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Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Nurses of Ward 5BDocumentary about pioneering San Francisco AIDS unitThirty-six years ago, nurses in San Francisco established the country’s first specialized AIDS unit. A new documentary film, 5B, tells their story. The First Step When nurses at San Francisco...
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...for a time as a consultant for a hospital in Santo Domingo, helping them prepare for Joint Commission International accreditation. It was a wonderful and challenging experience, since even the...
Two photos of Col Ruby Bradley in her military uniform.Profiles In NursingCol. Ruby Bradley (1907-2002), Army Nurse and Angel of Bataan POWA highly-decorated veteran, she survived four years as a Japanese POW...establish a small camp hospital. It soon became an obstetrical ward and nursery, where Bradley and Chambers helped to deliver 13 babies. In September, Bradley was transferred to the Santo...
Alice Magaw working with doctors to take care of a patient. They are all wearing white gowns and head covers with masks onProfiles In NursingAlice Magaw Kessel (1860-1928), Pioneering Nurse AnesthetistShe performed 14,380 procedures with no fatalities...to publish her work. Her first article, an 1899 piece in The Northwestern Lancet, recapped her recent lecture to the Olmsted County Medical Society. In all, she would publish six...
Registered Nurse Anita Karra is wearing a white coat and smiling towards the camera with a patient room behind her.My SpecialtyClinical Research Nursing, Anita Karra, City of HopeGathering data and managing patients enrolled in clinical trials...a three- to four-week onboarding program as an introduction to clinical research, coupled with 12 weeks of mentorship by a qualified CRN preceptor. Our leaders have also utilized the CRN...

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Picture of Grace Neill smiling on the left, and a group of women in white gowns posing together on the rightProfiles In NursingElizabeth Grace Neill (1846-1926), a Crusader for Nursing RegistrationThis social reformer also founded midwife-run maternity hospitals...department of three, Neill’s workload was extremely heavy. Her responsibilities involved investigating hospitals and charities for signs of mismanagement and fraud, whether by administrators, staff or patients. It was not...
Illustration of a nurse being grabbed by the wrist by another nurse, and throwing her clipboard in the airHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Bad Day BullyAn isolated harsh incident should be judged in context...in the emergency department. She should have called off, but, ironically, she didn’t want to dump on her coworkers. Camilla was just having a really bad day and this was...
Different picture of the nursing handoff game, with nurses standing all around a stageFeatureThe Patient Handoff GameFor smoother report and fewer communication glitches, borrow team exercises from improv theater...this fictional scenario: Last night, Jill, a staff nurse on the med-surg floor, admitted a male patient named Smith through the emergency department. At the time of the transfer, the...
Registered Nurse Sarah Burke stands smiling in a black jacket and in front of a yellow wallMy SpecialtyStroke Nursing, Sarah Burke, Good Samaritan HospitalUsing the latest advances to heal the "heart attack of the brain"...24 hours post-stroke. We have a cath lab, in-house neurosurgeons and other services. We also have a facility-wide stroke care certification, which is very difficult to obtain. We do our...
Two nurses, one with scrubs on and the other wearing a white coat, are discussing how to use a tablet that's in front of themFeatureHow Nurses Can Steer Digital DecisionsBefore investing in new technology, have the front line nurses been consulted?...a smartphone app intended to improve care team communication and patient flow in the emergency department. Unfortunately, hospital leaders soon found that app usage was unexpectedly low. The problem was...