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Nursing & Healthcare NewsDietary SupplementsNew advisory list steers consumers away from certain ingredients...ingredients. Introducing “The List” Back in February, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced that his agency would be taking steps to tighten federal regulation of dietary supplements. By Gottlieb’s estimates,...
Old medical images of people with measles. This shows different body parts with red rashesFeatureA Brief History of Measles and Its VaccinesWhy the "wildfire disease" still remains a serious global threat...M.D.; Milan V. Milovanovic, M.D.; and technician Ann Holloway, were able to develop an attenuated (weakened) virus, the Edmonston B strain. Clinical trials soon demonstrated that this attenuated measles virus...
Two nurses are standing by a window. One nurse is comforting the other, who looks like she is exhaustedFeatureWhen the Nurse is an Addict: Part TwoHow to recognize the signs and intervene when your colleague may be under the influence...“You’re acting bizarre,” she announced at the end of a night shift, with our coworkers milling around. My stomach twisted at the sound of her words and I choked on...
Men In Nursing 2020Men in Nursing 2020Called to the Front Lines During a Pandemic...get tough, nurses get tougher. For Working Nurse’s annual focus on Men in Nursing, we asked 25 nurses across Southern California to share their biggest coronavirus challenges, the inspiring moments...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsPurdue to Pay the Piper?Pharma giant agrees to accept criminal liability for opioid marketing...week before the federal settlement agreement was publicly announced, 24 state attorneys general, including Healey and California A.G. Xavier Becerra, sent DOJ a strongly worded letter of protest, saying the...

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Two nurses in business attire are sitting and smiling in front of a sign for the California ANA OrganizationFeatureWhat Now for California Nursing Organizations?With conferences and face-to-face networking events on hold, professional groups are redefining their mission...a big annual event that brings hundreds of nurses to Sacramento each year to meet with elected officials and discuss nursing issues — something that clearly wasn’t going to happen...
Mary Mahoney on the left in a dress and cap. On the right, a picture of a large houseProfiles In NursingMary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), America’s First Professionally Trained Black NurseThe daughter of enslaved people, Mahoney distinguished herself as a nurse...for the many Black nurses who followed her. Mahoney died of breast cancer in January 1926. Ten years later, the NACGN established an annual award in her name, which has...
Illustration of a myriad of people in different colored shirts wearing masks and looking aroundFeatureMaking COVID-19 CountHow nurses can use this crisis as a catalyst for change...the Nurse and Midwife, in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth and in recognition of “nurses’ vital role in transforming healthcare around the world. As we commemorated...
Sister Kenny wearing a habit looking away from the cameraProfiles In NursingSister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952), Controversial Australian Polio Treatment ReformerWas this controversial Australian nurse a hero or a hoax?...Australia in 1951. She died on Nov. 30, 1952, only months before Jonas Salk, M.D., announced his development of the polio vaccine. Intuition or Science? Sister Kenny’s success in promoting...
A picture of the white Relief ship that is on a dark blue ocean with a gray sky in the backgroundFeatureNursing Aboard Hospital Ship USS Relief, 1917-1946Attacking a hospital ship was a war crime, but in 1945, the USS COMFORT was hit by a Japanese kamikaze pilot...sides fighting overhead. “When we stopped retiring out to sea at night all lit up, we could stay where we were anchored, ready to pick up casualties,” recalled Capt. Ann...