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Profiles in NursingMartha Ballard (1735-1812), Colonial Midwife and DiaristHer 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....
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...

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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...
Profiles in NursingJennifer Worth, RGN, NM (1935-2011) and Call the MidwifeHer charming memoir became a 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, inspired Jennifer Worth to memorialize her years as a nurse...