The Palm Desert campus of Cal State San Bernardino was awarded $20,000 by a local nonprofit to deliver mental health treatment to children in the Coachella Valley affected by the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced Tuesday. The Palm Springs-based Anderson Children’s Foundation gifted the funds to expand CSUSB’s Neurofeedback Center, which will now be able […]
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A WW 2 military transport plane bows in the sky to honor of Doris Howard above Desert Regional Medical Center, heroic nurse who helped transform El Mirador Hotel into Torney General Hospital, in 1942. “That plane flying over, I felt like the Queen of England,” says Howard. The hospital held a ceremony in her honor. […]
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Prosecutors announced Thursday they will not retry a Corona nurse who was found guilty 15 years ago of the bludgeoning death of her live-in boyfriend but whose conviction was later invalidated by a judge who cited ineffective defense counsel, resulting in her release from state prison. Kimberly Louise Long, 45, was represented by the nonprofit […]
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Traveling nurses Amanda Picchi and her boyfriend Kyle Murray, just made the final arrangements for Amanda’s father, Tom Picchi, a beloved nurse at Desert Regional Medical Center. “We watched for months now people losing their family members and it’s so shocking when it happens to yourself and your family, even though we’re nurses and we […]
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The threat of a nurses strike has loomed over Southern California for the past few weeks, as hospitals face increasing numbers of critical patients. Nurses at three hospitals say their employers were alarmingly unprepared, and have limited access to personal protective equipment. Today, HCA Healthcare released a statement saying the strike has been called off. […]
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive-care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Monday received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Helen Cordova sat patiently and joked with other medical personnel as she was given the Pfizer vaccine — administered […]
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Over 160 pairs of white nursing clogs lined the lawn facing the US Capitol on Tuesday in memory of the nurses who’ve died during the coronavirus crisis. The shoes were set there by members of National Nurses United, the largest union for registered nurses in the US. At the vigil, the nurses implored the Senate to pass […]
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Most of us are lucky if we can find one true passion in life. During this pandemic many of us are becoming more introspective about our life choices, but in the case of ER nurse and professional musician, Tad Worku, he is finding this challenging time to be the perfect convergence of his two passions […]
