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Healthy Workforce10 Qualities of a Superstar NurseThese characteristics separate the truly great from the “just getting by”When I was a new nurse, I wanted to be just like Marianne. She was my role model for what it meant to be a nurse: caring, compassionate, and clinically excellent — I watched her grab the crash cart and defibrillate patients numerous times, in awe of her...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsTaking Aim at COVID-19 MisinformationCalifornia physicians may face disciplinary actionAs of January 1, a new state law means that medical providers who spread misinformation about COVID-19 may be subject to disciplinary action against their licenses. Fighting Falsehoods According to research by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 78 percent of...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsQ&A with Jennifer Mensik KennedyThe new ANA president on the nursing workforce, telehealth, and health equityOn January 1, Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, RN, Ph.D., MBA, NEA-BC, FAAN, began her two-year tenure as president of the American Nurses Association. Working Nurse asked Kennedy for her thoughts on three current issues facing nursing. Q: COVID-19 has...

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Nursing Book ClubThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanA Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Back in 1997, Anne Fadiman wrote The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, documenting the experience of a Hmong family in Merced, Calif., 10 years earlier. The book, which won the National Book Critics Award, was a wake-up call on the need for cultural...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsNurse Detectives at WorkInvestigating maternal mortalityEach year, hundreds of new mothers die within 12 months of giving birth. The nurses and other practitioners on the CDC’s multidisciplinary mortality review committees seek to better understand why. Health Equity Failings While infant mortality rates...
FeatureNursing InformaticsExploring career paths in a high-demand specialty“Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.” — American...

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Nursing Book ClubHer Hidden Genius by Marie BenedictThis historical novel looks at the dark side of the discovery of DNAJames Watson won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. He maintained the answer to the puzzle came to him in a dream in 1953. Her Hidden Genius, a novel by Marie Benedict, tells a different story Her Hidden Genius is...
Profiles In NursingNursing in the Wild WestThe true tales of Calamity Jane and Nellie CashmanIt may be difficult to believe today, but there was a time when nurses suffered a dubious reputation. While the nuns who founded nursing orders and hospitals were seen as ministering angels, lay nursing was seldom considered a respectable profession, and...
My SpecialtyHematology/Oncology, Devon Ballentine, UCLA Santa MonicaUsing new therapies and clinical collaboration to help patients fight cancerDevon Ballentine, RN, BSN Clinical Nurse II, Charge Nurse AMN Hematology/Oncology Unit UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center Please share with us a little about your career. I joined UCLA Health as a new grad. I’ve been with this great organization...

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