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Nursing & Healthcare NewsUpdates from the FDAVaccinations and hand washing to prevent illnesses...hospital-acquired infections: The FDA recently approved the medication Zerbaxa to treat healthcare-associated bacterial pneumonia. Zerbaxa Approval If you’ve worked in the ICU, you may be all too familiar with the...
Illustration of a nurse in scrubs smiling while holding a clipboard and thinking of graduating from schoolHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Bitter BackbitersReduce professional jealousy by creating a culture where accomplishments are celebrated...make that dream a reality by pursuing an online master’s degree program. She continues to juggle her shifts at the hospital with her courses, clinicals and tests. When Rosa told...
Registered Nurse Nancy Pike smiles in a white coat, standing in front of brain imaging.My SpecialtyAssociate Professor and PNP, Nancy Pike, UCLA School of NursingTraining APRNs to fill the primary care gap...one of them. So, I moved to California, graduating in 1993. My next clinical position was at Stanford at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. It became apparent that I needed...
An advertisement for the Queen's nurses on the left, and a picture of William Rathbone on the rightFeatureWilliam Rathbone VI (1819-1902), Father of English District NursingHow a Unitarian philanthropist urged Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale to revolutionize Dickens-era public healthAlthough he himself was neither nurse nor physician, William Rathbone was one of the most important figures in British nursing in the Victorian era, revolutionizing healthcare for England’s poor and...
Illustration of Agnes Jones portrait in the center, with images of different urban and rural scenery around herProfiles In NursingAgnes Jones (1832-1868), English Workhouse Infirmary ReformerIn the age of Dickens, her efforts led to the reform of English public healthcare...hospitals were only for the desperate. For many, to die in the street was a more appealing prospect than to die in a workhouse hospital. Nursing in these hospitals was...

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Nursing & Healthcare NewsMaternal Mortality and RaceS.B. 464 takes aim at implicit bias...racial disparities are so great that even healthy, middle-class Black women who don’t smoke and have good prenatal care have statistically worse birthing outcomes than do poor white women. Implicit...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Nurses of Ward 5BDocumentary about pioneering San Francisco AIDS unit...General Hospital established Ward 5B in July 1983, an epidemic was devastating the Bay Area’s LGBT community: a mysterious autoimmune disease with bizarre symptoms and a 100 percent fatality rate....
Illustration of a nurse in scrubs looking sad while two nurses in the background are gossipingHealthy WorkforceA Clear Case of HazingWhile bullying is about exclusion, hazing is a form of group initiation...may violate policy and leave the hospital open to lawsuits for creating a hostile work environment. Speaking Up Let’s go back to the scenario with Tina, Jack and Della. Della’s...
Registered Nurse Robin Krasner wears red scrubs and is standing and smiling in front of a gray backgroundMy SpecialtyClinical Improvement, Robin Krasner, Keck Medical Center of USCEvaluating processes to improve care delivery...with breast cancer at age 46. I had basically lived with her in the hospital for two months to serve as her advocate, so my aunt urged me to consider...
A nurse in scrubs is sitting on the hospital floor with her arms on her knees and her head in her hands.FeatureHazardous HabitsHow shortcuts and workarounds become the dangerous new normal...days of barcoded medication administration (BCMA), health IT expert Ross Koppel, Ph.D., FACMI, and his colleagues observed and shadowed nurses using BCMA systems at five hospitals. Their study, published in...