Nurse turns inventor to help nursing mothers

By Laura Raines
Pulse editor

Like everyone else, nurses only get 24 hours in a day. “So if they’re going to help more people, you’re always looking for ways to do something better,” said Ellen Lundy, RN, IBCLC. She was willing to turn inventor to help more mothers who are breast-feeding. Full Article

Workplace advocacy

By Laura Raines
Pulse editor

Workplace advocacy - an umbrella term for programs designed to create a supportive, safe and healthy working environment - is a top agenda item of national nursing organizations these days.

“With good reason,” said Debbie Hatmaker, Ph.D., RN, SANE-A, GNA, and chief programs office and president of the Center for American Nurses. “We recognize that health care is going through some difficult changes that are greatly impacting the workplace. Nurses are working harder.” Full Article

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