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WHAT WE'RE BLOGGING ABOUT
* In their post "Improving the Discovery and Care of Pressure Injuries in the Emergency Department," nurses Jonathan Nover, Bernadette Springer, and Eric Peterson discuss a project that drastically reduced pressure injuries at their hospital (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-8os).
* "[I] quit my job and hike[d] the Appalachian Trail for five months from Maine to Georgia with my husband. . . . It's paradoxical that I'd gone hiking to forget about nursing, yet I was reminded about it with each step," writes nursing professional development specialist Sharon Geidel in her post "A Nurse's Lessons from Hiking the Appalachian Trail" (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-8pl).
* In her post "'I Notice, I Wonder': Demystifying the Research Process for Nurses," nursing professor Alexa Colgrove Curtis calls for greater nurse engagement in research-and considers what might be preventing it (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-8pb).
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