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Content: Mary breckinridge -- Hospitals were for the really sick -- Jane delano -- An end to angels -- Delores o'hara -- Shots heard 'round the word,michael doss, the orange county -- Linda richards -- Susie walking bear yellowtail -- Lillian ward --The ethical,legal and social context of harm reduction -- Dialysis: prolonging life or prolonging dying? ethical, legal and professional considerations for end of life decision making -- Being a research participant: the nurse's ethical and legal rights -- Exploring ethical, legal, and professional issues with the mentally III on death row -- Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity -- Arresting drug-resistant organisms -- Reduce the risk of high alert-drugs -- Keeping your patient hemo-dynamically stable -- Medication-monitoring lawsuit: case study and lessons learned: another real-life case in nursing home litigation -- Antiemetic drugs -- Assessment and management of patients with wounded-related pain -- Acute abdomen: what a pain -- Pain management: the role of the nurse -- Anxiety and open heart surgery -- Respiratory assessment in adults -- Medical nutrition therapy; a key to diabetes management and prevention -- Understanding hypovolaemic, cardiogenic and septic shock -- Tracheostomy: facilitating successful discharge from from hospital to home -- Are you ready to care for a patient with an insulin pump -- Head attack -- Pediatric hospice:butterflies -- Doing more with less: public health nurses serve their communities -- A new way to treat the world -- Emergency preparedness -- A nursing career to consider: assisted living -- Fetal nutrition and adult hypertension, diabetes, obesity and coronary artery disease -- Nutrition through the life-span. Part 1: preconception pregnancy and infancy -- Nutrition in palliative care -- Nutrition in the elderly: a basic standard of care and dignity for older people -- Nutrition management of gastric bypass in patients with chronic kidney disease -- Men in nursing today -- Men in nursing: addressing the nursing workforce shortage and our history -- The male community nurse -- The state of the profession: ''code white: nurse needed'' -- An evaluation of stimulated clinical practice for adult branch students -- Nursing students' self-assessment of their stimulation experiences -- Mentoring as a teaching-learning strategy in nursing -- NCLEX fairness and sensitivity review -- How to read and really use an item analysis -- Nurses step to the front -- Mitigating the impact of hospital restructuring on nurses: the responsibility of emotionally intelligent leadership -- Predictors of professional nursing practice behaviors in hospital -- The winning job interview: do your homework -- Meeting the challenges of stress in healthcare -- Ethics and advance care planning in a culturally diverse society -- Jewish laws, customs, and practice in labor, delivery and postpartum care -- Understanding transcultural nursing