Rachel Fratzke led her Mercy Iowa City nursing staff in a meditation session to start the work day Monday morning. A nurse manager, she had the nurses do deep breathing exercises and think about when they first wanted to be a nurse, or how they felt about passing their certifying board exams. The session was […]
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Iowans on the asexual spectrum face misconceptions, lack of visibility
By Alyssa Craven for IowaWatch Growing up, Noelie Boardman felt like there was something different about her. “As I hit puberty, I noticed a lot of people around me were getting into relationships and talking about sex, especially in high school,” Boardman, a 2021 Simpson College graduate, said. “That was just never a thing I […]
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Amid protests and change, Iowa police training on implicit bias varies
By Danielle Gehr, IowaWatch In 2015, the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy lacked training on implicit bias. As a cadet there then, Natasha Greene sought discussions on her own about some of the mistaken beliefs officers might hold of others, such as expecting a black person to be dangerous or more crime prone from stereotypes, ideas […]
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Mental health care providers in flood-stricken rural areas are short-handed, but expecting more demand
Iowa does not have enough psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists or other mental health care providers to handle an increasing need to care for farmers dealing with relentless flooding this year, several mental health experts IowaWatch interviewed warned.
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Iowa’s newest college graduates share an old problem: debt
By K. Rambo, IowaWatch Some students graduating from an Iowa college or university this month will have to pay off debts that could be close to $100,000. Other loans facing college students are far lower, and a lot of students have avoided debt. But for many, taking out loans remains necessary in order to go […]
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Community forum on meth addiction to feature documentary produced by UI Alum Katie Kuntz
IowaWatch will stop the Iowa City Public Library’s Meeting Room A this Thursday at 3:30 p.m. to screen Breaking the Cycle: Meth Addiction in the Heartland, a new…
