Nurse of the Week Elizabeth Anh-Trinh Stulac, RN/BSN is an established nurse leader working toward a Ph.D., but she remembers where she came from. So, earlier this month she went back home to Elk River, Minnesota to share a message […]
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Our Nurse of the Week column celebrates the New Jersey nurses who saved Trenton last month. (In the interest of full disclosure, the rescuee’s name is “Trent,” but he was named for Trenton, New Jersey, so these nurses absolutely “saved
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Our Nurse of the Week only received honorary credentials at best, but in the end, even a very hostile medical community had to acknowledge that Sister Elizabeth Kenny’s polio treatments helped thousands of children in the 1940s recover from the
“Since I was in, I think, about 4th or 5th grade I knew I wanted to be a nurse,” says Brittany Wilborn, RN. It took the mother of five nearly a decade, but Wilborn, our Nurse of the Week, knows
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One occupational hazard of being a nurse (or even a nursing student!) is that friends, family, and even brand-new acquaintances tend to buttonhole you for on-the-spot diagnoses and ad hoc consultations. And, since you are completely on board with helping
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Polly Sheppard has been on a mission since surviving the 2015 Emmanuel AME church massacre in South Carolina. If the killer spared the retired prison nurse in the hope that she would spread his message of gun-toting white supremacy, though,
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The scrub wardrobe of Philadelphia nurse and elite marathoner Samantha Roecker, RN is undergoing an unprecedented stress test this month. One might even say that her scrubs are moonlighting, but it’s for a good cause. Our Nurse of the Week
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There are some deliveries that are far beyond the abilities of USPS orPostmates. Everyone knows that the old saw “any port in a storm” is a truism when a pregnant woman is in labor and trying to reach a hospital
Nurse of the Week: Evelyn Davis Does Special Deliveries Read More »
On the evening of February 17, the US Senate voted for the final passage of the much-needed Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 1667). The Act was named in memory of Dr. Lorna Breen, a Virginia physician
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Imagine you’re a woozy grade-schooler waking up in the ICU at night… And when you open your eyes, the first thing you see is a nurse on the other side of the glass painting Minions! Or, Raphael and Michaelangelo getting
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