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An Engineer’s Approach to Nursing

It was the middle of the night on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center burn unit in Nashville when a patient bed went on the fritz....
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

A Platform of Health Care

Sara Russell Rodriguez, MSN, MPH, RN, has seen far beyond Wisconsin, and she says she’s determined to turn that vision into better health...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

Palliative Care: The Time for the Talk

For Lyndsay DeGroot, the ICU wasn’t a calling as it is for many nurses. Rather, it was an epiphany. “My aunt died of sepsis very...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

A Back-to-Basics Approach

It wasn’t a crisis; not an emergency. Scott Newton, DNP, MHA, RN, handles those in his sleep. After three full decades in nursing, as a...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

The Knowledge to Embrace Life

All of us will die one day. Nothing can change that outcome. So, let’s talk about it, normalize it, and when that time comes, learn to...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

Resident Expert

Roberto Roman Laporte turns outsiders into insiders, a skill he had to learn early. Roman Laporte helped a South Florida health care...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

In Perfect Balance

Her sister Eugenia, a DNP, had opened three successful weight-loss clinics, as her own boss controlling her work-life balance, and was...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22

Listening, Learning, Earning Trust

Thirty armed Salvadoran gang members surrounded the car, stopping it so that it couldn’t go forward or backward. Inside, Meghan...
United States of Nursing | 10/07/22