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3 weeks ago | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nurses OnscreenAn inspiring documentary about life before and after his disabling accidentWhen I was a student at Cornell University in the early ‘70s, my roommate asked if I minded if she invited a friend of hers from high school over for dinner. That evening, in walked the most handsome man I’ve ever met: His name was Christopher Reeve.
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3 weeks ago | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Aaron Severson |Catherine Rhodes
FeatureOn hospital ships, cargo planes, and in jungle tents behind combat lines, tens of thousands of brave nurses risked their lives in U.S. military service. ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 7, 1941, First Lieutenant Annie G. Fox was making her rounds at the modest 30-bed Station Hospital in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A dedicated member of the Army Nurse Corps since 1918, she had risen to the position of chief nurse at age 47, and had just arrived at the sleepy Pacific outpost the month before.
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1 month ago | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nurses OnscreenNoah Wyle stars in a buzzy new medical drama set in a Pittsburgh EDThirty years after “ER,” Noah Wyle has returned to the emergency department in a new HBO Max series called “The Pitt,” where he plays seasoned ER attending physician Michael “Robby” Robinavitch. Created by former “ER” writer R.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubA historical novel about American nurses serving during the Vietnam WarThe title of Kristin Hannah’s latest historical fiction novel, The Women, refers to the roughly 7,000 U.S. military nurses who served on active duty during the Vietnam War. The story follows the career of Frankie McGrath, a young socialite from California who decides to join the Army Nurse Corps after the death of her older brother, a young Army officer.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubThe Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern WorldI’m sure that in a public health nursing class long ago, I heard the story of how removing the handle of the Broad Street pump ended London’s cholera epidemic of 1854. I’m just as sure that I didn’t give it another thought until I picked up this latest edition of Steven Johnson’s 2006 book about that same epidemic. All epidemics have a first case, known as an index case.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubA hospice nurse's account of patients as they face the end of lifeMost of us have no experience with what happens between a terminal diagnosis and the funeral home. Hospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos, RN, has been through that process repeatedly and wants to take the mystery and fear out of it for the rest of us. Vlahos is an unusual nurse. She came to nursing as a way to support herself and her infant son, not as a long-term career goal.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubA memoir of illness that is also glimpsed in the documentary American SymphonyAn engrossing memoir of illness by an award-winning young columnist, whose battle with leukemia is also glimpsed in the 2023 Netflix documentary American Symphony. Susan Sontag once said there is a separate kingdom for the well — those who take their good health for granted and enjoy life without medical worries.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubA dark and mordant psychological thrillerThis mordant psychological thriller follows a young Scottish physician, recovering from opioid abuse, who discovers that there may be a serial killer loose in his new hospital. If a nurse or physician loses their license due to substance abuse, most licensing boards have strict guidelines for returning to work.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubA vivid portrait of a marriage strained to the breaking point by chronic illnessForty years ago, when I was a nursing student, we learned the phrase “We are bio-psycho-social-sexual beings,” which was a new concept at the time. It seems that all these decades later, we are still trying to figure out what implications that interconnectedness holds for our health.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
workingnurse.com | Christine Contillo |Catherine Rhodes
Nursing Book ClubThe Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure TuberculosisIn 2015, Maria Smilios was a biomedical editor at Springer Publishing when she stumbled upon the statement, “The cure for tuberculosis was found at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island.”Intrigued, Smilios spent seven years researching the full story of Sea View, and discovered the Black nurses, called “Black Angels,” who played a pivotal role in the hospital’s work.
