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Nursing Book ClubEarly by Sarah DiGregorioAn Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being HumanDelivering a baby at 27 weeks led journalist Sarah DiGregorio to write a well-researched book about prematurity, from the causes to treatment options to the hard choices facing parents and the healthcare team. Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter Mira began...
My SpecialtyLabor & Delivery, Gayane Cherechyan, Adventist Health GlendaleCare and advocacy for new moms and babiesGayane Cherechyan, RN, BSN Lead Charge Nurse/ Relief Shift Supervisor Labor & Delivery Adventist Health Glendale Please tell us the story of your nursing career journey. When I was nine years old, my mom was in the hospital for five months. She...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsImplicit Bias Training LawReducing racial disparities in pregnancy and childbirthFour years ago, California enacted a law requiring hospitals to provide implicit bias training for perinatal care staff. A new report from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) examines how hospitals are complying with that law. S.B.464 Revisited...

RN Career Events

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...
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...
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 Education

My SpecialtyLabor & Delivery, Terri Smith, Huntington HospitalLeading the Family Birth Center on the night shiftTerri Smith, RNC Patient Flow Coordinator, Inpatient Obstetrics Huntington Hospital, Pasadena Tell us about the arc of your nursing career journey and how you landed where you are now. My journey really began during the birth of my first baby. Having...
Nursing Book ClubA Good Time to Be Born by Perri KlassRevisiting the birth of pediatric medicineI once heard Oprah Winfrey say that American women are “the luckiest girls on the planet.” Perri Klass, M.D., pediatrician and author of A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, would argue that timing is a major...
Profiles In NursingMartha Ballard (1735-1812), Colonial Midwife and DiaristHer remarkable diary reveals a legacy of nursing in 18th century AmericaShe lived and died before Florence Nightingale was even born, but Martha Ballard’s diary still survives, providing us with a remarkable record of the lives of pioneer women and the practice of midwifery during the earliest years of the United States....

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