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Nurses Help Nurses Succeed, Stay Safe, and De-Stress

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Thirty nurses at three medical centers in Southern California were chosen to receive the honor, which includes a $10,000 gift from the foundation. Nurses were selected based on “a bias toward action; a capacity for self-direction; originality and creative instincts; courageous and bold thinking; and the potential to achieve even more.”

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Critical Care Association President Wants Nurses to be Heard

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A self-proclaimed millennial, Amanda Bettencourt , PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is serving a one-year term as president of the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). Q: What are the most pressing issues for critical care nurses?