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Registered Nurse Nohemy Sam wears a white coat and badge. She is standing and smiling with the hall of her unit behind her.My SpecialtyWound Care, Nohemy Sam, San Antonio Regional HospitalAddressing hard-to-treat or non-healing wounds...requests? I am part of the skin care committee and represent the management of wounds and skin on hospital-wide committees and task forces. I receive an average of 15 to...
Florence Nightingale sits on a couch smiling in multiple layers of clothingProfiles In NursingFlorence Nightingale (1820–1910), Mathematician and Social ReformerThe founder of modern nursing spoke six languages, designed hospitals, and chastised the English government for their colonial rule of India...objectively measure and analyze social forces. Her studies showed the need for uniform metrics so that comparable data would in fact be comparable; in other words, so that 5 percent...
Two nurses in scrubs standing in front of brain X-rays. One nurse is on her phone while the other is trying to talk to her.FeatureBattling Bullies: How to Take on Nursing Cliques and Gangs (and Win)How to survive and fix a toxic workplaceOn the first day of her clinical hours for her undergraduate degree in nursing, Emily noticed that some of the unit’s other female employees wore hair bands. Although it wasn’t...
Registered Nurse Raquel Gutierrez is sitting in maroon scrubs, and is on the computer.My SpecialtyPACU, Raquel Gutierrez, Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for HealthcareCaring for post-surgical patients at their most vulnerable...quickly, perform a jaw thrust and insert an oral airway to help keep her tongue from obstructing the airway. Another patient with a blood pressure of 79/49 had pale skin...
Nursing Book ClubThe Winter Station: A Novel by Jody ShieldsA fictional tale set during the Great Manchurian Plague of 1910...Russian and Japanese forces, each hoping to eventually take control of this outpost city. Kharbin was a station on the Russian-controlled Chinese Eastern Railway, an important hub of commerce and...

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Mildred Dalton wearing a military uniform and hat, sits smiling towards the cameraProfiles In NursingMildred Dalton Manning (1914-2013), WWII POW and the “Last Angel”She joined the Army to see the world...a lasting dread of the dark — Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright surrendered the U.S. forces in the Philippines, fearing a slaughter. The Japanese agreed “that the nurses would not be...
Three nurses in military uniforms stand around a sign that states "Nurses Quarters"FeatureAngels in Hell: The Nurse POWs of Bataan and CorregidorThe surrender of U.S. forces in the Philippines was only the beginning of the ordeal for these brave nurses...forces on Bataan surrendered and the patients became Japanese prisoners. Many of them were subsequently forced to march overland to prison camps in what historians now call the “Bataan Death...
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...into a 1,500-bed military hospital, the best in the United States at that time. According to illustrious wartime nurse Mary Livermore, Mother Angela ensured that in the hospitals where her...
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...who is eager to learn can also be very rewarding. Often, your preceptee can teach you something as well. Working as a preceptor forces you to stay up to date...
Nursing Book ClubThe Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie WatsonA vivid memoir soon to become a TV show...each specialty. We learn about the treatment of epilepsy and mental illness, the legacy of forced institutionalization and the development of neonatal units. She even discusses Florence Nightingale and her...