Whether she is on high-tech rescue missions as a flight nurse in Colorado or on mission trips, providing care with few resources to people in villages in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Kelly Thompson, RN, CFRN, is known for making a difference in patients’ lives. Flight nurse Kelly Thompson, RN, holds an infant during her
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When COVID-19 made its way to the Navajo Nation in March, a combination of circumstances fanned its flames. And by May, the Navajo Nation — which covers an area of roughly 27,000-miles that includes sections of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico — had surpassed New York as having the highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rate in
Sometimes, it takes a village to get personal protective equipment to the healthcare workers who need it during a pandemic. Rachel Smith, BSN, RN, director of nursing at Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo, Colo., found that to be true for nurses and others working at the front lines for U.S. rural hospitals. But Heart4Heroes stepped
Heather Anderson, BSN, RN, Director of the Medical Surgical Unit at Adventist Health St. Helena in northern California, received an unexpected call soon after she arrived home from work on August 19. Heather Anderson, RN Anderson, a member of the facility’s disaster preparedness team, needed to return to the hospital immediately because winds had shifted
The story of the Health Wagon, a nurse-driven mobile health clinic that provides care to several thousand medically underserved people in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, is one of great risk and greater reward. The Health Wagon, the oldest mobile health clinic in the nation, has delivered care to people in isolated towns along winding,
Toni Wilburn, RN, thrives as a critical care nurse. And after 30 years in the profession, Wilburn thought she was prepared for anything. Toni Wilburn, RN But even this nursing veteran, who is a critical care nurse at Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville, Ga., admits she never imagined a time when nursing would be so
If 2020 hasn’t been difficult enough for nurses, add a Category 4 hurricane barreling toward a hospital. That is exactly what happened in the early morning hours of Thursday, Aug. 27, when Hurricane Laura hit Lake Charles, La., home of Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. Hurricane Laura’s winds of up to 150 mph ravaged local power
Cheedy Jaja admitted that before an interview with Nurse.com he felt overwhelming anxiety. The interview would delve into his experience and lessons learned while Jaja volunteered in Africa during the Ebola outbreak. At first, he thought recalling the experience would be a piece of cake. After all, it’s over. But what he has found as
Nurses, you shared with us your Favorite Famous Nurses in our 2020 National Nurses Week content survey. Here’s how you voted! Our founding nurses No. 1 on your list of favorite famous nurses was the woman who started it all, the founder of nursing and Lady with the Lamp — Florence Nightingale! May 12, 2020
Nurses were among the trained healthcare providers ready for deployment as Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, pummeled parts of the Bahamas with 185 mph winds and threatened Florida’s East Coast. Teams of nurses and other healthcare providers have been part of the nation’s disaster response effort for many of the hurricanes that have devastated
Editor’s note: We have partnered with The Wound Care Education Institute to raise awareness about the devastating effects of wound care knowledge gaps in the U.S. healthcare system. Our goal is to educate clinicians to empower themselves and their organizations to combat these gaps through wound care education. Teaching healthcare professionals about wound care has taken Nancy Morgan, MBA,
Carolyn Phillips, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, AOCNP, said she loved the meaningful work she did as an oncology nurse and nurse practitioner. But that love and devotion came at a cost to Phillips’ well-being. She, like many other nurses, had no time or way to process the grief she felt. She was emotionally numb and in
At 92, Barbara Jury, MS, RN, isn’t practicing her profession on the floors of the California Hospital Medical Center anymore. But she’s still involved through volunteering and is happy to share her stories of nursing’s past as a nursing pioneer. Barbara Jury, RN, MS Jury practiced from the 1950s to the 1990s and experienced important evolutions in
Lisa Ousley, DNP, RN, FNP, saw a need in healthcare and created a solution. Lisa Ousley, DNP, RN, FNP A prototype of Ousley’s instructional dermatology surface models earned her first place and $7,500 of seed money at the NursePitch event during the American Nurses Association’s 2019 Quality and Innovation Conference last year. The conference focuses
Trauma queen. Boo boo crew. Chaos coordinator. Renal rocks. Amanda Abdala, RN, BSN These are among the messages on the handcrafted nurse-themed badge reels and holders Amanda Abdala, BSN, RN, sells online in her Etsy shop. The surgical floor nurse and entrepreneur offers more than 500 badge reels, badge holders and crocheted gifts, including coffee
When we started The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, we knew we needed a way to ensure that celebrating teamwork was a part of our award ceremony. After all, it was clear to us when Patrick was in the hospital that each of his individual nurses was as good as she or he was because
Today’s centralized, medicalized system of care is unequipped to handle the surge of patients with “diseases of despair,” such as substance abuse, states a recent report. Given nursing’s history, it makes sense to arm nurses with the tools they need to step in and address the unmet public health crisis of diseases of despair in the 21st
Established more than 40 years ago, National Nurses Week is now a well-known national, annual healthcare event. A wide variety of programs take place in all 50 states beginning May 6 with National Nurses Day and ending May 12 on the birthday of Florence Nightingale. This week honors nurses who work in all different areas of clinical practice, education,
You are celebrated during National Nurses Week for the many contributions you make to the nursing profession and the healthcare of our nation. The word “excellence,” in fact, is one we hear more than any other during Nurses Week. Hospital executives and administrators, board members, physicians and various healthcare professionals join in the celebrations because they