It’s a long way up but it’s good when you get there: from homeless to RN When Tiarra Barrera-Hammond was in her early 20s, she'd just arrived in California and struggled to make ends meet. As the mother of two little children, she'd been living with her partner in Las Vegas, but she'd had to leave w...
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Police officer studying to be a Registered Nurse uses his new skills to save someone’s life Nurses often save lives. Police officers often save lives. So it’s maybe no wonder that Mitch Heaney, who works in the blighted community of Highland Park (an enclave in Detroit), turned out to be a hero. Aft...
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The week of May 6 -12 has been “National Nurses Week” for over twenty years now, and this year too it will be a unique occasion to celebrate the role nurses play in delivering the highest level of quality care to their patients. To kick off the week, we’d like to highlight just a handful of stories...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Weary Nurses I read with a tearful heart and eyes the article submitted about remembering our calling as nurses. I have been nursing for 36 years, called by God when I was 4 years old. I just wanted to help heal not just the body but the soul. I got my dream and have loved my caree...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Remember The Calling When I wake in the morning, I never know what God has in store for this ole’ Nurse. As I drive to work, thoughts of what can happen stream through my mind. Will I loose my patience, or will the twelve hour shift take a toll on me, seven hours in? Will my mind s...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Rashmi Sharma As a usual night shift, I was taking handover from my co-worker from previous shift. She continued her patient reporting, and I was being attentive throughout that. She mentioned about a new patient admitted during her shift. After receiving report from her, I headed...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Why I Became a Nurse by Ann Mathiews MSN, RN, CEN, TNCC The sun was shining. The blinding light reflected off the apartment pool surface as Lori and I sat sipping frozen margaritas and watching our four children splash in the shallow baby pool. Laughing as freckles emerged on our s...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Bernadette by Bernadette M. Bailey, R.N. I was working in Labor and Delivery about 2 years into my nursing career, when I was assigned to a young patient who was in labor. This young girl had a hard life, was poverty-stricken and surrounded by friends and family who abused drugs on...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Donna By Donna Rich, R.N. Seven months ago my husband announced that he was just laid off from his marine construction job. I looked around our dream home, one block from our beloved ocean…the Olympic-sized pool in the backyard and an upstairs deck for our teenagers to hang with th...
Read more →Nurse On The Go: Lori O’Keefe I have been a nurse and a certified diabetes educator for the past 11 years. I would like to share a experience I had with one of my patients. We know that we can prevent or at least delay complications related to diabetes by keeping the blood sugar as close to normal a...
Read more →Labor and Delivery I remember it was my first month on the Labor and Delivery deck of a small New England Naval Hospital as a Naval Nurse Corps officer. I had never worked Labor and Delivery in my 7 years prior while in civilian service and was intentionally trying to do everything by the book. My p...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: From Emergency to Elementary After working in a state-of-the-art pediatric emergency department for thirteen years, my career took a different path…sort of. I had triplet daughters that were starting Kindergarten and with no extended family anywhere near our city, I felt that I nee...
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