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Nursing Book ClubInferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine ChoA troubling account of postpartum psychosisWho we are is not only a product of our DNA, as we all know. Our culture and the sum of our individual experiences also help to make us into the adults we become. We ignore this at our own peril, as author Catherine Cho reveals in her postpartum memoir,...
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...

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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....
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...
Movie & 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, inspired Jennifer Worth to memorialize her years as a nurse...

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