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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 potential...managers must be organized, creative, flexible, honest, fair, consistent and reasonable. They must also be positive; have a good sense of humor; and be able to make difficult decisions, resolve...
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...hair or keep it out of the patient’s bed. Instead, tight buns and caps corralled locks somewhere out of harm’s way. The cap was held in place by white bobby...
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...training. She also endowed the Lillian Sholtis Brunner Chair in Medical-Surgical Nursing. In addition to serving on multiple editorial boards, Brunner was an early fellow of the American Academy of...
A nurse is smiling across a table that has a tablet laying on itFeatureSeven Habits of Highly Effective NursesTake time to reflect on your career and be influenced and inspired by others...wellness. Do you remove yourself from work multiple times a day — even for just five minutes at a time — to breathe the fresh air and touch base with...
Registered Nurse Carole Covey sitting in a plane with a jumpsuit on and a helmet. She is looking out of the window.My SpecialtyFlight Nursing, Carole Covey, PHI Air Medical GroupDelivering emergency care on the (rotary) wing...and one paramedic. The staff rotate between each aircraft. You can get the same types of patients on both. The helicopter will do “scene calls” (911 response) while the airplane...

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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...transfer without leaving your chair.” Planning the Future Since MLKCH IS a relatively young hospital, many advanced technologies have been incorporated into the hospital’s procedures from the start. For most...
Illustration of the Centaur hospital ship sinking with people swimming around it. On the right, there is a photo of Ellen Savage in a dress and cap smilingProfiles In NursingEllen Savage (1912-1985), Australian Nurse Who Rallied a Nation at WarShe survived the sinking of a hospital ship during WW2...May 1941. That November, she was reassigned to the Second Australian Imperial Force, the expeditionary branch of Australia’s military forces, and embarked aboard the hospital ship Oranje. One of Savage’s...
Registered Nurse Marti Sillman sits on an office chair in purple scrubs smiling at the cameraMy SpecialtyCorrectional Nursing, Marti Sillman, LA County JailHow nursing has evolved and how it is practiced today in L.A. City Jails...as a nurse? I took time off in the 1960s to raise my children and came back to nursing in 1972. When I reentered the workforce, there were new guidelines....
Nathalie Bucknall is looking at the camera while holding papers in her right handProfiles In NursingNathalie Bucknall (1895–1959), Russian Nurse, Spy, and Hollywood Movie ExecutiveFrom the "Women's Battalion of Death" to WWII espionage to MGM Studios — this nurse led a life of adventure...The Bucknalls later moved to the United States, settling in Los Angeles in 1926. A year later, Bucknall took a job as a script reader for MGM. Her prodigious memory,...
A picture of a woman on the ground after overdosing and her ghost looking down at herFeatureOpioid Overdose: Keep Your Patient Alive, But Protect YourselfExposure to even a small amount of fentanyl can be fatal...was already thinking endotracheal intubation and Narcan because my thought and every nurse’s thought should always be airway. Because if you don’t have an airway, you don’t have a patient.”...