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A picture of a pink building on the left and a photo of Christiane Reimann on the rightProfiles In NursingChristiane Reimann (1888-1979) and the International Council of NursesThis headstrong heiress was a realistic visionaryA quick review of nursing history reveals that many of our forebears were formidable personalities. No one liked to cross Florence Nightingale or Dorothea Dix, and the same could certainly be...
Cicely Saunders bends over to talk to her older, female patient lying in a hospital bedProfiles In NursingCicely Saunders, Founder of Modern Hospice CareCicely Saunders created Palliative careAlthough she was a nurse for only a short time, Cicely Saunders devoted her life to serving patients in their final days. Her work transformed our understanding of palliative care,...
Multiple nurses stand around a patient in a bed. They are wearing white dresses and nursing capsProfiles In NursingMarian Alford (1905-1989), Nurse OrganizerTaking action to improve conditions for nursesHard work, low pay. In 1966, nurses earned an average of $5,200 year (about $38,000 today). Low wages and poor working conditions led to a controversial strike of nurses in California that...
On the left is Jennifer Worth in a nurse's uniform and hat looking up, on the right is a nurse holding a baby in Call the MidwifeMovie & TV NursesJennifer Worth (1935-2011) and “Call the Midwife”Her experience in ‘50s and ‘60s London became a bestselling memoir and popular BBC TV seriesA throwaway line in a 1998 article in the Midwives Journal, suggesting that someone ought to do for midwives what James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small had done for veterinarians,...
Five nurses in different scrubs stand next to each other smilingFeatureSix Ways to Improve Collaboration on Nursing TeamsThe goal is to overcome obstaclesIs your unit made up of soloists who’d rather not join the choir? Not only is that lack of collaboration frustrating, it can negatively impact everyone involved — including the patients...