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Registered Nurse Marti Sillman sits on an office chair in purple scrubs smiling at the cameraMy SpecialtyCorrectional Nursing, Marti Sillman, LA County JailHow nursing has evolved and how it is practiced today in L.A. City JailsMarti Sillman, RN Correctional Nurse Medical Services, City of Los Angeles What was your early nursing career like? I attended a four-year, hospital-based diploma nursing program in Bryn Mawr, Pa....
Registered Nurse Donovan Stewart is smiling in front of a computer while wearing a white coat and scrubs.My SpecialtyEmergency Nursing, Donovan Stewart, Adventist Glendale AdventistSaving lives while boosting patient satisfaction...the hospital had ever recruited. Following my first stint with Glendale Adventist, I served as a manager and educator at Cedars-Sinai while completing my MSN in nursing administration at Cal...
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...be a good to learn. In 2016, almost 2,000 Californians died of opioid overdose. Most could have been saved with prompt intervention. Knowing how to respond to a suspected overdose...
Nursing Book ClubThe Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness by Steve DeangeloMaking the case, not always persuasively, for the wellness benefits of marijuanaWith California legalizing the retail sale of recreational marijuana as of Jan. 1, 2018, I decided it was high time for me to learn more about the medical use of...
Katherine Buckner Avery sits in an old car with a gown and hat onProfiles In NursingKatherine Buckner Avery (1896-1982), Nightingale of the BayouThis Tabasco Sauce heiress was a champion for the underserved...graduated in 1921. By 1927, after several years in varied posts, including hospital, industrial and school nursing, Avery joined the Louisiana Public Health Service as an American Red Cross nurse,...

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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...Foreign Missions in Turkey; establishing a hospital in Caesarea, Palestine (now part of Israel); administering the American Hospital in Konya, Turkey; and later setting up a series of orphanages. She...
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...California’s 22nd Congressional District, encompassing Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and parts of Ventura County. (It’s now the 24th District.) When Walter died of a sudden heart attack less than...
Cicely Saunders bends over to talk to her older, female patient lying in a hospital bedProfiles In NursingCicely Saunders, Founder of Modern Hospice CareCicely Saunders created Palliative care...reasons, but felt called to nursing during World War II. She enrolled in the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, from which she graduated in 1944....
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...hospitals would not hire married women or allow a pregnant nurse to continue working. Hours were long, split shifts common and retirement plans nonexistent. After the California Hospital Association refused...
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...for several other hospitals and finally with dying patients at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead. Later Career Despite her attraction to the work, Worth did not remain in nursing...