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CNO Roundtable 2021Lessons LearnedQ: What is your assessment of the way the healthcare community responded to the pandemic? What would you do differently?Raye Burkhardt Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center Compared to our peers in technology and business, healthcare has historically been slow to change and innovate. The pandemic has proven that healthcare can innovate and adapt quickly — we have...
CNO Roundtable 2021The New NormalQ: What changes that your hospital made in response to COVID-19 will remain in place?Raye Burkhardt Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center The pandemic has brought a heightened focus on infection control practices, which have long been part of hospital practice, but are now more closely monitored. Staff and managers have had...
CNO Roundtable 2021Moments of InspirationQ: Please share a pandemic-related story that you found especially moving or inspiring. Raye Burkhardt Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center One of our frontline nurse managers, Maria, had an elderly COVID-19 patient whose prognosis was not good. Maria arranged for limited family visitation — they were able to come in and see the...

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Profiles In NursingCol. Julia Stimson (1881–1948), Army Nurse Corps SuperintendentA decorated officer, she led 20,000 nurses during WWIOnce the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Armed Forces, Julia Catherine Stimson, RN, served her country as a nurse, a social worker and a leader — including an 18-year tenure as superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, the longest term in the Corps'...
My SpecialtyMagnet Program Director, Gena Welch, Adventist Health GlendaleProviding leadership during the pandemic and beyondGena Welch, RN, BSN, PHN, CPN, CEN Director of Magnet Program / Director of Clinical Practice & Education Adventist Health Glendale Your childhood had a big impact on your choice to become a nurse. Tell us about that. I grew up on a farm in very...
FeatureOverload: The Simple Improv Exercise That Shines a Light on Nursing StressHow constant interruptions lead to errors and burnoutSome years ago, while growing my consulting business and working on my second book on nurse communication, I took a job working 12-hour weekend shifts on a secure unit for residents with dementia. I loved working with this population when we were...

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FeatureOne Year Later: Lessons from the Front Lines of the PandemicThoughts on leadership, stepping up when needed, and communicating with our patients' familiesEditors’ note: Tiffany’s column “Nursing on the Front Lines of COVID-19” was published in March 2020. It detailed her experience as an ICU nurse in Washington State, treating the first coronavirus patients in the country. This is her follow-up to...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Third VaccineWhat to know about Johnson & Johnson’s entry in the fight against COVID-19As you’re undoubtedly aware, the FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to a third COVID-19 vaccine in February. With antivaxx propaganda and conspiracy theories running wild, here’s what every nurse should know about the latest shot. And Then...
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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