Handling Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare by Julie Nyhus FNP-BC Check out my new article in the September 2022 American Nurse Journal: Handling hazardous drugs in healthcare. It’s a topic we don’t discuss enough in nursing and healthcare, but need to. If you don’t get anything else from this article, read the part on protecting yourself […]

It is a wonderful thing that many aspects of nursing have changed over time. One change, in particular, I am glad has disappeared is mentioned by Hood and Leddy (2014) in that hospitals used to staff with “laywomen who were either widowed or repenting from sins of impurity” (p. 38). Wow!! Nursing, as a profession, […]

Be sure to catch the latest edition of American Nurse 2022 – 2023 Education and Career Guide My article, Travel Nursing During a Pandemic, is on page 22.

Today, after completing a health history and physical exam on a 33-year-old male patient, after discussing the findings with him, and after giving him his paperwork, he replied, “Thanks, Hon,” and walked away. For the Record For the record — my name isn’t Hon and today was the first time I’d met this man. Throughout […]

The practice of tonglen in meditation Like everyone else lately, I’ve brought the habit of worry to a whole new level. And, like everyone else, it’s for the same reasons . . . crumbling rights for women in America, loss of basic healthcare for women . . . waiting, waiting, waiting for this uneven state […]