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Registered Nurse Serene Owen stands smiling while holding a baby simulator that is resting on a table next to her.My SpecialtyCNS Educator, Senene Owen, Methodist Hospital of Southern CaliforniaCaring for high-acuity infant patientsSenene Owen, RNC, MSN, CNS, CPNP Clinical Nurse Specialist/Educator Methodist Hospital of Southern California Please tell us about the arc of your nursing career. Before I earned my nursing degree,...
Mother Angela in a habit sits stoically looking at the cameraProfiles In NursingMother Mary of St. Angela (1824-1887), Civil War Hospital AdministratorMother Angela stepped up to care for Union soldiers during the Civil War...serve in Union military hospitals (and on the hospital ship Red Rover), bringing skill, dedication and order to those chaotic environments. In those days, nurses were expected to clean, wash...
Three nurses are talking. Two are in scrubs and one is in casual attire.FeatureChart Your Career CourseHow to find your passion and follow it through...degree in nursing, I took a job as a medical/surgical nurse on the night shift at a local hospital. It was there that I discovered a passion for caring for...
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...practicing at Columbia Hospital in Los Angeles and Seaside Hospital in Long Beach, she moved to the East Coast and became a nursing instructor. She earned her bachelor’s degree and...
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 potentialLyrose Ortiz, RN, BSN ICU Clinical Unit Night Supervisor MLK Community Hospital, Los Angeles Please tell us about the arc of your nursing career. I received my BSN in 1995....

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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...in the company’s logo. A growing number of healthcare facilities, including Methodist Hospital of Southern California, are now using Wambi to improve engagement, motivation and patient satisfaction. The photo above...
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...and visual iconography. Laundry Day When I was a young girl, my grandmother, a former laundress, would entertain me with stories about the laundry at Bellevue Hospital in New York....
The Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook cover on the left, and a photo of Lillian Bruner smiling on the rightProfiles In NursingLillian Brunner (1918-2016), Author of the “Brunner Bible” TextbookNursing students remember their Brunner Bible...in the School of Nursing at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, training for nurses was still usually divided into separate medical, surgical and obstetrical tracks. The...
Many nurses and doctors surround a simulation where someone is receiving emergency treatment. Many people are in different roles, like one person is giving CPRFeatureWired Hospitals: UCLA Medical Center and High-Fidelity ManikinsLights! Camera! Action! Septic Shock?It was bloody. The first big simulation Kenneth M. Miller, RN, MSN, CCRN, CHSE, ran as nursing simulation program coordinator at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was a hemorrhagic splenectomy...
A nurse in a white coat is taking an ultrasound of a patient lying on a hospital bedFeatureWired Hospitals: From Science Fiction to the BedsideHow local hospitals are using technology to reshape the way nurses work...where the consultant is, but that doesn’t matter,” says Querubin. Innovations like this have made MLKCH one of 27 hospitals across the country selected by Hospitals & Health Networks and...