Category: Nursing

Capt. Janice Lufkin, RN, a retired decorated Navy nurse and former head nurse of the cardiac care unit at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, died May 13 of heart failure, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported June 5.

Lisa Surratt, RN, a nurse in the intensive care unit at Quincy, Ill.-based Blessing Hospital, retired June 1 after 44 years.

A nurse couple saved a man whose heart stopped after suffering “low oxygen levels” in the middle of a flight to Baltimore, The Washington Post reported June 2.

Ypsilanti, Mich.-based Trinity Health Ann Arbor hosted a dedication ceremony May 19 for the Lavone A. “Shorty” Witting, RN, Perinatal Wellness Center, named for one of its nurses.

Nursing’s economic value and the reimbursement of it has been neglected for decades, the American Nurses Association argues, and now it is pushing for key changes to restore how the profession is valued.

A California nurse executive suffered a near-fatal spinal cord injury after a tree limb cracked, fell and crushed her in a Costa Rica adventure park, according to a May 31 ABC7 report.

Time in the operating room. Overseeing a team of 12,000 nurses. Administrative work. Family time. This is just a glimpse into the day-to-day life of Mercy’s chief nursing officer. 

The Massachusetts Nurses Association is questioning UMass Memorial Health’s stated reasons for closing a maternity ward in Leominster, Mass.

Racism and discrimination — from both patients and colleagues — are widespread in the nursing industry, but few nurses report such incidents, new survey findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed. 

East Carolina University Health in Greenville, N.C., has developed its own internal travel nurse staffing agency, according to a May 30 news release.