Chief Assistant Attorney General of the Florida Board of Medicine

Sandra Amador, ARNP, Medical Surgical Nurse with Baptist Hospital of Miami, explains nosocomial infections are the infections acquired in the hospital setting. She says for the nursing staff, and for the healthcare team, it is very important to have a designated person to take decisions if the patient is not able to do it if […]

Hematology Nurse Practitioner, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Maya Bloomberg is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in non-malignant hematology. Her main area of expertise is in bleeding disorder (i.e. Hemophilia, Von Willebrand Disease) and Sickle Cell Anemia, which has shed light on the significant health and racial disparities that exist in modern medicine. 

A crisis intervention team assesses more formally a patient who has depression problems. This team is composed of psychiatrists and primary care doctors. Primary care physicians get the best type of assessments from mental health professionals for depression patients, explains Dr. Melissa Franco, Family Medicine Physician with Baptist Health Primary Care. Yanira Ruidiaz, Social Worker […]