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A Nurse Making a Difference: Nurse Alice Benjamin

Daily Nurse

I didn ’ t plan to be a nurse practitioner, especially not in the emergency room. When he was in the military, he began smoking cigarettes because they would say to smoke them if you got him. We must maintain the integrity of our nursing education. That ’ s not how we ’ re going to solve the nursing shortage.

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A Nurse Making a Difference: Nurse Alice Benjamin

Minority Nurse

I didn ’ t plan to be a nurse practitioner, especially not in the emergency room. When he was in the military, he began smoking cigarettes because they would say to smoke them if you got him. We must maintain the integrity of our nursing education. That ’ s not how we ’ re going to solve the nursing shortage.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Alice Benjamin

Minority Nurse

Right out of high school, I never knew I wanted to be a nurse. But I was the eldest, and my dad was a retired serviceman and smoked cigarettes in the military. Nurses were overwhelmed, overworked, under-resourced, and often needed to be appreciated more in ways that nurses found meaningful.

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VA Nurses Struggle in Uncertain Times

Daily Nurse

Like many of their federal colleagues, nurses who staff the Department of Veterans Administration (VA) are dealing with tremendous uncertainty. In a bit of good news, following increases in shortages in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, nursing was reported as a shortage by fewer facilities in fiscal year 2024.