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Nurse Morgan Etheridge on the coronary care unit.

A Critical Calling
Nursing practice at its best on a busy intensive care unit

It’s just before 7 in the morning, and here on the coronary care unit on Nelson 5, nurses are huddled in pairs around computer monitors, intently reviewing how patients fared during the last 12 hours. It’s morning report, a time when nurses on the nightshift transfer their patients to their daytime counterparts.

“We had to intubate one lady in Room 24,” nurse Andrea Redman is telling daytime nurse Morgan Etheridge, clicking through pages of lab stats, vitals, med lists, assessments and protocols. “She was anxious, depressed and uncomfortable.”

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Maryland’s senators; convocation talk.

Facts & Figures, pocket style.

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OPENERS

Have You Heard?
Sometimes it seems like everything good can be bad for your health.

Behind the Scenes, 24/7
Plugged in and on the move with ABC.

Let’s Get Engaged
The upcoming employee survey will measure more than just satisfaction.

Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Green Spring’s occupational therapists get their patients behind the wheel.

Crushing Headaches
How do you spell relief? A new center is helping patients put an end to head pain.

fEATURES

The Nurse Who’s Never Missed a Day
How is it humanly possible not to call in sick in the last 20 years?

A Voice for Grad Students
How the Graduate Student Association empowers Ph.D.’s-to-be.

Out of Africa
Throughout history, racial segregation has evoked anger and shame. But for Mankekolo Mahlangu-Ngcobo, the pain is profound.

A Loominous Life
Once Linda Apuzzo learned that animal hair can be spun into soft yarn, she was hooked.

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On Broadway
Spring has sprung, and with it has come a welcoming burst of color.

LETTERS

Dear Dome
We open the mailbag to see what’s on our readers’ minds.