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Nursing & Healthcare NewsUpdates from the FDAVaccinations and hand washing to prevent illnesses...Hepatitis C Online webpage maintained by the University of Washington at www.hepatitisc.uw.edu. ==== New Treatment for Hospital-Acquired Infections Drug approved for HABP and VABP There’s a new tool for fighting...
Registered Nurse Nancy Pike smiles in a white coat, standing in front of brain imaging.My SpecialtyAssociate Professor and PNP, Nancy Pike, UCLA School of NursingTraining APRNs to fill the primary care gap...one of them. So, I moved to California, graduating in 1993. My next clinical position was at Stanford at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. It became apparent that I needed...
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...hospitals were only for the desperate. For many, to die in the street was a more appealing prospect than to die in a workhouse hospital. Nursing in these hospitals was...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Nurses of Ward 5BDocumentary about pioneering San Francisco AIDS unit...General Hospital established Ward 5B in July 1983, an epidemic was devastating the Bay Area’s LGBT community: a mysterious autoimmune disease with bizarre symptoms and a 100 percent fatality rate....
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...with breast cancer at age 46. I had basically lived with her in the hospital for two months to serve as her advocate, so my aunt urged me to consider...

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Two photos of Col Ruby Bradley in her military uniform.Profiles In NursingCol. Ruby Bradley (1907-2002), Army Nurse and Angel of Bataan POWA highly-decorated veteran, she survived four years as a Japanese POW...After graduating from college in 1926, she worked as a school teacher and then set her sights on the nursing profession. She graduated from Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing...
An illustration of one male nurse in scrubs is whispering to a female nurse and she is laughingHealthy WorkforceThe Case of the Shameless GossipMalicious talk undermines relationships and trust. As nurses, we can do better!...recently died is not. Loose Lips Recently, while doing some consulting at a hospital, I was standing in line for the coffee cart behind two hospital employees who were talking...
Alice Magaw working with doctors to take care of a patient. They are all wearing white gowns and head covers with masks onProfiles In NursingAlice Magaw Kessel (1860-1928), Pioneering Nurse AnesthetistShe performed 14,380 procedures with no fatalities...early 20s. There, she met and befriended Edith Graham, who later became her classmate in the nursing school at Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. When they graduated in 1889,...
Female patient lying in a hospital bed and wearing a hospital gown, is talking to a voice assistant on the table next to herNursing & Healthcare NewsVoice Assistants for Patient RoomsAre privacy concerns being addressed?...add your hospital stay to the information its manufacturer already has about you. As more hospitals adopt such systems, patients may face considerable pressure to “voluntarily” trade privacy for convenience...
Picture of Grace Neill smiling on the left, and a group of women in white gowns posing together on the rightProfiles In NursingElizabeth Grace Neill (1846-1926), a Crusader for Nursing RegistrationThis social reformer also founded midwife-run maternity hospitals...contribute to society: the recently respectable field of nursing. After training at King’s College and Charing Cross hospitals in London, she became “lady superintendent” of a children’s hospital near Manchester...