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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...
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...