SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A Gallup Honesty and Ethics poll showed that nursing has been rated the most trusted profession for the twentieth year.
The poll is a reflection of the trust Americans have in their nurses even through the pandemic. According to a news release from Baystate Health, in the United States, there are nearly 4.3 million registered nurses and marks one of the highest-paying professions. Baystate...
The best way to honor National Nurses Week is to shine the spotlight on a handful of Hawai‘i’s finest caregivers.
Since the days of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, nurses have played an essential role in societies. Often viewed as the very heart of health care, these professionals are beloved for the countless and vital services they provide — from conducting routine physical exams and taking detailed medical...
For the days that you just need a little motivation to get through your shift, or you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, sometimes, a perfectly-placed nursing quote might be just the thing you need to keep going.
Or maybe you’re a nursing student wondering how on earth you will find the strength to make it through the rest of the semester, when hearing a nursing quote for students will completely change your perspective....
“I would choose The Citadel all over again”
For as long as she could remember, Catherine Hill wanted to be a nurse. That was how her story began at The Citadel, when Hill matriculated as a knob in August of 2017 from her home in North Garden, Virginia. She entered college with an Army scholarship and a declaration to major in nursing — military service, nursing and attending The Citadel, all traditions in her family....
Heading into the third year of a wearying pandemic, America's health care workers report significant levels of burnout and even anger about the complications of politics and rising incidents of abuse from patients and their families.
But three-fourths of them still say they love their jobs, an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll of doctors, nurses, paramedics, therapists and others finds. It is a show of...
How many Olympians hold down full-time jobs even as they train for their sport?
And how of those jobs are in nursing, in a two-year pandemic?
So if you see Nina Roth chasing a nearly 2-year-old around a park in Madison, stopping only once in a while to do a set of pull-ups on the monkey bars herself, don’t worry – she’s not lost her marbles.
She’s just …...
From saving lives off the job, achieving career milestones and more, here are 22 nurses who made headlines this year:
1. Sandra Lindsay, RN, a critical care nurse and intensive care unit director at New York City-based Long Island Jewish Medical Center, had her scrubs placed in the Smithsonian Museum of American History after becoming the first American to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14, 2020.
2. On Feb. 28,...
Float Theme “A Healthier Future” Celebrates Those Making a Difference Today and Tomorrow
Kaiser Permanente announced today its 2022 Rose Parade® float participants, which include Kaiser Permanente employees and front-line heroes that served our communities over the last 20 months during the pandemic. Millions of health care workers around the world have faced the challenge of providing care for patients with COVID-19,...
PORTSMOUTH - The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched hospitals and medical staff to the limits, but two special women at Portsmouth Regional Hospital say they have never considered doing anything else - even now.
A spokesperson for the Portsmouth hospital said Chief Nursing Officer Michelle Dodd, RN, and Associate Chief Nursing Officer Megan Gray, RN, are nurse leaders of like mind and heart. And, when it comes to nursing during a...
Brandon Collings was introduced to nursing as a 10-year-old child, after his father was critically injured in a motor vehicle accident.
It was nurses, he recalled, who briefed the family when they arrived at the hospital following the accident and also after every single one of what seemed to Collings like a lifetime of surgeries. Nurses were there to update them on his father’s condition, to support Collings’...
It’s a second shot at life for Sandy Miller, the team lead at IU Health's Central Indiana Cancer Center, after she ditched her corporate career 16 years ago.
INDIANAPOLIS — "Every nurse here would testify that nobody comes to work for the paycheck," said Sandy Miller, the team lead at IU Health's Central Indiana Cancer Center. "It’s a passion.”
The work isn’t always easy. ...
When Canadians Rana Allawnha and her sister Rodanna first began travelling stateside as children, they never dreamed they’d cross the border to save lives as adults. “Our parents owned a convenience store in southwest Detroit,” says Rana. “So, growing up, it wasn’t unusual for us to be in the U.S. every day.”
Today, both sisters retain dual Canadian/American citizenship. Rana is a Registered Nurse at...