That’s what Alexandra Robbins wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post last week (“Nurses make fun of their dying patients. That’s okay.”): “Humor has a place in hospitals, even if it’s dark, even if it’s derogatory — as long as it isn’t cruel.” Do you agree? And if you agree, how do you dra...
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“Dream grounds for a dream hospital”: in this promo film from 1950 about a model Kaiser hospital, we see babies being slid through walls in “drawer-like bassinets”, suited husbands smoking endless cigarettes awaiting their wives’ childbirth, and hospital rooms with sliding doors that open up to a te...
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A heroic nurse stepped in to save an elderly patient from a Doctor that was about to cut into the patients vein with a scalpel in order to take a blood sample. Doctor Vincent Osunkwo received the job of senior house officer at Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise after he was the only one to appl...
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Nurses from Seattle Children's Hospital got down and groovy for an online video challenge to their very own remake of Abba's Dancing Queen. The nurses went all out with disco moves and sparkly bell bottoms. Watch the fun video below.
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Annell Farris Congratulations to Annell Farris, the latest winner of the ongoing Nurse Photo Contest! Farris graduated from the School of Nursing at John Hopkins University in 2008 when she was 59 years old and began her career as an operating room nurse. Annell will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift c...
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Scrubbing In, a new MTV show documenting the assignments of nine Aya Healthcare travel nurses in two Orange County hospitals, will premiere tonight (October 24, 2013) at 10pm ET/PT. In a recent press release, Aya Healthcare noted that it’s hoping the show will inspire the next generation of nurses:...
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Gerber Abarca as “Spiderman” rehearses his poses while dangling off the building to begin scaling the hospital exteriors to wash windows and surprise patients at Texas Children’s Hospital on Friday, July 19, 2013, in Houston. PHOTO BY MAYRA BELTRAN. A group of superheroes, disguised as window washer...
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In The American Nurse, photographer and award-winning filmmaker Carolyn Jones, through quiet photographs and deeply moving text, tells the personal stories of 75 nurses from across the U.S.–and in doing so gives voice to millions of women and men playing an important role every day in America’s heal...
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Some of the photos we have received from nurses since starting the nurse photo contest in 2013. Since we announced the Real Nurse Photo Contest last month, we’ve received some amazing photos we would like to share with you. You can find them all on display at Real Nurse Photos. We’ve got pictures of...
Read more →When U.S. Navy and other military personnel are deployed overseas they can thank Immunization Nurse Specialist Stephen W. Dolak, BSN, BSEd, RN for protecting them against vaccine-preventable diseases. His initiatives have dramatically improved the immunization program at the U.S. Navy's Fisher Branc...
Read more →By Christina Bravata As a nurse, you know the skills you have acquired throughout your career are crucial to the healing process of your patients. But do you realize just how important they are? A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that there is a direct correlation betwee...
Read more →On January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and took the lives of 230,000 people and injured more than 300,000. More than one million Haitians were left homeless. One year later, Haitians are still trying to recover. In the aftermath of this horrific quak...
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