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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...to publish her work. Her first article, an 1899 piece in The Northwestern Lancet, recapped her recent lecture to the Olmsted County Medical Society. In all, she would publish six...
Nursing Book ClubAdvice for Future Corpses: A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie TisdaleTaking direct aim at a taboo topic...Tisdale is an Oregon-based nurse practitioner who has worked in hospice and oncology. She has had a life-long familiarity with death. Her interest began in childhood with the loss of...
Illustration of a nurse in scrubs sitting on a swivel chair while another nurse stands looking at her with arms on her hipsHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Territorial TyrantWhen a nurse lays claim to a particular chair or piece of equipment...Workforce Institute. As a speaker, author and consultant, her goal is to eradicate nurse bullying and incivility.   JASMIN MORA is a Los Angeles-based illustrator. Reach her at www.jasminmora.com.  ...
Nursing Book ClubSick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourPortrait of a difficult patient...the Los Angeles Times. She’s had a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and taught at Ivy League schools. All this is to say that her writing has been well-received...
Illustration of a nurse being grabbed by the wrist by another nurse, and throwing her clipboard in the airHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Bad Day BullyAn isolated harsh incident should be judged in context...Healthy Workforce Institute. As a speaker, author and consultant, her goal is to eradicate nurse bullying and incivility.   JASMIN MORA is a Los Angeles-based illustrator. Reach her at www.jasminmora.com....

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Different picture of the nursing handoff game, with nurses standing all around a stageFeatureThe Patient Handoff GameFor smoother report and fewer communication glitches, borrow team exercises from improv theaterYou’re a bedside nurse, so handoffs are part of your daily routine. Most of the time, they’re just that — routine. Sometimes, though, important details get lost in translation. Consider...
Registered Nurse Sarah Burke stands smiling in a black jacket and in front of a yellow wallMy SpecialtyStroke Nursing, Sarah Burke, Good Samaritan HospitalUsing the latest advances to heal the "heart attack of the brain"Sarah Burke, RN, BSN, SCRN Stroke Program Manager PIH Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles Please tell us the story of your nursing career journey. In nursing school, I fell in...
Illustration of two nurses, one in the foreground wearing scrubs and a stethoscope, while the other is on the computer in the backgroundHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Negative NewbiePositive, constructive feedback is necessary to improve behavior...of the Healthy Workforce Institute. As a speaker, author and consultant, her goal is to eradicate nurse bullying and incivility.   JASMIN MORA is a Los Angeles-based illustrator. Reach her...
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...violence on a neighborhood street or the senseless loss of innocent lives in a mass shooting,” said ENA President Patti Kunz Howard, RN, Ph.D., CEN, CPEN, TCRN, NE-BC, FAEN, FAAN,...
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...invented by surgeon Louis Ombrédanne]. You’ll be fine.” Remarkably, she was. She never lost a patient. A Return to Normal Life: “I am a nurse. I could never kill anyone.”...