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A group of female nurses in dresses and caps are smoking togetherFeatureWhen Nurses Smoked in HospitalsIn years past, there was an ashtray on every patient nightstand, nurses lit up in break rooms, and doctors and nurses were featured in cigarette adsAn attractive young woman in a crisp, white vintage nurse’s uniform and cap smiles up at the reader, dangling a lit cigarette between her fingers. Printed above her is a boldface slogan:...
On the left, a photo of the characters from ER holding each other, the middle is on a couple getting married with a rose on top of the photo, and the third is a couple sitting in a hospital bed holding each otherFeatureHospital RomanceIn pop culture, nurses find love, marriage and passion at work. Here is the real story.SCENE: After resuscitating a car crash victim, handsome doctor Doug Ross (George Clooney) and attractive head nurse Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) embrace — and soon find themselves...
Two nurses are smiling in casual clothing around microphones. Both are wearing headphones.FeatureNursing PodcastsWant to join the audio revolution? Put in your earbuds and listen or grab the mic and broadcast your ownPodcasting is one of the hottest trends in entertainment today. About one in four Americans over the age of 12 now listens to podcasts. That number continues to climb: By 2021, some...
Panic in the Streets movie poster with a nurse in white scrubs talking to Clinton Reed on the rightMovie & TV Nurses“Panic in the Streets” Movie ReviewA deadly plague is the real villain of this 1950 noir thrillerI usually only review books for Working Nurse, but the editors recently suggested I review Panic in the Streets, a classic film noir directed by Elia Kazan, released by 20th Century Fox in...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Nurses of Ward 5BDocumentary about pioneering San Francisco AIDS unitThirty-six years ago, nurses in San Francisco established the country’s first specialized AIDS unit. A new documentary film, 5B, tells their story. The First Step When nurses at San...

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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...
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...
Nathalie Bucknall is looking at the camera while holding papers in her right handProfiles In NursingNathalie Bucknall (1895–1959), Russian Nurse, Spy, and Hollywood Movie ExecutiveFrom the "Women's Battalion of Death" to WWII espionage to MGM Studios — this nurse led a life of adventureIn this era of credentials and degrees, we sometimes forget that throughout much of history, nursing was a more informal, transitory occupation. Often, particularly during wartime, the...
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,...