Emotional Wounds Remain
Interviews with doctors and nurses around the region revealed a sense of relief over a waning pandemic leavened by fears that the virus could surge again. They use different terms to describe [...]
Interviews with doctors and nurses around the region revealed a sense of relief over a waning pandemic leavened by fears that the virus could surge again. They use different terms to describe [...]
Judy Persichilli Recognized for Her Leadership During COVID-19 Pandemic TRENTON, N.J.—June 22, 2021—The New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA) today praised the decision to name the new [...]
The Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative (SNJPC) is pleased to announce that Lakeshia Montgomery has been named Director of Professional Education and Training. Montgomery has been with the [...]
Outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD) are ongoing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Guinea. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing this [...]
New evidence gathered by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) suggests COVID-19 is causing mass trauma among the world’s nurses. The number of confirmed nurse deaths now exceeds 2,200, and [...]
The New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA) welcomed President-Elect Sandra L. Foley during a recent swearing in ceremony. Nursing educator Foley, elected to the position of president-elect, [...]
Since the development of COVID-19, normal is no longer a word used in North Jersey hospitals, especially in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Every delivery is considered a possible [...]
Patricia Turner, BSN, RN, CWOCN, CWS, a wound ostomy nurse, wanted to do more to help her colleagues during the pandemic. Patty, who lives in Roxbury and is a NJSNA Region 1 member, started the [...]
As an ICU Clinical Director at Monmouth Medical Center during the pandemic the priority for JoAnn Wolfson, DNP, RN, CCRN, NJSNA Region 4 member, was to keep the ICU staff safe by ensuring a safe [...]
Rachel Koshy DNP, ANP, NP-C, RN, NJSNA Region 1 member, is a Supervisory APN in the Observation Unit at University Hospital of New Jersey in Newark. As the number of observation patients [...]