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Nursing Book ClubThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie WatsonA vivid memoir soon to become a TV showChristie Watson is an English author who wrote two successful novels before turning to nonfiction with this reflection on her 20-year nursing career. Although I found some of the U.K.-specific...
The Columbia building in Los Angeles - an old beige building with columnsProfiles In NursingMary Marvin Wayland (?-1946), Pioneer of Evidence-Based Nursing PracticeStandards of care once depended on where a nurse worked...widely used throughout the U.S. and abroad. After her marriage in 1930 to Charles Wayland, Marvin moved back to California, living in San Jose, Sierra Madre and later in Long...
Registered Nurse Lyrose Ortiz stands smiling in blue scrubs, arms resting on a counter.My SpecialtyIntensive Care Unit, Lyrose Ortiz, MLK Community HospitalHelping critical care nurses reach their full potential...an ICU clinical supervisor position, which they offered me. Working here has been a wonderful experience. Employees from administration to environmental services treat everyone like family. We’re a true team...
A patient sits upright in a hospital bed talking to a nurse in scrubs at the bedside. The nurse is using a tabletFeatureWired Hospitals: Methodist Hospital of Southern California and Gamification SystemsAn innovative way to collect patient feedback and award nurses for their efforts...service excellence and volunteer services. Burge says that adopting Wambi has had many benefits. “The HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) scores have increased since we introduced...
Different polaroid photos sit on top of each other depicting nurses in different uniforms, shows, and capsFeatureNursing Uniforms Through HistoryToday’s scrubs are a long way from the starched gowns and white caps of earlier eras...Sani-White or snow-white Shu-Milk shoe polish? Chlorine bleach or peroxide for the laces? Today’s colorful clogs and Crocs were far in the future and would have been unacceptable in most...

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Groups of people in a concentration camp are behind barbed wire fencing and wearing striped uniformsProfiles In NursingMaria Stromberger (1898–1957) – Austrian Nurse Who Risked Her Life to Aid Auschwitz PrisonersShe risked her life to ease suffering, then after the war testified against the Nazi guards...worst crimes, making them easier for non-victims to ignore or dismiss. As she testified after the war, Maria Stromberger, a 44-year-old Red Cross nurse originally from Sankt Veit, Austria, could...
Registered Nurse Carole Covey sitting in a plane with a jumpsuit on and a helmet. She is looking out of the window.My SpecialtyFlight Nursing, Carole Covey, PHI Air Medical GroupDelivering emergency care on the (rotary) wing...What a roller coaster! I worked as a tech in a pediatric urgent care clinic prior to nursing school and then transitioned to working in the emergency department as a...
Illustration of the Centaur hospital ship sinking with people swimming around it. On the right, there is a photo of Ellen Savage in a dress and cap smilingProfiles In NursingEllen Savage (1912-1985), Australian Nurse Who Rallied a Nation at WarShe survived the sinking of a hospital ship during WW2...her “conspicuous service and high courage,” she was awarded the George Medal in August 1944. Six weeks later, the submarine that sank the Centaur was herself sunk by an American...
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 Jails...City of Los Angeles since 1996. The Personnel Department, Medical Services Division is responsible for three “dispensaries” located inside Los Angeles Police Department city jails. The dispensaries provide services for...
Nursing Book ClubInfectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We Catch Mental Illness by Harriet A. WashingtonJust enough science to make it dangerous...with streptococcal infections.” PANDAS syndrome includes a number of psychiatric disorders such as OCD, Tourette’s and anorexia occurring in children following a Group A streptococcal infection. Susan Swedo, M.D., a...