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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...Opioid Safety – www.ihi.org • Boston University, SCOPE of Pain: Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education – www.scopeofpain.com • CDC, Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids – https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/providers/prescribing/guideline.html • Institute for Research,...
Nursing Book ClubThe Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness by Steve DeangeloMaking the case, not always persuasively, for the wellness benefits of marijuana...if prohibitions were removed, all adults would use cannabis sensibly and there would be wellness for all. (On his website, he says he believes cannabis “should be used to further...
Emma Cushman poses with three children. They are all wearing black outfits.Profiles In NursingEmma Cushman (1863-1931), Saving World War I OrphansPistol-packing guardian angel for the young victims of the Armenian Genocide...demanded.” He wasn’t speaking figuratively either, noting that Cushman was armed both day and night with pistols, with which, Thayer said, “she was just as good a shot as the...
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...Washingtonian magazine’s Nicest Member of Congress award. Even Republican challengers who opposed her for reelection were won over by her soft-spoken graciousness. Santa Barbara Independent correspondent Nick Welsh dubbed her...
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...Currently, Titus is one of three nurses honored with the ANA’s annual Advocacy Award. ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN, is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based...

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On the left is Jennifer Worth in a nurse's uniform and hat looking up, on the right is a nurse holding a baby in Call the MidwifeMovie & TV NursesJennifer Worth (1935-2011) and “Call the Midwife”Her experience in ‘50s and ‘60s London became a bestselling memoir and popular BBC TV series...“was quite common.” The role of the midwife in that world was a relatively new one. “[E]ven as little as twenty or thirty years previously, women were still delivering each...
Five nurses in different scrubs stand next to each other smilingFeatureSix Ways to Improve Collaboration on Nursing TeamsThe goal is to overcome obstacles...when dealing with people who went to a better (or worse) school than you did? Are you self-conscious about the way you speak or your experience and credentials? If you’re...