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Does CPR Help?

Life of a Nurse

Every minute counts when there is a respiratory arrest leading to a cardiac arrest; the team has precious little time to keep significant damage to the heart, brain, and other body systems from occurring.

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Gallup Poll: Nurses’ Ethics Still Top the List

Daily Nurse

Physicians still rate high at 59% despite a 9-point drop from 65% in 2019. Pharmacists are consistently good performers in the Gallup poll, although they, too, have seen a drop from 64 to 55% between 2019 and 2023. Dentists, currently the fourth most ethically viewed profession at 59%, also took a dive from a 2019 result of 61%.

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ENA, ACEP Push for Swift Passage of Workplace Violence Legislation

Daily Nurse

Emergency nurses and physicians from the two organizations – which partnered in 2019 on the No Silence on ED Violence campaign – spoke during a Capitol […].

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Electronic Cigarettes: Identifying College Students Using the Ask, Advise, and Refer Tobacco Cessation Model

American Nurse

2019; Soneji et al., 2019; Jatlaoui et al., Update: product, substance-use, and demographic characteristics of hospitalized patients in a nationwide outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury-United States, August 2019-January 2020. Retrieved from [link] Chaumont, M., van de Borne, P., Bernard, A.,

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Lung Cancer Rates in Middle-Aged Women Now Higher Than in Men

American Nurse

The researchers looked at the rate of lung and bronchus cancers diagnosed from 2000 to 2019 and saw the rates of decline between 2000-2004 and 2015-2019 were greater in men than women.

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Claire M. Fagin PhD, FAAN, RN (1926-2024)

Nursology

Her husband, Samuel Fagin, mathematician and electrical engineer, died in 2019 and son, Joshua, died in 2020. Fagin, notable nurse leader for decades in the U.S. and worldwide, died January 16, 2024, at the age of 97. Dr. Fagin is survived by her son, Charles. A guardian is … Continue reading Claire M. Fagin PhD, FAAN, RN (1926-2024)

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From Patient to Nurse: The Inspiring Journey of Gibby Ryan

Daily Nurse

Both sisters were hired and started at the hospital within three months of each other, with Ryan beginning in June 2019, and her sister in September 2019. They both still serve in the same unit together. “I know it’s hard for families to trust someone they don’t know,” she says.

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