Off the Charts

Unidentified Civil War male nurse at Mt. Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D.C., in uniform

Men were not absent from nursing’s history. They worked in...

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Nurses have become fluent in the language of “burnout.” We use the word to describe a range of internal states such as exhaustion, disengagement, frustration, and compassion fatigue, states that are often attri...

During a safety huddle, one of my colleagues, an oncology nurse and breast cancer survivor, spoke honestly about what cancer felt like to her. “Every day you’re scared. Is the treatment or the cancer going to kill me?” she said. “You think about it all the time.” Her words struck me because of how open and exposed they felt. There was nothing polished or inspirational about t...

During rounds in an outpatient clinic, I noticed staff cleaning vaginal ultrasound probes between patients with a quaternary ammonium disinfectant wipe (a low-level disinfectant appropriate for use on devices that come in contact ...