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Nursing Book ClubThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie WatsonA vivid memoir soon to become a TV showChristie Watson is an English author who wrote two successful novels before turning to nonfiction with this reflection on her 20-year nursing career. Although I found some of the U.K.-specific details puzzling, she has a lot of meaningful things to say...
Profiles In NursingMary Marvin Wayland (?-1946), Pioneer of Evidence-Based Nursing PracticeStandards of care once depended on where a nurse workedPhoto above: Columbia hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, where Mary Marvin began her career as a nurse in the 1920s. Evidence-based practice is such a fundamental part of today’s nursing vocabulary that it’s hard to believe...
My SpecialtyIntensive Care Unit, Lyrose Ortiz, MLK Community HospitalHelping critical care nurses reach their full potentialLyrose Ortiz, RN, BSN ICU Clinical Unit Night Supervisor MLK Community Hospital, Los Angeles Please tell us about the arc of your nursing career. I received my BSN in 1995. It was my passion. My ultimate goal was to be a heart nurse.  I worked...

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FeatureWired Hospitals: Methodist Hospital of Southern California and Gamification SystemsAn innovative way to collect patient feedback and award nurses for their effortsYour patient rates the care you just provided. Do they think you did well? If so, you’ll get a “PECK.” No, it’s not a kiss on the cheek, but rather an acronym for “Providers Empowered by Compassion and Kindness.” The PECK is the centerpiece...
FeatureNursing Uniforms Through HistoryToday’s scrubs are a long way from the starched gowns and white caps of earlier erasModern scrubs are practical, cheap and easy to care for, but there was something elegant about the nursing uniforms of ages past: long, floor-sweeping skirts; beautifully crisp aprons; neat cuffs; high collars; and of course white nurse’s caps....
Nursing Book ClubThe Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles GraeberA horrifying tale of a nurse turned serial killer, which Stephen King called the best book of the yearAs soon as I picked up The Good Nurse, I knew I’d be in for a roller coaster ride. The paperback edition of a New York Times bestseller first published in 2013, it had a sensational cover photo and a blurb from Stephen King proclaiming it the “best...

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Nursing Book ClubFirst Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings and What I Wish I had Known My First 100 Days on the Job by Barbara Arnoldussen, RN, MBAHelpful Advice for the New NurseI look back on my early years as a nurse as having been really difficult. We still had glass IV bottles and no IV pumps. We mixed our own antibiotics. Patient/nurse ratios back then would probably be illegal now. We often rotated all three shifts each...
Profiles In NursingLillian Brunner (1918-2016), Author of the “Brunner Bible” TextbookNursing students remember their Brunner BibleDo you remember your “Brunner Bible”? Perhaps you still reflect fondly on its value as a sleep aid or as part of your strength-training regimen. Maybe you still refer back to this essential textbook for detailed information about disease processes...
FeatureWired Hospitals: UCLA Medical Center and High-Fidelity ManikinsLights! Camera! Action! Septic Shock?It was bloody. The first big simulation Kenneth M. Miller, RN, MSN, CCRN, CHSE, ran as nursing simulation program coordinator at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was a hemorrhagic splenectomy in the operating room. He did everything he could to make it...

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