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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 wounds...worked in the telemetry unit for two years. During this time, I concurrently served as a legal nurse consultant for a private Los Angeles law firm. Later on, I became...
Florence Nightingale sits on a couch smiling in multiple layers of clothingProfiles In NursingFlorence Nightingale (1820–1910), Mathematician and Social ReformerThe founder of modern nursing spoke six languages, designed hospitals, and chastised the English government for their colonial rule of India...her own broad education enhanced her problem-solving ability, she resisted educational requirements and even registration for nurses. She thought that good candidates would be lost if qualifications were determined by...
Two nurses in scrubs standing in front of brain X-rays. One nurse is on her phone while the other is trying to talk to her.FeatureBattling Bullies: How to Take on Nursing Cliques and Gangs (and Win)How to survive and fix a toxic workplace...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....
Registered Nurse Raquel Gutierrez is sitting in maroon scrubs, and is on the computer.My SpecialtyPACU, Raquel Gutierrez, Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for HealthcareCaring for post-surgical patients at their most vulnerable...recoveries compared to traditional surgery. Robotic-assisted surgeries also benefit patients by shortening hospital stays, performing smaller incisions, reducing blood loss and lowering the possibility of infection. This is such a...
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...Starved to Death” The hardest year of Dalton’s captivity was the last. “When the Japanese began to lose the war, they wouldn’t let anybody go outside, and they wouldn’t let...

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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 University of the Philippines College of Agriculture campus at Los Baños. Eight hundred men were transferred there, along with the 11 captive Navy nurses, who still smarted from being...
Registered Nurse Serene Owen stands smiling while holding a baby simulator that is resting on a table next to her.My SpecialtyCNS Educator, Senene Owen, Methodist Hospital of Southern CaliforniaCaring for high-acuity infant patients...involvement as a consultant? Difficult cases are sent to me: any patient in maternal/child; patients with perinatal loss or high potential for a poor outcome; patients requiring high-risk infant follow-up;...
Nursing Book ClubThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie WatsonA vivid memoir soon to become a TV show...imagine that her institutions (she was a part-timer at two hospitals) were sorry to lose her. At first glance, I wasn’t at all sure that I would like this memoir,...
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 workedPhoto above: Columbia hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, where Mary Marvin began her career as a nurse in the 1920s. Evidence-based practice is such a fundamental part...
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 potentialLyrose Ortiz, RN, BSN ICU Clinical Unit Night Supervisor MLK Community Hospital, Los Angeles Please tell us about the arc of your nursing career. I received my BSN in 1995....