Dedicate a Major Nursing Book to Your Favorite Nursing Hero

On National Nurses Week 2015, New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins will release her next riveting book: THE NURSES: A YEAR WITH THE HEROES BEHIND THE HOSPITAL CURTAIN. Alexandra is looking to the allnurses community to provide names of your real life hero nurses...
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MD-RN Relations -- There is Hope

One of the things that I most like about working in the ED at an academic medical center is working with physicians-in-training (residents) and medical students. I find the vast majority of them to be smart, kind, friendly, and respectful.
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LOOOOOK into my eyes!!

So I was working on a Med/Surg floor- You also need to know that I worked a second job at a different hospital in a maternity unit that was small- So small that it had no anesthesia on at night- that breaks down to no epidurals - in 9 years of OB, we did 3 epidurals...
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Certification : I Did it For the Money.

Money is an excellent motivator, and when the hospital that I worked at offered two dollars more an hour for certification, I was excited. I had been thinking about getting my certification for many years, so this was the perfect opportunity. After months of studying and stressing, I finally received my certification in GI nursing - CGRN!
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The Gift of Hope

Weeks after nursing school ended and I had passed the boards, I found myself in a newer community hospital in the most multifaceted unit that I’ve (since) ever worked. Our patient population ranged from general medical and fresh postoperative patients on one wing to hospice care and those suffering from cancer on the other.
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Lessons on why not to "Assume" things.

Got to work at 11AM and read over our facilities "Communications" board. Noted that one of the Part A residents had a medical decline over the weekend according to some of the notes ("Ms.X is noted to be more lethargic", etc)
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I am not the best, but I do my best!!

I started off working as an ER nurse few weeks ago, after being out of nursing work for almost two years and also from another country. I am still orienting.. yay!!!...Lots of things to learn and lots more to refresh....
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[Toon] Sticks and stones...

We all know this old childhood rhyme. And we also know that words and names CAN hurt us. What's your story? Have you been bullied or belittled? What did you do about it?
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