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2020: The Year of the Nurse lifts off

January 1, 2020

When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 2020 would be designated The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife,…

COVID-19 and The Year of the Nurse and Midwife

April 1, 2020

In 2019, with the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth pending in May of the following year, the World Health…

Midcareer nursing advancement

June 28, 2020

Reflect, be objective, and tap into your network. (more…)

Nurse Keith’s Corner: Doubling down on nursing

July 14, 2021

As the American nursing profession turns a corner into the next chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic, many nurses may be…

Nurse Keith’s Corner: Overcoming 21st Century Angst

June 8, 2021

When the 21st century dawned several decades ago, the next one hundred years — and the new millennium — were seen as…

Nurse Keith’s Corner: Public health’s PR problem

August 4, 2022

Does public health need a George Clooney? Public health has always had a public relations problem. While innumerable nursing school…

Nurse Keith’s Corner: The nurse as Hermetic messenger

November 4, 2021

Nurses fulfill myriad roles in the course of their work: counselor, healer, priest, rabbi, psychopomp, advocate, protector, confessor, educator, coach,…

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Nurse Keith’s Corner: The nurse’s lament

June 3, 2022

As a career coach who fields daily calls from nurses across the United States, I hear many stories about the…

Nurse Keith’s Corner: The Trauma of Healthcare Workplace Violence

November 18, 2022

It’s no secret that jobs in nursing carry inherent threats to personal safety. From needlesticks and back injuries to infection…

Nurses and emotional Teflon

February 3, 2020

Nurses work hard, and the nature of their labor exposes them to many emotionally-charged situations, strong feelings, moral and ethical…

Out-of-the-Box Nurses Setting the Pace

May 14, 2021

If you ask the average American on the street what a nurse does, the answer will most likely involve hospital-based…

The COVID-19 pandemic: Rethinking your nursing career

September 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world on every level imaginable, and nurses’ lives and careers are not immune. Nurses…

The nurse as their own worst critic

March 10, 2020

Even though nurses are the largest segment of the healthcare workforce and serve as the veritable backbone of the industry,…

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Walking in Uncertainty: The future of American healthcare

February 17, 2022

Existential angst has been our constant companion over the last two years as the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shaken our healthcare…

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