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Bernice Coleman and Harriet Aranow stand side by side in white coats smilingFeatureSolving Problems with the Cedars-Sinai Nursing Research TeamHelping frail older adults retain their independenceThe Nursing Research Department at Cedars-Sinai has a foot in both worlds: We support quality improvement efforts within our health system while also conducting research projects aimed at...
Illustration of three nurses in scrubs smiling and wrapping their arms around one anotherFeatureA Kindness Revolution!Seven Ways to Build Happier and Healthier Nursing TeamsThe past few years have been the most stressful and challenging in most of our lifetimes. When COVID-19 hit, healthcare teams were called upon to save the world, and they did. But external...
Andrew Tran wearing flight nursing uniform stands next to a gurney in front of a helicopterMy SpecialtyFaculty/Flight Nurse, Andrew Tran, West Coast UniversityUsing innovative technology to educate students during COVID-19Andrew Tran, RN, FNP-C Flight Nurse and Alumni/Faculty West Coast University Nursing Department, Ontario What has your nursing career trajectory been like? I entered nursing as an LVN...
Two nurses are standing by a window. One nurse is comforting the other, who looks like she is exhaustedFeatureWhen the Nurse is an Addict: Part TwoHow to recognize the signs and intervene when your colleague may be under the influenceIn many workplaces, they’re spoken of only in whispered breakroom gossip and terse, cryptic warnings from management — staff nurses who’ve been accused of drug diversion, been caught...
Men In Nursing 2020Peter Abbott, Medical-Surgical, San Gorgonio Memorial HospitalLooking back on this year, what have been the biggest changes in your practice? Having to always wear PPE changes how we interact with patients. It’s hard when I cannot see their...

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A nurse looks overwhelmed in scrubs, gloves, and a mask. She has her hands up as if preventing someone from hitting herFeatureCombatting Workplace ViolenceAttacks against nurses are not just part of the jobEven before the outbreak of COVID-19, some nurses felt that walking into work every day posed a threat to their health and safety. More Dangerous Than Policing Statistics from the federal...
Tran Chu wearing scrubs and smiling while standing in front of a hallwayMy SpecialtyCorrectional Nursing, Tran Chu, Arrowhead Regional Medical CenterSafely providing care and advocacy for county jail inmatesTran Chu, RN, BSN Assistant Unit Manager I / Charge Nurse Med-Surg/Telemetry/Correctional Floor Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton Please share the story of your nursing career....
A nurse in scrubs, mask, goggles, and gloves is leaning against her hand looking tiredFeatureKeep Your Cool or Burn OutStrategies to Help Nurses Cope With COVID-19 StressWorking in a hospital setting may fill us with the sense that we are battling an invisible enemy, and every code is a tug-of-war against the dark side. The COVID-19 pandemic has made those...
Registered Nurse Roosevelt Davis in scrubs is smiling while holding a piece of equipmentMy SpecialtyPediatric CICU, Roosevelt Davis, Children’s Hospital of Orange CountyFrom the football field to bedside nursingRoosevelt Davis, RN, MSN Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Children’s Hospital of Orange County You had a very unusual and fascinating path to a nursing career. What were you...
Registered Nurse Kristina Lawrence wearing scrubs and a white coat stands smiling with her unit in the backgroundMy SpecialtyIntensive Care Unit, Kristina Lawrence, Valley Presbyterian HospitalRising to the challenge of the new normal in the age of COVID-19Kristina Lawrence, RN, BSN, CCRN, CVRN-BC, WCC Clinical Nurse Manager, ICU Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Van Nuys Please tell us about the trajectory of your nursing career My grandmother...