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Patient is sitting on a chair with his hand up. Nurse is using a vein finder on his hand and trying to stick in an IV.FeatureWired Hospital: Vein Illumination at Torrance Memorial HospitalNeedle sticks made quick...textbook. Sound like science fiction? It’s now a reality at hospitals like Torrance Memorial Medical Center, thanks to new vein illumination technology. On The Beam Several companies now offer vein...
Nursing Book ClubThe Winter Station: A Novel by Jody ShieldsA fictional tale set during the Great Manchurian Plague of 1910...began to find bodies in the snow. Fictional Characters in a Real Historical Epidemic Shields’ protagonist is the Russian chief medical examiner, Rozher Alexandrovich von Budberg, a Russian aristocrat married...
Registered Nurse Babasi Maradkel stands in a hallway with a white coat on. She is holding a clipboard and smiling, while talking to other staff members.My SpecialtyClinical Navigator, Babasi Maradkel, Henry MayoA new role that combines leadership, mentorship and education...University in 2009. I did my last clinical rotation at Keck Medical Center of USC, where I precepted in a medical-surgical ICU. I knew I had found my passion, so...
Nursing Book ClubBad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information by Paul A. Offit, M.D.Fighting antivaxxer conspiracy theory with science...already know Offit’s name. He’s a staunch vaccine advocate who has been interviewed by most of the well-known television and radio hosts. The director of the Vaccine Education Center at...
Three nurses are talking. Two are in scrubs and one is in casual attire.FeatureChart Your Career CourseHow to find your passion and follow it through...degree in nursing, I took a job as a medical/surgical nurse on the night shift at a local hospital. It was there that I discovered a passion for caring for...

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Nursing Book ClubThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie WatsonA vivid memoir soon to become a TV show...She ended her nursing career as a pediatric resuscitation specialist, a role that combines attendance of medical emergencies and cardiac arrests with in-house teaching across all departments. For someone who...
Registered Nurse Lyrose Ortiz stands smiling in blue scrubs, arms resting on a counter.My SpecialtyIntensive Care Unit, Lyrose Ortiz, MLK Community HospitalHelping critical care nurses reach their full potential...It was my passion. My ultimate goal was to be a heart nurse. I worked medical-surgical telemetry and then worked my way up to ICU. After a great deal of...
A patient sits upright in a hospital bed talking to a nurse in scrubs at the bedside. The nurse is using a tabletFeatureWired Hospitals: Methodist Hospital of Southern California and Gamification SystemsAn innovative way to collect patient feedback and award nurses for their efforts...an acronym for “Providers Empowered by Compassion and Kindness.” The PECK is the centerpiece of a staff recognition gamification system called Wambi, after an East Asian bird that also appears...
Nursing Book ClubThe Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles GraeberA horrifying tale of a nurse turned serial killer, which Stephen King called the best book of the year...nurse from 1987 to 2003, had deliberately killed dozens — maybe hundreds — of his patients. These were not simply medical errors or even negligence. Cullen methodically selected his victims...
Nursing Book ClubFirst Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings and What I Wish I had Known My First 100 Days on the Job by Barbara Arnoldussen, RN, MBAHelpful Advice for the New Nurse...Are you going to work at a teaching institution? If so, this book has suggestions on how to deal with medical residents and the ground rules for calling attending physicians...