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My SpecialtyLabor & Delivery, Terri Smith, Huntington HospitalLeading the Family Birth Center on the night shiftTerri Smith, RNC Patient Flow Coordinator, Inpatient Obstetrics Huntington Hospital Pasadena Tell us about the arc of your nursing career journey and how you landed where you are now. My journey really began during the birth of my first baby. Having...
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...
Profiles in NursingMartha Ballard (1735-1812), Colonial Midwife and DiaristHer remarkable diary reveals a legacy of nursing in 18th century AmericaShe lived and died before Florence Nightingale was even born, but Martha Ballard’s diary still survives, providing us with a remarkable record of the lives of pioneer women and the practice of midwifery during the earliest years of the United States....

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My SpecialtyDirector of Perioperative, Infusion and Specialty Services, Bonita Aceto, Redlands Community HospitalCaring for surgical patients at their most vulnerablePlease describe the trajectory of your nursing career. I’ve been a nurse for 30 years — I received my ADN and became an RN in 1989. I came to nursing with eight years as an OR scrub tech under my belt. After graduating from nursing school and...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsMaternal Mortality and RaceS.B. 464 takes aim at implicit biasTackling what she calls a “profound injustice,” State Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-30) has introduced S.B. 464, the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act, which is intended to address persistent racial and ethnic disparities in...
My SpecialtyClinical Nurse Specialist/Educator, Senene Owen, Methodist Hospital of Southern CaliforniaCaring for high-acuity infant patientsPlease tell us about the arc of your nursing career. Before I earned my nursing degree, I worked at several different homes, caring for severely handicapped infants and children with special needs. That work had a great impact on my life and goals.  In...

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