Humility Mixed With The Human Condition
This week's guest in The 2RNs Who's Who in the Hospital series is a nurse with many years of experience in pediatrics. She has spent much of her career as a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and now is a charge nurse in the preoperative area. When she's...
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6 Common Foods Children Choke On
A Child's Airway Did you know children have much smaller airways than adults? In fact, kids have larger tongues in comparison to their airway and can often have a floppy epiglottis, ("a flap in the throat that keeps food from entering the windpipe and the lungs")...
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The 2RNs – What Are We Thankful For?
We, The 2RNs, wanted to use our blog this week to express our thanks for everyone who has helped us this year. In 2018 we began a new adventure. We became authors and entrepreneurs. Our goal was and still is to help prepare kids and their parents for medical...
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Find Out How This Doctor is Making a Difference in The Lives of Children Living With Sickle Cell Disease
One of The Leading Treatment Centers for Sickle Cell Disease is in... Did you know that UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is at the forefront of treating children and young adults living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)? This disease has an abnormal shaped protein in...
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What is a Ward Clerk? Read and find out.
This week our guest in The 2RNs Who's Who in the Hospital series is a perioperative ward clerk. She is well respected and is described by many as the rock or foundation of the unit. She does it all! Answering the never ending phone calls, multitasking, such as...
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