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"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The experience of ethnically diverse parents of children with serious illness in the US healthcare system has not been well studied. Results: Parents desired two-way trusting and respectful relationships with medical staff. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA.

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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Many healthcare facilities in the U.S. are already struggling with staffing shortages , but others have turned to healthcare staffing agencies like Barton Associates to fill in the gaps. By filling vacancies in critical positions, temporary medical staff help maintain essential service and ensure continuity of patient care.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. They can go in and out the rooms and interact with the inmates because the inmates a lot of them have a mistrust of medical staff and authority that’s been long ingrained in concrete for so long.

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