HANDOFF
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Mernurse Ahoy!
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André Chambers, a nurse at the Betty Ford Center near Palm Springs, California, is not a fish. But the blue-haired, muscled leather competitor and civil rights advocate is Aquaman, both on his Instagram account and in the new documentary, Merman, screened last month at the Tribeca Film Festival. As a queer Black man tattooed with ocean waves and King Triton, Chambers talks about being comfortable in his skin and becoming Aquaman in this fascinating profile.
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ICAN Is Back
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Bipartisan lawmakers re-introduced the Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act to the U.S. Senate last week in hopes of moving forward with the bill that stalled last year. The bill, which four bipartisan legislators already re-introduced in the House of Representatives in
April, would remove barriers to practice for NPs and expand their scope. Undeterred by American Medical Association opposition, nearly 400 AANP members went to Washington, DC, in mid-June to advocate for the bill.
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A Tragic Death
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When an elderly patient left a Majestic Care facility and lay down in the middle of the road in Livonia, