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My SpecialtyAdmission Liaison, Tanjanique Davis-Moody, L.A. CareManaging hospital admissions after ED, urgent care, or doctor’s office visitsTanjanique Davis-Moody, RN, CMCN, CCM Admission Liaison, ER Team L.A. Care Health Plan Please share with us the trajectory of your nursing career. I’ve been a nurse for 26 years. I spent the bulk of my years working hands-on in the emergency room at...
Profiles In NursingIsabel Hampton Robb (1859–1910), Founding President of the ANAShe brought rigor and standards to nursing educationThe first president of what is now the American Nurses Association (ANA), Isabel Adams Hampton Robb was also an important innovator in American nursing education. She spearheaded a movement to transform nursing schools from hospital training programs into...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsVeterans Health CampaignANA\California initiative aims to raise awareness among civilian nursesThe ANA\C is partnering with veterans’ health expert Ali Tayyeb, Ph.D., RN, NPD-BC, PHN, on a new campaign to address healthcare for California’s military veterans. UNIQUE CHALLENGES According to the California Department of Veterans Affairs...

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Healthy Workforce6 Ways New Nurses Can Stand Up to BullyingDon’t become a victim of those who “eat their young”Wen was looking forward to a second career in nursing. She already had a biology degree and had spent six years working in a lab. While at the hospital with her mother, who was recovering from a stroke, Wen was deeply impressed by the nurses and decided...
UkraineHow to Help Ukrainians NowCatastrophic flooding has led to a grave humanitarian disaster. The volunteers could use our support.As you probably know, Ukraine has been at war for 20 months, since Russian tanks and troops crossed the border on Feb. 24, 2022. Last week, the war resulted in a new humanitarian and environmental disaster: the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, in an area...
My SpecialtyU.S. Air Force Nursing, 1st Lt. Noemi Kate AlversadoCaring for service members as an active-duty nurse officerClinical Nurse, PACU David Grant USAF Medical Center Travis Air Force Base Fairfield Tell us about your position and the facility where you work. I’m a first lieutenant in the Air Force Nurse Corps and a clinical nurse in the post-anesthesia care...

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FeatureThe Many Lessons of “Call the Midwife”The popular BBC series, set in mid-century London, continues to instruct and inspire modern nursesFirst aired in 2012, “Call the Midwife” is a BBC period drama, shown in the U.S. on PBS, that follows groups of newly qualified nurse midwives living at Nonnatus House, an Anglican convent in London’s East End in the late 1950s. The storyline of...
Healthy WorkforceManaging the Martyr ComplexKeeping patient care from becoming self-sacrificeLori has worked in the ICU longer than anyone in the department, including the manager. She is an excellent clinical nurse who is well respected. However, she has a reputation for being a martyr. She often complains that she’s tired because she’s...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsFireworks SafetyBe smart this Fourth of July and avoid a trip to the emergency departmentAs an emergency department nurse practitioner, I’m all too familiar with fireworks danger, but nothing could have prepared me for last Fourth of July. An Injured Child Around 9 p.m. that evening, a young father carrying his 4-year-old son bolted past...

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