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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...for a time as a consultant for a hospital in Santo Domingo, helping them prepare for Joint Commission International accreditation. It was a wonderful and challenging experience, since even the...
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...establish a small camp hospital. It soon became an obstetrical ward and nursery, where Bradley and Chambers helped to deliver 13 babies. In September, Bradley was transferred to the Santo...
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...a Wisconsin sanitarium in February 1928. Although the specific anesthetic techniques Magaw used are now long obsolete, her thorough professionalism decisively established that nurses could safely and effectively administer surgical...
Three nursing leaders. Left to right, a woman smiling at the camera, a man standing at a podium, and a woman speaking to a crowdNursing & Healthcare NewsNursing Organizations Speak Out on Gun ViolenceANA, AANP, ENA issue statements...firearm-related injuries.” Bipartisan Background Checks Act Grant and Howard both called upon the Senate to pass H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, which passed the House 227–190...
Registered Nurse Nohemy Sam wears a white coat and badge. She is standing and smiling with the hall of her unit behind her.My SpecialtyWound Care, Nohemy Sam, San Antonio Regional HospitalAddressing hard-to-treat or non-healing woundsNohemy Sam, RN, BSN, CWOCN Wound Care Nurse Manager San Antonio Regional Hospital Please tell us about the trajectory of your nursing career. The first nine years of my healthcare...

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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...after graduation, I applied for the RN Versant program at Keck Medical Center and soon after began working in the medical-surgical ICU. When I moved to Santa Clarita after seven...
Mildred Dalton wearing a military uniform and hat, sits smiling towards the cameraProfiles In NursingMildred Dalton Manning (1914-2013), WWII POW and the “Last Angel”She joined the Army to see the world...in their army.” For the next three years, her home and workplace would be a crowded prison camp on the University of Santo Tomás campus. Even in the beginning, when...
Three nurses in military uniforms stand around a sign that states "Nurses Quarters"FeatureAngels in Hell: The Nurse POWs of Bataan and CorregidorThe surrender of U.S. forces in the Philippines was only the beginning of the ordeal for these brave nurses...the campus of Manila’s Santo Tomás University. Many of the internees were civilians, some of them children. The Santo Tomás Internment Camp, which stretched 10 blocks long and eight blocks...
The Columbia building in Los Angeles - an old beige building with columnsProfiles In NursingMary Marvin Wayland (?-1946), Pioneer of Evidence-Based Nursing PracticeStandards of care once depended on where a nurse worked...widely used throughout the U.S. and abroad. After her marriage in 1930 to Charles Wayland, Marvin moved back to California, living in San Jose, Sierra Madre and later in Long...
Different polaroid photos sit on top of each other depicting nurses in different uniforms, shows, and capsFeatureNursing Uniforms Through HistoryToday’s scrubs are a long way from the starched gowns and white caps of earlier eras...Sani-White or snow-white Shu-Milk shoe polish? Chlorine bleach or peroxide for the laces? Today’s colorful clogs and Crocs were far in the future and would have been unacceptable in most...