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Two nurses in business attire are sitting and smiling in front of a sign for the California ANA OrganizationFeatureWhat Now for California Nursing Organizations?With conferences and face-to-face networking events on hold, professional groups are redefining their mission...the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL) to rethink their plans, goals and priorities. 2020, named the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization, has not...
Groups of people in a concentration camp are behind barbed wire fencing and wearing striped uniformsProfiles In NursingMaria Stromberger (1898–1957) – Austrian Nurse Who Risked Her Life to Aid Auschwitz PrisonersShe risked her life to ease suffering, then after the war testified against the Nazi guardsMoments of crisis can challenge the courage and ethics of any nurse, but we may all pray that our strength of character never faces the kind of tests Austrian nurse...
Men In Nursing 2021Men in Nursing 2021: Building the Super-NurseWhat superpowers should a nurse have?...For our annual , Working Nurse talked to 16 nurses at local hospitals about their career journeys, most inspiring patient encounters, and thoughts on superhero nurses. Here are their responses....
Nurse in hospital room opening the curtains while elderly patient in bed smiles.Nursing & Healthcare NewsWhy Nurses are Coming to CaliforniaStaffing ratio mandates and high salaries lead the nation...The BRN’s most recent nursing workforce report estimates that more than 13,000 nurses have moved to California each year since 2020. AARON SEVERSON is the associate editor of Working Nurse....
U.S. Air Force nurse holding a patient's head while another nurse intubates the patient.My SpecialtyU.S. Air Force Nursing, 1st Lt. Noemi Kate AlversadoCaring for service members as an active-duty nurse officer...civilian flight nurses, and aeromedical evacuation (AE) nurses, who are basically med-surg flight nurses who help to safely transport noncritical patients, deploy a lot more than clinical nurses do. What...

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Florence Nightingale in the barrack hospital at Scutari, Turkey, during the Crimean War.FeatureNightingale in CrimeaHow a fiery newspaper article took Florence Nightingale into the Crimean War and sparked her crusade for hospital reform...able to stand up against a military establishment that resisted change, had little use for nurses, and resented her interference. She also ruled her nurses with an iron hand. When...
Informaticist enabling an easier work environment by looking at new software on a tabletFeatureNursing InformaticsExploring career paths in a high-demand specialty...“Now, we have nurses in every nook and cranny of the organization,” Pollack explains. “They are programmers, educators and data scientists. Even the director of business operations is a nurse....
Absalom Jones and Richard Allen have their portraits on the left, and then there is a picture of a police officer knocking on someone's doorFeatureBlack Nurses and the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever EpidemicA tale of a deadly outbreak, inflammatory propaganda and heroism...a serious threat in many tropical areas of the Americas and Africa. ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based nursing experience....
Illustration of a nurse covering her eyes and leaning on her elbow while there is a tray of narcotics in front of her on the counterFeatureOverload: The Simple Improv Exercise That Shines a Light on Nursing StressHow constant interruptions lead to errors and burnoutSome years ago, while growing my consulting business and working on my second book on nurse communication, I took a job working 12-hour weekend shifts on a secure unit for...
An advertisement for the Queen's nurses on the left, and a picture of William Rathbone on the rightFeatureWilliam Rathbone VI (1819-1902), Father of English District NursingHow a Unitarian philanthropist urged Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale to revolutionize Dickens-era public health...extreme severity of the cases nursed by the district nurses.” The Queen’s Nurses Until the 1880s, district nursing was still primarily a privately funded local endeavor. However, in 1887, Queen...