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Nursing Book ClubThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanA Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Back in 1997, Anne Fadiman wrote The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, documenting the experience of a Hmong family in Merced, Calif., 10 years earlier. The book, which won the National Book Critics Award, was a wake-up call on the need for cultural...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsNurse Detectives at WorkInvestigating maternal mortalityEach year, hundreds of new mothers die within 12 months of giving birth. The nurses and other practitioners on the CDC’s multidisciplinary mortality review committees seek to better understand why. Health Equity Failings While infant mortality rates...
FeatureNursing InformaticsExploring career paths in a high-demand specialty“Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.” — American...

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Nursing Book ClubHer Hidden Genius by Marie BenedictThis historical novel looks at the dark side of the discovery of DNAJames Watson won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. He maintained the answer to the puzzle came to him in a dream in 1953. Her Hidden Genius, a novel by Marie Benedict, tells a different story Her Hidden Genius is...
Profiles In NursingNursing in the Wild WestThe true tales of Calamity Jane and Nellie CashmanIt may be difficult to believe today, but there was a time when nurses suffered a dubious reputation. While the nuns who founded nursing orders and hospitals were seen as ministering angels, lay nursing was seldom considered a respectable profession, and...
My SpecialtyHematology/Oncology, Devon Ballentine, UCLA Santa MonicaUsing new therapies and clinical collaboration to help patients fight cancerDevon Ballentine, RN, BSN Clinical Nurse II, Charge Nurse AMN Hematology/Oncology Unit UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center Please share with us a little about your career. I joined UCLA Health as a new grad. I’ve been with this great organization...

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Healthy WorkforceSlaying the Workplace Energy VampiresDon’t let them drain your enthusiasm and productivitySarah is an experienced staff nurse who never has anything nice to say. The other nurses hate giving her report because Sarah sighs and rolls her eyes any time they make a positive comment about patients, families, the unit, the weather or anything else....
Nursing & Healthcare NewsFewer Opioid Prescriptions, More Fentanyl DeathsAre prescribing restrictions now aiming at the wrong target?As the CDC prepares new opioid prescribing guidelines, the growing prevalence of fentanyl-related deaths raises questions about the effectiveness of continuing to crack down on prescription opioids. CDC Guideline Revision In February, the CDC released a...
FeatureOnscreen Moments That Get Nursing Right (and Some That Still Don’t)Movie and tv moments that got nursing right and times they didn'tMovies and TV shows aren’t known for accurately portraying the multifaceted roles of nurses. “Chicago Hope” seems to have only one nurse who works on a different unit each episode. “ER” shows doctors doing the nurses’ jobs, while Grey Sloan...

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