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Nurses Struggle through a New COVID Wave with Rage and Compassion

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Health Care

Nurses Struggle through a New COVID Wave with Rage and Compassion

A critical care nurse confronts the Omicron surge filling her hospital

By Kathryn Ivey

Psychology

New Year's Resolutions Are Notoriously Slippery, but Science Can Help You Keep Them

You can change your behavior in lasting ways by changing how you frame your situation, explains behavioral scientist Ayelet Fishbach in her new book

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Fires Doubled Australia's Carbon Emissions--Ecosystems May Never Soak It Back Up

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By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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Nurses Are Also Scientists

The pandemic has only reinforced what nursing professionals have known all along

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I became a nurse because I want to help people. I don't want to watch them die these horrible, preventable deaths, shift after shift and year after year. No health care worker does."

Kathryn Ivey, critical care nurse at a medical center in Nashville, Tennessee

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