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Nursing Book ClubNatural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara EhrenreichA Contrarian View of AgingBarbara Ehrenreich has authored or coauthored almost 20 books, many of them on topics other than healthcare and science. Thus, I was surprised to learn that she has a Ph.D. in cellular immunology and is well qualified both as scientist and author to...
Healthy WorkforceThe Case of the Negative NewbiePositive, constructive feedback is necessary to improve behaviorGretchen is an experienced orthopedics nurse who is currently precepting new grad nurse Tammy. Although she is progressing well clinically, Tammy has a condescending attitude towards the support staff. She makes negative comments about them in the break...
FeatureHow Nurses Can Steer Digital DecisionsBefore investing in new technology, have the front line nurses been consulted?Some time ago, while speaking about information technology at a conference of nursing executives, I asked the audience,“How many of you are familiar with the term ‘digital transformation?’” Not one person raised their hand. As I continued,...

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Nursing & Healthcare NewsNursing Organizations Speak Out on Gun ViolenceANA, AANP, ENA issue statementsAfter recent mass-casualty shootings in Ohio and Texas, three national nursing organizations have issued public statements calling for policymakers to take stronger action against gun violence. “Common-Sense Reforms” On August 6, following shootings...
Nursing Book ClubDopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth MacyAn origin story for the opioid crisisIn her new book, Dopesick, journalist and author Beth Macy traces the history of a public health crisis that now kills more Americans under the age of 50 than guns or car accidents, and whose grim toll exceeds even the worst years of the HIV epidemic....
FeatureA Sixth Sense for Danger: The Marthe Hoffnung Cohn StoryA Jewish nurse spying in Nazi GermanyMarthe Hoffnung Cohn was an Orthodox Jewish nurse from Alsace-Lorraine who went underground to evade Nazi capture. She worked behind enemy lines as a spy for French military intelligence, and later set up a field hospital in Indochina, where she had to...

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Nursing Book ClubBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John CarryrouWhen a revolutionary medical innovation proves too good to be trueI had read a little bit last year about the controversy surrounding the biotech company Theranos, but it wasn’t until Working Nurse Editor-in-Chief Catherine Rhodes told me that everyone she knew was talking about this new book that I decided to read...
My SpecialtyWound Care, Nohemy Sam, San Antonio Regional HospitalAddressing hard-to-treat or non-healing woundsNohemy Sam, RN, BSN, CWOCN Wound Care Nurse Manager San Antonio Regional Hospital Please tell us about the trajectory of your nursing career. The first nine years of my healthcare career were as a medical assistant and X-ray tech in a family practice...
Profiles In NursingFlorence Nightingale (1820–1910), Mathematician and Social ReformerThe founder of modern nursing spoke six languages, designed hospitals, and chastised the English government for their colonial rule of IndiaEvery nurse learns the basics about Florence Nightingale: She was a wealthy woman who, despite the gender strictures of her era, turned British healthcare on its head. Rather than leading a life of leisure (or, later, of invalidism), she threw her talents...

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