The ED is often the site of hospital workplace violence. Some nights, the atmosphere can be like a growth medium for trouble. Patients with nowhere else to go when they’re sick are joined by people suffering acute pain, asthmatics fighting
Nurses and doctors have long been famous (or notorious) for their coffee consumption. Is that an ironic indulgence in an unhealthy habit? Should we be comparing today’s coffee-dependent health professionals to their 1950s predecessors, who interviewed patients amid a haze
It happens to everyone, but nurses grit their teeth and bear with it every day. “It” is, of course, the profligate, Gaia-trashing cousin of the Missing Sock Phenomenon: The Redundant Glove Problem. This is the dream: Your mask is on,
After 4 decades in nursing—and first-hand experience with a global pandemic starting in year 39—our Nurse of the Week is done with handovers, aching feet, and N95s (possibly). On May 28, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital RN Sylvana Fontana
It’s well-known—among nurses, at least—that myriads of nurses first recognize their calling when family members or they themselves are being cared for in a hospital. (So, every time you visit the bedside of a young person, you might be “pollinating”
Whether you are focused on being a clinician, an educator, in shaping health policies—or a combination of these—earning a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree helps you gain the skills and assemble the tools you need to be a force
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It was late March 2020. Covid-19 had landed in the US, had washed through Seattle and ventured into the Big Apple, though as yet had only killed a few hundred New Yorkers. As the month drew to a close, Covid
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Kids at Yreka High School in Siskiyou, California know that one teacher is really looking out for their health. Our Nurse of the Week, BSN Amy Gaither, is a nurse-educator who tends to a very important patient demographic: Yreka High’s
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Why do nurses seem to be so good at transitioning to successful health care and nursing-adjacent careers? Well, even if you have been an RN for only a year or two, between your time in nursing school and on the
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When her ONS (Oncology Nursing Society) peers speak of Nurse of the Week Betty Ferrell, PhD, MA, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN, they use the kinds of phrases that populate the fondest of fond mothers’ secret daydreams. But oncology nurses are not
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