All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

It features the testimonies of more than 5,000 nurses, who expose how patients are being cruelly 'stripped of their dignity' and routinely suffering avoidable deaths. They say it has become ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

bathrooms and nursing stations were being turned into makeshift areas for patients. Nurses warned such practices put patients at risk as staff were unable to access vital equipment such as oxygen ...

A “devastated” nurse revealed four warning signs that eventually led to her being diagnosed with liver cancer. Marissa Antonio was just 39 when the 19cm tumour was discovered, when her ...

She said that after the initial shock of being given the news, she knew from being a nurse and having the education from being diagnosed that she was going to live a normal life. HIV was not going ...

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Tina Bitangcol spends her days doing what she loves: when the Edmonton woman is not working as a registered nurse in labour and ... listening to it as opposed to being like, ‘Oh my God, what ...

In negotiations, nurses plan to confront industry decisions that undermine patients’ health and well-being and fail to address chronic RN recruitment and retention issues – in favor of increasing ...

Nurses come and go abruptly ... If language itself is being annihilated, Joudah’s poems challenge us to ask, what is the function of speech in a time of such untold suffering?

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