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Back in 2010, we ran a post by our then clinical editor, Christine Moffa. It was called “Prospects for New Nurses: Thoughts On Graduating During a Downturn” and it generated quit e...
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I wrote previously of the anti-choice attack on palliative
care and the vulnerability of providers whose protection rests on proof of
their “intent” when providing palliation. The powerful forces...
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It’s no news to most GeriPal readers that a cadre of anti-choice
forces targets end-of-life care. In their sights are common end-of-life
decisions and palliative support for those decisions. The y...
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Women, especially working women with families, often are their own last priority—the job and family come first. This week is the 13th annual National Women’s Health Week, which started on Mother...
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I was at a dinner a meeting of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars, a bioethics career development program for junior faculty, when an interesting issue came up. Several folks at our table argued tha t...
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Of hygiene practices at one public institution, Hobson wrote, “The visitor found a woman with a broken leg twelve days after she had been brought to the hospital in the same miserable garments i n...
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By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Most of you are probably aware of the AHA’s revised CPR guidelines that were issued in 2010. They include a major change in the resus citation...
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Me with Ruth Hancock out side of KBR*
As many of you in health care are probably familiar, this week is National Nurse's Week capped by National Nurse's Day on Saturday May 12th, the birthday of Flor ence...
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By Marcy Phipps, RN, a regular contributor to this blog. Her essay, “The Love Song of Frank,” was published in the May issue of AJN. Earlier this week I took care of a man who nearly coded...
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By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Many people, myself included, have mixed feelings about Nurses Week. But since many institutions have finally gotten the message that “I love nurses rdquo...
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