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Nursing & Healthcare NewsOpioid Suit Decided Against Johnson & JohnsonCompany ordered to pay $572 million in Oklahoma civil trial...several pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Purdue Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson, charging that their role in the state’s opioid crisis constitutes a public nuisance and demanding that the companies...
Jon Garrison sits aside a fire in the wilderness. Rocks and trees surround him.FeatureWhen a Special Patient DiesA routine of self-care helps to cope with loss...with a couple of picnic tables. For me, this hike has turned into a ritual of sorts — a ritual of sweat and fresh air and introspection. It was through...
Nursing Book ClubWhen Death Becomes Life: Notes From a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich, M.D.A provocative look at organ donationIn the prologue of When Death Becomes Life, author Joshua D. Mezrich, M.D., states that this book “is neither a memoir nor a complete history of transplantation.” It’s actually a...
One nurse in the background screaming in front of a computer while another nurse in the foreground is looking at her sadlyHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Abrasive PerfectionistIs that nurse difficult and demanding because she's a perfectionist with high standards — or is she a bully?...be a common goal, not an excuse to drag others down. RENEE THOMPSON, RN, DNP, CMSRN, is the CEO and founder of the Healthy Workforce Institute. As a speaker, author...
Jane Delano wearing a nursing uniform and cap with the red cross on it on the left. On the right, a group of Red Cross volunteers pose togetherProfiles In NursingJane Delano (1862-1919), Champion of the American Red Cross Nursing ServiceRecruiting and training nurses to serve in war and peace...where she accepted a position as superintendent at a nursing school in Pennsylvania. The Army Nurse Corps In 1898, the United States went to war with Spain over Cuba and...

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A green tray sits on a counter with a syringe, barcode stickers, and a yellow bandaidNursing & Healthcare NewsNurses Tackle Vaccine HesitancyAnswering questions, debunking propaganda, educating doctors...health. A group in New York City believes that nurses may hold the answer. Vaccine Task Force New York City has been a hotbed of recent measles outbreaks, due in...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsDo BSNs Save Lives?Study shows better outcomes, but adequate staffing still a must...in four states (including California) and found that having more BSN-prepared nurses significantly improved patient outcomes. A 10-percentage-point increase in a hospital’s number of BSN-prepared nurses improved arrest patients’ odds...
Sarah Palmer's book cover on the left. On the right, an illustration of her near a vacant bedProfiles In NursingSarah A. Palmer, aka “Aunt Becky” (1830–1908), Civil War Nurse and MemoiristHer vivid wartime memoir is still in print...sent on wild goose chases to different government offices, Palmer confronted the Army paymaster, who refused to pay her until Palmer planted herself in a chair in his office and...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsUpdates from the FDAVaccinations and hand washing to prevent illnesses...HCV-infected children in the United States. Back in August 2017, the FDA approved a promising new antiviral medication for treating HCV: tablets of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir, marketed by AbbVie Inc....
Nursing Book ClubNo Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise SnyderA Study of Intimate Partner Violence...— a figure that, by the Bureau’s own admission, is likely an underestimate. Looking at it in another way, 20 people in the United States are assaulted every minute by...