As Nurse of the Week Charlotte Thrall, DNP, FNP-C, CNE, FAANP sat anxiously waiting in the emergency room at Mayo Clinic for news of her husband’s condition after a pickleball accident left him unconscious and unresponsive, her mind spun with […]
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We honored Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MS, MBA, RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC as Nurse of the Week just last week. Did we run out of outstanding nurses? No, our in-box is still overflowing with NotW suggestions (and please keep them coming!). However,
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Dr. Sandra Lindsay made headlines around the world (and in DailyNurse) for being the first person—and first nurse—in the US to hold out her arm for a vaccine that was regarded by many with uncertainty. How could they produce a
Nurse of the Week Kashon Holmes, RN is also our candidate for Father of the Year. Holmes had long dreamt of becoming a nurse. He had done his homework early and was keenly aware that school would require an intense
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
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
We have another indefatigable and seemingly unstoppable Nurse of the Week on the verge of earning a BSN! The Nurse of the Week this time is Sabrina Bertsch, whose path to a Rutgers University–Camden nursing degree wound across the United States and
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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
Nurse of the Week: Marissa Pietrolungo Receives ANN Covid Courage Award for Leadership Read More »
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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