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Postpartum nurse holding a new born baby in front of a young motherNursing & Healthcare NewsNurse Detectives at WorkInvestigating maternal mortality...Health Equity Failings While infant mortality rates are usually a matter of public concern, maternal mortality only occasionally makes headlines. Even so, the 700 or so maternal deaths that occur...
Black, heeled calf length boots are on the left and teal clogs are on the right. The background is whiteFeatureFrom Clodhoppers to ClogsThe colorful history of nursing shoes...robes of their common dress. Some nuns wore sandals, which still left their feet vulnerable to parasitic diseases and foot ulcers. The first true nursing shoes were probably worn in...
White nursing cap with frills on the base, lays on top of a black counterFeatureWhatever Became of Nursing Caps?Frilly or starched, they were once icons of the profession...you had to look very carefully to discern who was an RN and who was a tech. Some units barred name tags, which prompted the New York State Nurses Association...
Nursing Book ClubInferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine ChoA troubling account of postpartum psychosis...vividly how Cho, a Korean-born woman who was living in London when her young son was born, came to be in an inpatient psychiatric unit in New Jersey. Unhappy Upbringing...
Illustration of a nurse covering her eyes and leaning on her elbow while there is a tray of narcotics in front of her on the counterFeatureOverload: The Simple Improv Exercise That Shines a Light on Nursing StressHow constant interruptions lead to errors and burnout...which you can see on my YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/user/bethboynton/videos. I offered improv workshops in a friend’s barn and learned about the medical improv curriculum developed by Northwestern University’s Katie Watson,...

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On the left, a photo of the characters from ER holding each other, the middle is on a couple getting married with a rose on top of the photo, and the third is a couple sitting in a hospital bed holding each otherFeatureHospital RomanceIn pop culture, nurses find love, marriage and passion at work. Here is the real story....even if the protagonists aren’t always as ruggedly handsome as Nathan Riggs (Martin Henderson) of “Grey’s Anatomy.” The sparks definitely flew when Nancy Kessler, RN, met her future husband years...
A nurse in a classroom is raising her hand. She and everyone around her is wearing scrubs and look at notebooks or computersFeature3 Ways to Move Your Nursing Career ForwardTake classes, grow your professional network, get involvedNancy has been working as a psychiatric nurse for 27 years. Lately, she has been feeling something unusual: She lies in bed before getting up for work each morning, dreading...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsChildrens Hospital RankingsCHLA and UCLA among 2019-20 Best Hospitals...as a top-five children’s hospital in the United States and the best in the western U.S.,” says Nancy Lee, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, CHLA’s senior vice president and chief clinical officer....
Nursing Program Innovator: Nancy Pike, RN, Ph.D., CPNP-AC/PC, FAAN
Illustration of a nurse with an angry look on her faceFeatureDealing With Mean NursesTo confront or to avoid? Making the case for going along to get along...same. NANCY CONGLETON, RN, is a registered nurse and author of Autopsy of the NP: Dissecting the Nursing Profession Piece by Piece, released in August 2018. Learn more at www.nursenancyrn.com....