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Nursing & Healthcare NewsMildest Flu Season on RecordMasks and social distancing pay offIf you’re tired of masks and social distancing, you can take heart in knowing that they’ve saved lives, and not just from COVID-19. Those precautions also gave us the mildest flu season ever recorded in the U.S. Influenza Hospitalizations Hit New...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsCan You Get COVID-19 if You’re Fully Vaccinated?The risk of breakthrough infection is extremely lowAlthough the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective, there’ve still been some reports of post-vaccination “breakthrough infections.” Here’s what you need to know. Running the Numbers “Breakthrough infections” are new infections occurring...
Profiles In NursingHelen Fairchild (1885-1914), Witness to the Horrors of WWI Poison Gas AttacksWhy chemical weapons were banned by the Geneva ConventionOriginally from a small town in Pennsylvania, Helen Fairchild later became the first American nurse to die in service during World War I, a casualty of that war’s most horrifying weapon: poison gas. The Pennsylvania 64 Helen Fairchild was 26 years old...

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Nursing & Healthcare NewsPromoting Vaccination ConfidenceNurses can help build public trust in the fight against COVID-19Nurses are the most trusted profession in the country. Your efforts can go a long way toward encouraging the public to get vaccinated — and fighting antivaxx propaganda. Conspiracies and Setbacks As of press time, more than 140 million Americans have...
Nursing Book ClubA Good Time to Be Born by Perri KlassRevisiting the birth of pediatric medicineI once heard Oprah Winfrey say that American women are “the luckiest girls on the planet.” Perri Klass, M.D., pediatrician and author of A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, would argue that timing is a major...
Healthy WorkforceCreating Thoughtful ZonesKeeping conflicts away from patient care areasIf you’ve been a nurse for awhile, you are familiar with the ways some of us mistreat each other. The old eat their young; nurses get thrown under the bus in front of others; the day shift battles with the night shift; and nurses dread hearing that they...

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CNO Roundtable 2021Chief Nursing Officer Roundtable 2021Turning the corner on the pandemicAfter a year of tragedy and hard lessons, the arrival of three COVID-19 vaccines brought much-needed hope that the end of pandemic may be in sight. Hosting a CNO Roundtable is a tradition for our May Nurses Week issue. This year, 18 chief nursing...
CNO Roundtable 2021Coping With StressWe asked our CNO panelists to share what they’ve done to manage the pressures of the past year. Here are their insights and strategies. Raye Burkhardt Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center Working on my relationship with myself has been the key...
CNO Roundtable 2021The Post-Pandemic WorldQ: What are you most excited about doing again, both personally and professionally, when this is all over?­Karen A. Grimley UCLA Health & UCLA School of Nursing I hope we continue to push for change. Trying to maintain the status quo is crippling — let’s challenge ourselves to make the changes we’ve always dreamed about, not only for...

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