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A nurse in scrubs is sitting on the hospital floor with her arms on her knees and her head in her hands.FeatureHazardous HabitsHow shortcuts and workarounds become the dangerous new normal...wonder. A sobering recent example was the February 2019 indictment of Tennessee RN RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was charged with reckless...
Nurse Keith Carlson stands at a podium in front of the Supreme CourtFeatureAt the PodiumHow I learned to calm the butterflies and deliver an engaging speech...the last seven years, I’ve spoken at national and regional conferences, presented workshops and had a thoroughly good time meeting many incredible nurses throughout the United States. In California, I’ve...
Nursing Book ClubInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love by Dani ShapiroDNA testing unearths family secrets...A. Knopf, 2019) Christine Contillo, RN, BSN, PHN, is a public health nurse with more than 40 years of experience, ranging from infants to geriatrics. She enjoys volunteering for medical...
Alice Magaw working with doctors to take care of a patient. They are all wearing white gowns and head covers with masks onProfiles In NursingAlice Magaw Kessel (1860-1928), Pioneering Nurse AnesthetistShe performed 14,380 procedures with no fatalities...patients. As a nurse, Magaw could not submit her findings directly to medical journals, but she later received invitations to lecture before local medical societies, which gave her the opportunity...
Nursing Book ClubAdvice for Future Corpses: A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie TisdaleTaking direct aim at a taboo topic...emotions may be, as well as the tougher questions of who can help, who cannot and what happens to families when one member has challenging medical needs and not everyone...

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Registered Nurse Anita Karra is wearing a white coat and smiling towards the camera with a patient room behind her.My SpecialtyClinical Research Nursing, Anita Karra, City of HopeGathering data and managing patients enrolled in clinical trials...Clinic at the NIH Clinical Center; the Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; Virginia Cancer Specialists; and then City of Hope. Where did your interest in...
Picture of Grace Neill smiling on the left, and a group of women in white gowns posing together on the rightProfiles In NursingElizabeth Grace Neill (1846-1926), a Crusader for Nursing RegistrationThis social reformer also founded midwife-run maternity hospitals...Twiddle Ministers & Premiers” As an inspector, Neill often visited industrial centers across New Zealand. She felt useful in that capacity because she believed, probably rightly, that women workers were...
Nursing Book ClubSick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourPortrait of a difficult patient...with!) Biting the Hand That Feeds In her search for the cause of her chronic pain, Khakpour laments that she has never been taken seriously by the medical profession. She...
Registered Nurse Karla Marshall stands smiling in a blouse and sweater with her badge on, and a coworker on the computer behind her.My SpecialtySame Day Surgery, Karla Marshall, Huntington HospitalBridging the gap between ambulatory and extended stay surgical care...care centers being built across our country to serve patients whose surgeries should not require overnight hospital care. Our same day surgery unit differs from ambulatory care centers in that...
Different picture of the nursing handoff game, with nurses standing all around a stageFeatureThe Patient Handoff GameFor smoother report and fewer communication glitches, borrow team exercises from improv theater...set of techniques known as medical improv. As the name implies, medical improv takes its cues from improvisational theater. I’ve been integrating improv activities into workshops since 2012 and have...