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FeatureObstacles to Mental Health CareDepression, anxiety and burnout among nurses skyrocketed during the pandemic. Getting help is not always so easy. The Fall of 2020 wasn’t the first time I’d sought professional mental health support, but it was undoubtedly the most urgent. As the pandemic surged through our nation and the ICU where I worked became overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, anxiety,...

Nursing Book ClubInferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine ChoA troubling account of postpartum psychosisWho we are is not only a product of our DNA, as we all know. Our culture and the sum of our individual experiences also help to make us into the adults we become. We ignore this at our own peril, as author Catherine Cho reveals in her postpartum memoir,...

Nursing Book ClubThe Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer and Care by Anne BoyerAn unflinching look at breast cancerAnne Boyer, author of The Undying, is an essayist, a published poet, and one of the more than 250,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year. Although there are many books about illness, Boyer notes that there are...

My SpecialtyPsychiatric Emergency Nursing, Sandy Kesler-Newman, Arrowhead Regional Medical CenterCaring for vulnerable behavioral health patientsSandy Kesler-Newman, RN, BSN, PHN Unit Manager, Psychiatric Emergency Department Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton Tell us about the trajectory of your life and career. I have been a nurse 33 years, 22 of which were in the ED. The way I got my...

Nursing Book ClubHidden Valley Road by Robert KolkerSchizophrenia and the eternal question of nature vs. nurtureTo say that the story of the Galvin family is unusual is an understatement. The parents, Don and Mimi, were born out West in the 1920s. Both were children from unusual families who married young and shared the goal of raising a large, close-knit family of...

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