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Two nurses, one with scrubs on and the other wearing a white coat, are discussing how to use a tablet that's in front of themFeatureHow Nurses Can Steer Digital DecisionsBefore investing in new technology, have the front line nurses been consulted?...CNO at a 1,200-bed university medical center that had been recognized as a Magnet hospital. We achieved that distinction in part by using a shared governance model: Every nursing unit...
Three nursing leaders. Left to right, a woman smiling at the camera, a man standing at a podium, and a woman speaking to a crowdNursing & Healthcare NewsNursing Organizations Speak Out on Gun ViolenceANA, AANP, ENA issue statements...(left), ANA President Ernest J. Grant (center), and ENA President Patti Kunz Howard (right) call for renewed federal research into gun violence, which has largely stalled since the mid-90s. Grant...
Nursing Book ClubDopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth MacyAn origin story for the opioid crisis...medical use despite their potential for abuse, which led the U.S. to completely outlaw heroin in 1924. However, Macy traces the history of this current epidemic to the 1995 FDA...
Picture of registered nurse Marthe Cohn on the left, the cover of the book in the center, and then a few photos of clips of the movie on the rightFeatureA Sixth Sense for Danger: The Marthe Hoffnung Cohn StoryA Jewish nurse spying in Nazi Germany...Delauney, a medical student, dreamt that they could work together after the war. Escape to Vichy: Stephanie Hoffnung is arrested and sent to Auschwitz Marthe began her nursing training at...
Nursing Book ClubBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John CarryrouWhen a revolutionary medical innovation proves too good to be true...reliability of medical tests that endangered health and lives.” Author John Carreyrou, an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, published Bad Blood in...

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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...career were as a medical assistant and X-ray tech in a family practice clinic. I later obtained my LVN license and worked for six years in a plasmapheresis center. I...
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 workplace...to shun people who aren’t in the group, which can make going to work a stressful and unpleasant experience. Did you know that when people feel excluded, the pain centers...
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 vulnerableRaquel Gutierrez, RN Post Anesthesia Care Unit Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare, Pomona Please tell us about the arc of your nursing career. I graduated from nursing school...
Patient is sitting on a chair with his hand up. Nurse is using a vein finder on his hand and trying to stick in an IV.FeatureWired Hospital: Vein Illumination at Torrance Memorial HospitalNeedle sticks made quick...textbook. Sound like science fiction? It’s now a reality at hospitals like Torrance Memorial Medical Center, thanks to new vein illumination technology. On The Beam Several companies now offer vein...
Nursing Book ClubThe Winter Station: A Novel by Jody ShieldsA fictional tale set during the Great Manchurian Plague of 1910...began to find bodies in the snow. Fictional Characters in a Real Historical Epidemic Shields’ protagonist is the Russian chief medical examiner, Rozher Alexandrovich von Budberg, a Russian aristocrat married...