Print Issue: January/February 2022

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Nikki Kean

February 23, 2022

Nikki Kean describes being infected twice with COVID-19, once at Thanksgiving and once at Christmas, and the moral injury facing health care workers in these trying times.

COPD Information Center

Diagnosis and Staging of COPD by PCPs

Shannon Harris, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CCRN

Lori Prewitt Moore, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, CHSE

February 23, 2022

Using the GOLD standards for COPD staging will identify high-risk patients, improve delivery of care, and reduce health care costs.

Gastroenterology Information Center

Community-Acquired Clostridioides difficile Cases in Children on the Rise

Heather Adams, MPAS, PA-C

Elizabeth Nguyen, PA-S

February 23, 2022

An increase in pediatric cases of C difficile is linked to use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, recurrent infections, and a growth in highly virulent strains.