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Illustration of a woman helping a patient in bed on the left and then two people talking in a bedroom on the rightProfiles In NursingAnn Bradford Stokes (1830–1903), From Civil War “Contraband” to U.S. Navy PensionerAfter escaping the plantation where she was enslaved, Stokes boarded a Union hospital ship and volunteered to become a Navy nurse....with reenactments and historical portrayals. She remains a nursing pioneer and a remarkable icon for women, Black Americans, U.S. Navy nurses and nurses everywhere. JESSICA KIRCHNER, RN, MSN, NPD-BC, is...
Men In Nursing 2021Men in Nursing 2021: Building the Super-NurseWhat superpowers should a nurse have?...Buencamino, RN, MN, Methodist Hospital of Southern California The ability to self-clone. If nurses could do that, there’d be no more nurse shortages. Jose Luis Chavez, Jr., RN, DNP, ACCNS-AG,...
Men In Nursing 2021Men In Nursing 2021: Staying StrongAnnual Special Feature...apply this wisdom to virtually everything. Jose Chavez RN Nurse, with personal protective equipment (PPE) in patient room. Mask Jose Luis Chavez, Jr., RN, DNP, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, AACC Critical Care...
Linda Vista hospital in the eerie darkness of night, only lit by a front door light and the moon in the background. It is a yellow building with 5 floors and dark windowsFeatureThe Most Haunted Hospital in AmericaWas the Linda Vista in East Los Angeles truly filled with spirits or were its ghosts Hollywood inventions?...the other hand, you never know. ERSILIA POMPILIO, RN, MSN, PNP, is a pediatric nurse practitioner, writer and theatrical director. She is the creator of “Nurses and Hypochondriacs,” a storytelling...
Robot hand is holding out a stethoscope. The background is white and the robot is white.FeatureAlgorithms at the BedsideNurses, artificial intelligence, and machine learning...hour.” (She adds that it is still important for physicians to validate the machine’s findings.) Stephanie Frisch, RN, MSN, Ph.D., a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of...