founding executive director of Nurses Who Vaccinate, discusses the FDA’s completion of its review of the BLA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and its potential impact on nurses who are working to support the COVID-19 vaccination process.

Carrie Cuttler, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University, discusses some of the limitations present in her research into the use of cannabis to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Carrie Cuttler, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University, discusses how clinical research into the use of cannabis may impact the treatment of mental health conditions.

Bethany Hall, MSN, owner of Healing Connection, discusses her hopes for the future of treatment and care for children suffering from complex developmental trauma.

Lea Davis, PhD, of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, discussed how the effective treatment of functional seizures could help to support the treatment of other comorbid psychiatric conditions as well.

Bethany Hall, MSN, the owner of Healing Connection, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the occurrence of complex developmental trauma among children.

Contemporary Clinic spoke with John Lee, a recent graduate from the Acute Care cohort at the University of Washington's School of Nursing, about his experience and what he hopes other PNPs can learn in their experiences.