There are nuclear weapons, nuclear energy and even the nuclear family, but today, one of the most exciting and timely nuclears is nuclear medicine. This allied health specialty is on the verge of an unprecedented chapter in its long and […]
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Every three seconds, someone needs blood. Each day, across the nation, 32,000 units of red cells save lives. No one understands the importance of giving the gift of life more than nurses. You see it in your work every day:
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Magda Pascal recalls the 37-year-old man who lay close to death in the hospital after suffering massive burns in a work accident. His injuries were so severe that both arms had to be amputated, and he remained in intensive care
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Georgie Conoly Labadie, RN, BSN, EdD, a longtime professor of nursing at the University of Miami, may be 66 years old, but a youthful feistiness creeps into her voice as she recalls the part she played as a young student
If you’re looking for high-energy, fast-moving surgical nurses who can be depended upon for their professional judgment, critical thinking and compassionate caring, you don’t necessarily have to walk into the operating room to find them. These days, they are just
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An epidemic once referred to as a gay white man’s disease is now taking its toll on black women. Today the AIDS virus has found its way into the heart of many black communities, especially in the South, and it
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Ask most people how they plan to spend their retirement years and they will probably tell you they plan to relax, travel and maybe volunteer. Ask them how they plan to survive financially, however, and there’s a good chance they
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At a time when stories about hospitals being ill-prepared to meet the needs of non-English-speaking patients have become front-page news in major national media like USA Today, I recently received a letter from a master’s-entry nursing student named Joy Caneda,
Entering the patient’s room, I immediately took note of the look on the elderly woman’s face. There was no way I could look past her grimacing. As an African-American male nurse, I had seen this look before and knew it
I always wanted a BSN, says Pilar De La Cruz. But being married and having two small children, I felt that I could not manage work, family life and four years of school at the same time. Faced with a
