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FeatureThe Ladies of Rockhaven SanitariumHow nurse Agnes Richards revolutionized psychiatric care for women at her Glendale asylumA century ago, psychiatric nurse Agnes Richards took a stand against the brutal mistreatment of female mental health patients when she founded Rockhaven, a pioneering psychiatric care center — one of the first of its kind in the nation. Path to...
FeatureCompanions in Care: The Healing Role of Hospital Therapy AnimalsHow furry friends comfort and delight patients — and nurses!HOSPITALS MAY FEEL OVERWHELMING — full of quick-paced clinicians, beeping and chiming alarms, bright lights, and hard flooring that even the best Danskos can’t soften. Within that clinical cacophony, a hospital therapy dog can be a calm and healing...
Nursing Book ClubLife on Delay by John HendricksonMaking peace with a stutterIn his memoir Life on Delay, John Hendrickson examines his stuttering through an unusual lens: other people’s perspectives. He uncovers just how much stuttering has been both a personal and professional obstacle. A High Profile Interview Hendrickson...

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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...
Nursing Book ClubStepping Back from the Ledge by Laura TrujilloA Daughter’s Search for Truth and RenewalStepping Back from the Ledge is a short memoir (only 195 pages) in which author and journalist Laura Trujillo details her personal history of trauma and her mother’s suicide. She tries to connect the dots as she blames herself for the death, but the...
Nursing Book ClubThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’RourkeThe personal and social impact of unexplained and chronic conditionsIt can be difficult to separate our physical condition from our psychological or emotional state. Symptoms like fatigue, headache, and digestive upset can indicate anything from viral infection to too much stress and too little sleep, and after a while,...

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Nursing Book ClubBellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David OshinskyA colorful (and gruesome) history of big city medicineTo understand the beginnings of charity hospitals is to understand the relationship of society to its poor and sick. In his 2016 book Bellevue, David Oshinsky, Ph.D., director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine, describes the...
My SpecialtyPsychiatric Nursing Instructor, Edmund Alfonso, West Coast UniversityTraining nurses to tackle the mental health crisisEdmund Alfonso, RN, MSN-Ed. Lead Faculty, Mental Health Department Nursing Program, West Coast University, Ontario Please describe the arc of your nursing career. How did you choose your specialty? I finished my BSN at West Coast University (WCU) in...
My SpecialtyCorrectional Nursing, Tran Chu, Arrowhead Regional Medical CenterSafely providing care and advocacy for county jail inmatesTran Chu, RN, BSN Assistant Unit Manager I / Charge Nurse Med-Surg/Telemetry/Correctional Floor Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton Please share the story of your nursing career. Growing up, I envisioned myself working in the medical field....

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