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In Recommended Reading for Nurses, we offer access to the hottest topics in nursing and healthcare, as well as other “must-read” content.
See what your fellow nurses are reading!
Browse this month's round-up of 10 top articles from Lippincott's prestigious list of nursing journals.
The changing landscape of emergency contraception
The Nurse Practitioner, February 2025
Growing grit: Perseverance and passion in nursing education
Nursing 2025, February 2025
National Analysis of Preexisting Immunosuppressive Conditions and Infection-Related Readmissions Among Sepsis Survivors
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, January/February 2025
Assessing a Group Coaching Program Designed to Disrupt Nurse Burnout: The SHINE Pilot
Nursing Management, January 2025
Neuromuscular Electrostimulation Increases Microcirculatory Flux in Mixed Etiology Leg Ulcers
Advances in Skin and Wound Care, January/February 2025
Using ChatGPT to Engage Students and Promote Critical Thinking
Nursing made Incredibly Easy!, November/December 2024
Development and Content Validity of a Questionnaire on Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Maintenance and Knowledge of Nursing Professionals Regarding Best Practices
Journal of Infusion Nursing, January/February 2025
Ethical Considerations for Nurse Practitioners Conducting Research in Populations with Opioid Use Disorder
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, January 2025
Critical Appraisal of Evidence: Synthesis and Recommendations
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, January 2025
Elements Supporting Translation of Evidence Into Practice: A Model for Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Scientist Collaboration Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, November/December 2024
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I have to admit: I am feeling more than a little out-of-sorts with the current political situation and what could happen to public health, medicine and medical research (among other things) in the next few years ... Life as we know it will change.
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Navigating through the storm:
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On Friday night, Dr. Gordon Schiff, the quality and safety director at the Harvard Medical School, received an email from a colleague informing him that one of his academic papers published on a federal website was taken down. It included the words “transgender” and "LGBTQ," which are among the words that are being removed quickly from federal websites following the Trump administration's orders to stop diversity initiatives, remove references to gender and equity from public health material and withdraw research papers that promote "gender ideology."
Schiff's paper, “Multiple Missed Opportunities for Suicide Risk Assessment” — available on the Wayback Machine — was published in 2022 on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Patient Safety Network website. It was a case study with advice and commentary for physicians and it included this sentence: “High-risk groups include male sex, being young, veterans, Indigenous tribes, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ).”
“We weren’t even advocating anything here,” says Schiff, who is also the associate director of Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice. “We were just reporting what the risk factors were.”
Between Friday and Sunday, nearly 8,000 U.S. government websites were taken down, reported Ethan Singer of The New York Times. ABC News reported on Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed its officials to remove content related to climate change from public websites. It’s unclear whether the web pages will come back online, and if so, to what extent they will be modified.
Schiff says he's aware of 19 other papers and summaries that were removed from AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network.
“A wholesale censoring of things that have already been published, a wholesale precluding of the kind of research where the problems are the greatest is chilling and it’s dangerous,” says Schiff, who began his medical residency in 1976 and has been at the Brigham since 2007. “People’s lives are going to be lost.”
Schiff encouraged journalists to continue holding public officials accountable.
“They need to be exposing abuses like this,” he says. “They need to be not afraid.”
While journalists continue to report stories about what's happening to federal health data, they also need access to data to report stories about health issues in general.
There’s no perfect alternative to the government databases, but some non-governmental organizations have their own datasets, which can be useful to journalists. Several journalism associations have also been downloading government data and making them available to their members.
To help journalists with their continued reporting, we have curated a list of non-government websites that have health data, although some use government data to create their reports.
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Last week, in response to CDC removing critical scientific research, ACOG President Stella Dantas, MD, FACOG, and ACOG CEO Sandra E. Brooks, MD, MBA, FACOG, released a statement calling for uncensored access to scientific research and clinical data. In the statement, they wrote that “removing or limiting access to data and information does not constitute good health policy or contribute to improved health outcomes.”
ACOG has also taken steps to ensure that access to these critical resources is restoredfor all health care professionals, scientists, and researchers. Along withother ACOG-endorsed guidance documents, the following resources are now availableon the ACOG website:
- Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for ages 19 years or older (2025)
- Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger (2025)
- Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021
- U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024
- U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024
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Bust of Hippocrates, Engraving 1638, Paulus Pontius (after Rubens)
The February 2025 Art In Medicine topic is about Hippocrates.
Lucinda Bennett, the Medical Librarian at Ascension St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD, publishes a regular series on Art in Medicine and The Health Humanities.
