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Beyond 'The Last Lecture'
For Randy and Jai Pausch, nurses displayed humanity at its best.
Read how their nurses helped them fight, then prepare for the end.

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Fitting In the Exercise
Even if you walk laps around your facility during your shift, you still need exercise to benefit body and mind.
Learn how and why to make time.
Stroke of Genius
The next chapter of rehab involves high-tech robotics, virtual reality and interactive gaming.
Find out why researchers are excited.
House Healthcare Reform Bill: What's In It for Nurses?
Like all political propositions, healthcare reform has left nurses wondering what's in it for them.
Get the scoop.
H1N1 Flu Vaccine & Asthmatics
Is the 2009 H1N1 vaccine safe for people with asthma? Clinical trial helps researchers sift through the myths.
Get answers.
Job-Landing Strategies: Atlanta

Looking for a job in nursing? Listen to advice from colleagues and recruiters.

Hear their tips.
What Makes Nurses Tick? Final Survey!
Does your job as a nurse ever interfere with your home life? What motivates you to go to work every day? What's your ideal vacation? Take this series of just-for-fun surveys and find what other nurses think!
Take the fourth and final quick survey!
New Book Club Pick!
The media can make or break an image. So, wouldn't the absence of nurses on the big and small screen --- for example, in House --- or an inaccurate portrayal, such as in Grey's Anatomy, impact the profession and recruitment? You bet, say Sandy Summers, MPH, MSN, RN, and Harry Jacobs Summers, co-authors of Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk.
Read about this book and watch an interview with the authors.
2010 Salary Survey
How has the economy affected nursing salaries? Help us help you find out!
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A Problem Un-Masked
How many N95 respirators are available to help protect nurses against H1N1?
How limited is the supply?
The Toughest Talk
End-of-life experts share some tips for nurses facing the most difficult conversation of all.
Learn how nurses can help a patient face his mortality.
In Nurses They Trust
Nurses must encourage the development of trust in relationships with their patients.
Understand how important trust is, and encourage it.
Best Nursing Team 2010
Does your team adapt? Thrive? Have passion? Let us help you shout it from the rooftops!
Find out how to enter!
CE: ICD-9-CM Coding

The principal diagnosis may not always be the most important or significant condition.

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Lifestyle for Nurses
You are nurses but you are also parents, spouses and friends with hobbies, houses, pets and so much more.
Take some you time.
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In the News
Due to Higher Insurance Costs, Healthcare Practitioners Must Talk Money
As health insurers require people to base more treatment decisions on out-of-pocket costs, physicians should learn to talk to patients about money, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Read more.

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