This Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
Here's your industry news for Monday, July 31st.
First, nursing process releases this year's rankings for the top unhappiest,
jobs for nurses.
Nursing process is an independent educational resource site.
It uses metrics like salary, upward mobility, stress level, flexibility,
work-life balance, and future industry growth.
The most unhappiest is school nurse. This is followed by hospital staff nurse,
ER nurse, substance abuse nurse and correctional nursing.
Second wallet hub releases its analysis on best and worst states.
For healthcare, it compares 44 metrics of healthcare cost,
access, and outcomes. The five worst states are West Virginia,
Mississippi, Alaska, Alabama, and Louisiana.
The five best states are Minnesota, Iowa, Rhode Island, North Dakota,
and Utah. Third,
experts believe rising temperatures may also mean a rise of brain eating amoeba
infections. In July,
a person in Georgia and a person in Nevada both died from contracting a brain
eating amoeba after swimming and bodies of fresh water.
Brain eating amoebas are commonly found in warm climates in southern states.
However,
July is one of the hottest months on record and climate change is warming other
regions so much that they're becoming ideal hosts.
For the Amos infections are rare and it does not spread from person
to person. However, the disease is extremely deadly.
The C D C says infections usually happen when temperatures are hot.
This results in higher water temps and lower water levels. Currently,
treatment is difficult. Previous findings.
Point to using the UT I treatment drug NitroLine as a possible aid.
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