Healthcare professionals strive to offer their patients personalized care and treatments that will work best for their specific needs. In pursuit of this goal, many providers are beginning to reject an approach to medicine that only considers a person’s symptoms. Instead, they are embracing a more wholistic approach called narrative medicine.
The Impact and Growing Importance of Narrative Medicine in the Healthcare Industry
Topics: Healthcare
How to Prepare Yourself for the Increasingly Aging Population
Every day, 10,000 Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) turn 65 years old. The United States is soon going to have its largest senior population ever, with more than 70 million people (one in five Americans) ages 65 or older by 2030. Communities and health care professionals across the country must prepare to meet the needs of seniors, from offering specialized exercise courses to increased access to long-term health services.
Topics: Healthcare, Aging Adult
Meet Your Instructor: Julie Guenette, PhD, MScN
Julie Guenette, PhD, MScN is an instructor in the Functional Nutrition Program at PCC. She teaches Nutrition in Lifecycles.
Topics: Healthcare, Meet the IHP Team, Functional Nutrition
Meet Your Instructor: Casey Sims
Topics: Healthcare, Meet the IHP Team, Interpersonal Neurobiology
Career Opportunities in Clinical Research
Updated Jan. 12, 2022
Clinical research skills and knowledge are a great tool for those in entry-level medical jobs hoping to advance their career or simply gain more extensive knowledge of healthcare. If you're a nurse, phlebotomist, pharmacy technician, dental assistant/ hygienist, physicians assistant, nurse practitioner, or work in a similar profession, clinical research can broaden your horizons and open new avenues of employment.
Topics: Healthcare, Entry Level Healthcare Careers, Clinical Research
Meet Your Instructor: Nara Luy, PhD
Topics: Healthcare, Meet the IHP Team, Interpersonal Neurobiology
Meet Your Instructor: Debra Pearce-McCall
Topics: Healthcare, Meet the IHP Team, Interpersonal Neurobiology
Meet Your Instructor: Mary Meador
Topics: Healthcare, Meet the IHP Team, Interpersonal Neurobiology
Meet Your Instructor: Mari Alexander, PA-C, LMFT
Topics: Healthcare, Meet the IHP Team, Interpersonal Neurobiology
The Future of Advanced Medic Training and Examples of How It's Changing the Healthcare Industry
As the face and future of healthcare rapidly change, so does the role of paramedics. The demand for paramedics in new and advanced fields continues to grow, creating a need for more training than ever before. To meet this need, advanced medic training has become more streamlined and reliant on technology, helping experienced medics take their careers and skills to the next level.