One of the biggest issues in healthcare is staffing shortages—and it impacts us all. While healthcare staffing challenges are not new, they are forecasted to reach crisis levels in the coming years. For nursing staff alone, the International Centre on Nurse Migration projects a 13 million shortage by 2030, an increase from 6 million pre-pandemic. And the World Health…
Medications are prescribed to improve patients’ health, not worsen it; however, when medications have dangerous interactions or are taken incorrectly, patients can experience hazardous, even fatal effects. Polypharmacy, the practice of taking multiple medications simultaneously for the management of one or more health conditions, is becoming a growing concern for physicians, due to possible drug-drug interactions (DDIs) that can…
The transition from academia to the professional world is a critical phase in an individual’s life, necessitating careful consideration of career choices. In India, there exists a significant disparity between the knowledge individuals possess and the knowledge required in the industry. Regrettably, this gap often diverts many individuals from making the right career decisions, as the skills and knowledge…
Crossing the stage and graduating is not an easy task, and for Latino students it seems to be even more difficult, as the education gap between Latino and white, non-Hispanic students has widened within the last four years. A recent report by Excelencia in Education, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes Latino student achievement, shows that the number of…
This is the first in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the second part here and the third part here. At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. As we’ve…
Far away from the political gridlock in Washington, D.C., a new energy consensus is brewing in the U.S., including in its reddest and most fossil fuel-reliant states. It is one where all agree that “energy is energy, whether it is generated by wind, steam or whatever it might be,” as Dewey F. Bartlett Jr., a former oil and gas…