Hippocrates
In the history of the medical arts, there is possibly no more familiar name than Hippocrates. Considered the father of medicine, Hippocrates’ name is invoked by all graduating physicians, his texts read in a great many classes and his image shared in various media across time and place. However, as is usually the case, history is often clouded by myth and this storied doctor is no different. So who was he really, do we actually know what he looked like, and are his writings truly written by a single author?
“Hippocrates (born c. 460 bce, island of Cos, Greece—died c. 375 bce, Larissa, Thessaly) was an ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece’s Classical period … It is difficult to isolate the facts of Hippocrates’ life from the later tales told about him or to assess his medicine accurately in the face of centuries of reverence for him as the ideal physician. About 60 medical writings have survived that bear his name, most of which were not written by him. He has been revered for his ethical standards in medical practice, mainly for the Hippocratic Oath, which, it is suspected, he did not write. It is known that while Hippocrates was alive, he was admired as a physician and teacher. His younger contemporary Plato referred to him twice. In the Protagoras Plato called Hippocrates “the Asclepiad of Cos” who taught students for fees, and he implied that Hippocrates was as well known as a physician as Polyclitus and Phidias were as sculptors.” (Britannica)
At the time Hippocrates was living and practicing, the perspective of where medicine lay within ancient Greek life was much different than how we view that field today. In fact, it was considered an art rather than a science, which was not yet fully formed as a discipline. As such, the philosophy which Hippocrates was taught and would later teach via medicine, approached treatment of the sick in a manner that is alien to many today. “The term art is used very often, especially in Plato, however, the ancients separated art from other (after intellectual disciplines. Even when they perceive art in this more limited way, they always tend to include medicine among the arts, such as shoemaking, woodworking, agriculture, rhetoric and poetry, for the reason that medicine generates health. By creating health, medicine seems both, poetic and utilitarian art because physicians use a variety of tools and methods in order to achieve health for their society. Since medicine is the most important of the arts, those who are going to follow it are required to have many spiritual and moral qualifications if they wish to serve it properly.” (Philosophy & Hippocratic Ethic)
Encyclopedia Britannica states the documents attributed to Hippocrates contain various theories, tones of writing, and evidence that these works were the cumulative experiences of several individual authors. As with many ancient texts, they were added to, translated and altered over the centuries. By all accounts Hippocrates was a real man, but wrote only a fraction of works bearing his name. Still, his impact was felt after his death in the manner in which later scholars and artists would interact with his body of work and even his appearance. “Hippocrates’ reputation, and myths about his life and his family, began to grow in the Hellenistic period, about a century after his death.
Hippocrates Refuses the Gifts of Artaxerxes, Painting
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, 1792
During this period, the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt collected for its library literary material from preceding periods in celebration of the past greatness of Greece. So far as it can be inferred, the medical works that remained from the Classical period (among the earliest prose writings in Greek) were assembled as a group and called the works of Hippocrates (Corpus Hippocraticum). Linguists and physicians subsequently wrote commentaries on them, and, as a result, all the virtues of the Classical medical works were eventually attributed to Hippocrates and his personality constructed from them.” (Britannica) In later centuries these texts were then expanded upon by Muslim physicians, further carried the teaching of Hippocrates into a new era, codifying his theories on illness. “By translating masterpieces of Greek learning into Arabic, which would be eventually rendered into Latin, scholar-physicians such as Haly Abbas, Rhazes, Avicenna, and Albucasis performed the extraordinary miracle of reintroducing Greek authors into Western Europe, including Hippocrates and Galen.” (The Art of Science & Healing) By the modern era, fictions blurred with fact as to what this famous physician did or did not do. In fact, even his appearance is not honestly known. The elderly man with short hair and a full beard is an archetype typical of Classical Greece, not a means of true portraiture. How we imagine Hippocrates could be just as fictional as some of the stories attached to him, such as the instance with the King of Persia, as depicted here. “The painting is based on a historical and legendary episode that occurred during the reign of Artaxerxes I, when Persia was ravaged by a devastating plague. In a desperate attempt to save his kingdom, the Persian king sent ambassadors to Greece to request the help of Hippocrates, the most renowned healer of his time. Artaxerxes offered lavish gifts and large sums of money to persuade Hippocrates to come to Persia and eradicate the plague. However, Hippocrates, staying true to his homeland and his ethical principles, rejected the king’s offer. Despite the wealth and rewards he was promised, Hippocrates chose to remain in Greece, refusing to aid the enemies of his country, even though it meant forgoing great riches. Soon after, the same plague spread to Greece, affecting the land Hippocrates had chosen to protect.” (Art Insider)
References:
Hippocrates - Encyclopedia Britannica
Philosophy and Hippocratic Ethic in Ancient Greek Society: Evolution of Hospital - Sanctuaries
The Art of Science and Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Reprinted with the generous permission of Ms. Bennett.
