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An illustration of the electrical bassinet on the left, and the stainless steel picture of one on the rightProfiles In NursingEvelyn Lundeen (1900-1963), Neonatal Nurse Who Redefined Premature Infant CareSetting the standards for neonatology care...births, including mandatory reporting requirements and a new staff of county-funded home health nurses to provide maternal educational and follow-up care. Although those nurses were Cook County employees, they were...
Registered Nurse Tami Hitchcock stands smiling in colorful scrubs. She is standing in front of a yellow wall.My SpecialtyPediatric Acute Care, Tami Hitchcock, Loma Linda University Children’s HospitalTreating and nurturing sick and injured children...well as decorations and gingerbread houses the kids can make. Santa always comes to visit, and local police often arrive with gifts. There are always special holiday events, including some...
Nursing Book ClubWhat Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan...Maddy Holleran, the subject of What Made Maddy Run, lived in my county, so this book caught my interest early on. Holleran’s family was much the same as those around...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsVaccination ExemptionsANA rejects religious exemptions as California considers tighter rules...vaccination exemptions. For example, San Diego M.D. Tara Zandvliet has written 29 percent of all medical exemptions in the San Diego Unified School District — an average of three dozen...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsUpdates from the FDAVaccinations and hand washing to prevent illnesses...the other three serotypes, you’re at risk of a much more severe dengue infection, which can be lethal. Back in 2015, Sanofi Pasteur introduced a vaccine, Dengvaxia, specifically designed to...

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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...Army officer and an Irishwoman, she spend much of her childhood in Mauritius and then a country house in Fahan, County Donegal, Ireland. She went to school in Stratford-upon-Avon (birthplace...
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...