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A picture of a woman on the ground after overdosing and her ghost looking down at herFeatureOpioid Overdose: Keep Your Patient Alive, But Protect YourselfExposure to even a small amount of fentanyl can be fatal...Boyle Heights area of downtown Los Angeles. Her unit sees a lot of overdose cases. One of the first challenges of responding to an overdose is recognizing what you’re dealing...
Nursing Book ClubThe Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness by Steve DeangeloMaking the case, not always persuasively, for the wellness benefits of marijuana...None of this is scientifically disputed, and it’s all useful information. The remaining chapters of DeAngelo’s manifesto, however, take a detour into the author’s personal history with the legal system...
Lois Capps as a House Representative on the left, in front of an American flag. On the right, with a nursing cap on, she is smiling away from the cameraProfiles In NursingRep. Lois Capps, RN, BSN, M.A.From bedside to divinity school to the House of Representatives...nurse and public health advocate for the Santa Barbara Unified School District and the director of the county’s Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project. She later earned a second master’s degree,...
Multiple nurses stand around a patient in a bed. They are wearing white dresses and nursing capsProfiles In NursingMarian Alford (1905-1989), Nurse OrganizerTaking action to improve conditions for nurses...California that year. Pictured above, student nurses at Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, 1966.   When we think of labor strife in the United States, we usually think of...