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The View Suffers Backlash Even After Apologizing For Nurse Comments

The phrase “just a nurse” has a long history in nursing and grates on most of us. But the examples Kelley Johnson gave in her monologue highlight a true difference between doctors and nurses...

HIPAA Will Prevent You From Telling Friends, Family And Facebook What Your Work Is Really Like

Yesterday I overheard a nursing student snark, "Yeah, this is why I'm in nursing school -- so I can pass trays." And if I hadn't been up to my eyeballs in other things to do for my patients, I would have stopped and said: You've already missed the point entirely. I'm not sure why you DO think you're here.

Take A Valium, Lose Your Kids, Go To Jail

In Alabama, anti-drug fervor and abortion politics have turned a meth-lab law into the country's harshest weapon against pregnant women.

One Year Later, Nurses Feel Unprepared For the Next Ebola

On a recent morning in June, Cassandra Clark spent 45 minutes in what is known as an Ebola “space suit” — an enclosed plastic hood, smock, plastic apron, and two layers of gloves and shoe coverings. The gear was part of the 57th contagious virus drill that the University of Minnesota Medical Center had executed since last November.

Night Shift From Hell, My Mistake Almost Cost Someone Their Life

Night shifts are horrible, and anyone who says they don’t mind them is lying. I was on my third in a row and I was tired – the sort of tired where your eyes feel hot and sunken, and blinking takes three to four seconds, and you never knew a reflex could be so torturous...

People Carry A Cloud Of Bacteria. Is This The New Fingerprint?

In a finding that's sure to alarm germophobes everywhere, scientists say people emit a "microbial cloud" of bacteria wherever they may be.

10 Warnings For All Working Parents

I've said this before, and I'll say it again, you don't know what tired is until you're a parent. Exhausted doesn't even begin to describe it. It's kind of like every ounce of energy has been sucked out of you, leaving you fighting a constant state of exhaustion. And when you also work outside the home, you come home to more work.