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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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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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It’s been an intense spring, one marked by necessary cuts. Some are exciting and liberating and others are more raw, but all are ultimately for the better.
Like many of you, I suspect, I often write...
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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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I’ve been pretty quiet lately. I have some updates I’ll post later this week, but today seemed like a great day to look at (Weekly) Grace in Small Things.
--My husband had to work today, s o...
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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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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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By Michael Fergenson, senior editorial coordinator The dangers of smoking cigarettes are well documented, from the terrifying commercials about what smoking does to our bodies to the warnings rig ht...
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By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Each year, vast quantities of unused medications are discarded in household garbage or flushed down toilets, and end up polluting our rivers and o ceans...
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