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Three nurses shown in different ways - the first is flexing in scrubs, the second is in full PPE, the third is mopping the floor in scrubsFeatureOne Year Later: Lessons from the Front Lines of the PandemicThoughts on leadership, stepping up when needed, and communicating with our patients' families...barreled through our medical ICU like a runaway train as we admitted our first COVID-19 patient. The clinical educator distributed PPE and detailed the protocols for its use, droning, “Sanitize,...
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A group of female nurses in dresses and caps are smoking togetherFeatureWhen Nurses Smoked in HospitalsIn years past, there was an ashtray on every patient nightstand, nurses lit up in break rooms, and doctors and nurses were featured in cigarette ads...school. “I was working in a ‘smoking’ hospital as a nonsmoker,” recalls Susan Tate, RN, “but later started to smoke and continue to battle that addiction to this day!” The...
A nurse is taking the blood pressure of an older patient while they both sit at a tableFeatureFaith Community NursingCaring for the congregation...the resources of smaller or poorer faith organizations, even if the nurses are volunteers. Elly Walters-Bible, RN, BSN, PHN, a parish nurse in the Santa Barbara area, recalls the lengthy...
On the left is the movie poster for Love And War and on the right is a photo of the female lead dressed in black looking out over a balconyMovie & TV Nurses“In Love and War” Movie ReviewA WWI biopic about American nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky and a young Ernest Hemingway...Sandra Bullock. Hemingway has decided not to attend college and instead joined a Kansas City newspaper in hopes of making his name as a frontline war correspondent. He’s determined to...

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Edward Jenner is smiling and thinking about immunizing his sonFeatureImmunization, Then and NowWhat lessons can history teach us about eradicating disease?...the masking, distancing and sanitation precautions most of us continue to practice to avoid COVID-19 may also reduce the incidence of other communicable diseases, such as influenza and measles. Vaccine...
Agnes Von Kurowsky in nursing attire smiles at Ernest Hemingway in a military uniformProfiles In NursingAgnes Von Kurowsky (1892–1984), Literary MuseThe nurse who inspired Ernest Hemingway...parted ways with reality, casting Chris O’Donnell and Sandra Bullock as Hemingway and Von Kurowsky in a soapy romance as sensationalized as anything Hemingway had written or said. It seems...
Nursing Book ClubBellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David OshinskyA colorful (and gruesome) history of big city medicine...the 1989 murder of a physician by a homeless man who had been living undetected, within the hospital and the evacuation of the facility during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the...
Nursing Book ClubWhat the Eyes Do Not See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., MPH, FAAPA pediatrician exposes the water crisis in Flint...our average lifespans and improving our quality of life remain fragile, depending on factors like vaccination, sanitation and clean water. Take any of those away and the consequences can be...
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