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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...savings for long-term losses. As a single mother, getting my master’s degree was an undertaking in itself. After my third class, my hospital discontinued tuition reimbursement for advanced degrees. So,...
Absalom Jones and Richard Allen have their portraits on the left, and then there is a picture of a police officer knocking on someone's doorFeatureBlack Nurses and the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever EpidemicA tale of a deadly outbreak, inflammatory propaganda and heroism...wasn’t until 1881 that Cuban physician Carlos Finlay, M.D., first hypothesized that the insects could transmit the disease. Maj. Walter Reed, M.D., a U.S. Army surgeon, confirmed that theory through...
Nursing Book ClubThe Perfect Predator: A Scientist Races to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug by Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas PattersonThe dangers of antibiotic resistance...a loss for answers and in no rush to find any and you have all the ingredients for a nightmare. That was exactly the scenario faced by UCSD epidemiologist Steffanie...
Christine Contillo sits at her desk with the phone to her ear smilingFeatureCOVID-19 Contact TracingPart public health nurse, part detective...at Home! I work for the health department in Bergen County, N.J., which recently assigned me to COVID-19 contact tracing. My task is to call county residents who have tested...
CNO Roundtable 2020CNO Reading ListIs there a book on nursing, healthcare or organizational leadership that you enjoyed and would recommend?...Art of Nursing Around the World by Mark and Bonnie Barnes, cofounders of the DAISY Foundation. After losing their son to an autoimmune disease, Mark and Bonnie channeled their grief...

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Two nurses wearing scrubs are hugging and have their arms out as if flexing their muscles.FeatureFLOURISH!Meaningful steps to increase personal resilience and be your best self - even during a pandemic...Certified by the PROPEL Institute, she works with organizations to foster positive workplace culture and improving nursing/staff engagement, retention and patient satisfaction. www.tracecoaching.com JASMIN MORA is a Los Angeles-based illustrator....
A nurse is clicking on a robots screen which shows a heart and EKGNursing & Healthcare NewsArtificially Intelligent, Naturally FlawedArtificially Intelligent, Naturally Flawed...in mind. One example the NAM report cites is a recent PLOS Medicine study in training neural network algorithms to detect pneumonia based on chest X-rays. During the study, the...
Registered Nurse Esperanza Salazar stands smiling with a badge on and St. Francis Medical Center behind herMy SpecialtyInfection Prevention Nursing, Esperanza Salazar, St. Francis Medical CenterCombating outbreaks and hospital-associated infections...challenging when you don’t have the staff power to share those responsibilities. Ultimately, we infection preventionists need to ensure that we don’t lose sight of the patients and the human...
A nurse is smiling seated at a desk and shaking the hand of another nurse who is standing in front of herFeatureImproving Nurse RetentionSix Strategies to Reduce RN Turnover...significant non-financial downsides, such as unit disruption and the loss of institutional knowledge and experience. A 2017 Forbes article noted that Millennials often leave jobs within two to five years....
Nursing Book ClubBlack Death at the Golden Gate by David K. Randall and The Mosquito: A Human History of the Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. WindegardTwo books about the politics of epidemics...and rail traffic up and down the coast. Lives were lost and many careers were ended before it was all over. Randall is an entertaining storyteller who takes dry facts...