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Nursing & Healthcare NewsMaternal Mortality and RaceS.B. 464 takes aim at implicit bias...Nurse-Midwives Association. You can learn more about the bill at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. Editor’s Note: S.B.464 subsequently passed both houses of the Legislature and was signed into law on Oct. 7, 2019...
Registered Nurse Robin Krasner wears red scrubs and is standing and smiling in front of a gray backgroundMy SpecialtyClinical Improvement, Robin Krasner, Keck Medical Center of USCEvaluating processes to improve care delivery...of manufacturing [Editor’s note: It was first developed in the 1930s by Toyota!], but it can be used in many different industries. By observing the patient journey, we discovered that...
Two photos of Col Ruby Bradley in her military uniform.Profiles In NursingCol. Ruby Bradley (1907-2002), Army Nurse and Angel of Bataan POWA highly-decorated veteran, she survived four years as a Japanese POW...Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, where she joined other U.S. Army and Navy nurse captives. [Editor’s note: You can read more about them in Elizabeth Haninik’s 2018 feature, “Angels 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...& Premiers & make them think they were having their own way,” she wrote. “Catch me allowing any public official to treat me as ‘putty’ however soft my outer crust...
Nursing Book ClubDopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth MacyAn origin story for the opioid crisis...America by Beth Macy (Little, Brown & Co., 2018) Editor’s Note: Hulu has adapted Dopesick as an eight-episode miniseries, which will air in 2021 Christine Contillo, RN, BSN, PHN, is...

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Picture of registered nurse Marthe Cohn on the left, the cover of the book in the center, and then a few photos of clips of the movie on the rightFeatureA Sixth Sense for Danger: The Marthe Hoffnung Cohn StoryA Jewish nurse spying in Nazi Germany...her adversaries and triumph against all odds. ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN, is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based nursing experience. Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Hanink is...
Nursing Book ClubBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John CarryrouWhen a revolutionary medical innovation proves too good to be trueI had read a little bit last year about the controversy surrounding the biotech company Theranos, but it wasn’t until Working Nurse Editor-in-Chief Catherine Rhodes told me that everyone she...
Mother Angela in a habit sits stoically looking at the cameraProfiles In NursingMother Mary of St. Angela (1824-1887), Civil War Hospital AdministratorMother Angela stepped up to care for Union soldiers during the Civil War...publisher, a textbook writer and an organizer of charitable causes. Her unwavering commitment to any project she started — especially educational opportunities for women — enriched both her congregation and...
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...another opportunity: becoming editor for a series of professional nursing journals. After some years of working as both a nurse practitioner and a journals editor, I was promoted to chief...
Nursing Book ClubThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie WatsonA vivid memoir soon to become a TV show...audience — Chatto & Windus published the book in the U.K. in May 2018 — I occasionally found myself with questions the text doesn’t answer. For instance, I don’t know...