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This overview and discussion highlights the learnings gleaned during practice in a ketamine service unit. Discussion points include treatment considerations for the two entities, switching from IV to intranasal, and a collection of pearls.

Assaults against nurses, unfortunately, is nothing new. But the frequency of the violence is increasing.

New research into intermittent fasting has found that the practice is generally safe, producing few gastrointestinal, neurologic, hormonal, or metabolic effects. Additionally, the research found that intermittent fasting is on par with traditional calorie-restricted diets for weight loss.

Nurses and the American Nurses Association (ANA) worry the conviction of RaDonda Vaught could set precedent as the profession struggles with burnout and exhaustion due to COVID-19. In 2019, Vaught, 38, was charged with reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse after she allegedly gave a patient a paralytic instead of a sedative ahead of a PET scan.

A class action lawsuit against TeamHealth has concluded with a $15 million award settlement to be shared by some 3,000 emergency physicians in almost every US state. The doctors named in the court case alleged that TeamHealth, one of the nation’s largest medical staffing companies with 15,000 physicians, and its subsidiary Paragon Contracting Services, LLC, were in breach of their contracts and secretly cheated doctors out of a portion of the bonuses they were promised. The physicians claimed that their contracts required TeamHealth to pay them a bonus when they supervised care provided by a physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or other advanced practice provider (APP), but that did not happen.

Congress is looking into allegations that several nurse staffing agencies have been engaging in price gouging during the pandemic by charging hospitals extremely high fees for the services their nurses provide. The allegations have stirred the nursing community, which is growing concerned about possible implications, particularly whether the political scrutiny will result in state-level restrictions placed on the amounts that staffing agencies can charge for nursing services.