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The Pulse

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November 2002
Louisville Slugger
It’s easy to let Deborah Tuggle, MN, RN, a critical care clinical nurse specialist, tell her own nursing story. It’s one of family tradition and caring, entrepreneurship and education and a passion for the best in all of nursing, not just her specialty of cardiac care. Read
 
Experience Counts
Marcelline Macdonald, ME, RN, knows nursing shortages. She lived the big one of the 1960s as an OB nurse in Billings, Mont., and has survived staffing crises of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, right up to today. Read
 
Happy Endings
Wouldn’t it be great if, at the end of the day, the patients got up and went home healthy? It happens just that way in the very real Hollywood world of Erinn Tracie Brown, RN—at least when she’s working as a technical adviser for nursing on television and
movie sets. Read
 
Danger Zone
The image of nurses is almost always one of comfort, help and gentleness. People turn to nurses when they are sick or in pain. It is particularly ironic that nurses, whose job it is to soothe and reassure, are the ones most often in danger. Whether it is violence, hostility, sexual harassment or discrimination, nurses are near the top of the victims list. Read