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Multiple nurses in scrubs are huddled around a computer and are talking to each otherMy SpecialtyIntensive Care Unit, Ana Campos, Redlands Community HospitalCaring for critically ill patients from birth through end of life Ana Campos, RN, BSN, CCRN ICU Manager Redlands Community Hospital Please share the arc of your nursing career with us. I have been a nurse for 45 years. I studied nursing in Peru and...
Older nurse stands looking down with her hand on her face. She is wearing light blue scrubs and a stethoscope.Nursing & Healthcare NewsCalifornia “Silver Wave” Nursing ShortageUCSF report warns of current shortfall driven by retirement of older RNsThe long-predicted “Silver Wave” of nurse retirements — and shortages — is finally hitting California. A recent report estimates that the state’s demand for registered nurses...
Paxlovid bottle lays on a blue counter and pills are scattered around.Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Pfizer COVID-19 Treatment PillFDA authorizes emergency use of oral antiviral therapeuticYou’ve probably already heard about Paxlovid, the oral antiviral drug that recently received FDA authorization for emergency use in treating COVID-19. Here’s what nurses should know about...
Nursing Book ClubLightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. StandeferThe ethical toll of high-tech medicineLightning flowers are the tendrils of pink skin tissue left behind when an individual is struck by lightning. Once author Katherine Standefer heard this term, she wondered if she might have...
A Nurse in scrubs yelling with a finger pointedHealthy WorkforceThe Profanity ProblemWhen your seasoned nurses' language is a little too saltyYou’re the charge nurse on a busy labor & delivery unit. Although you like your role, you cringe any time Sandra is working. Sandra is quick to anger if she doesn’t like her...

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Nursing Book ClubThe Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women — and Women to Medicine by Janice P NimuraWe've come so farIt’s interesting to wonder what really motivates people, especially important historical figures. In her new book, The Doctors Blackwell, author Janice P. Nimura delves into the lives of...
A red and black mosquito sits on someone's skin.Nursing & Healthcare NewsMalaria VaccineHistoric breakthrough in immunization scienceFor the first time in history, a vaccine effective against a parasitic infection is ready for real-world deployment. The World Health Organization (WHO) is now recommending widespread use of...
Several nurses and doctors are operating on a patient. They are wearing sterile gowns.Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Surgical Smoke ProblemAORN to petition OSHA for national standardsCOVID-19 isn’t the only airborne threat facing hospital staffs: The smoke generated by modern surgical equipment remains a serious health hazard for both OR teams and patients. Many...
Nursing student in isolation gown and mask is listening with stethoscope to a male simulation patientNursing & Healthcare NewsNursing School Numbers UpApplications and enrollment rose in 2020–21 despite the pandemicWe’ve been hearing for months that the pandemic could lead to massive nursing attrition, but recent data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) shows that nursing...
Men In Nursing 2021Men in Nursing 2021: Building the Super-NurseWhat superpowers should a nurse have?We asked our Men in Nursing participants: What extraordinary powers should a Super-Nurse have? Here are their answers. Alex Aguilar, RN, MSN, PHN, CEN, Adventist Health White Memorial...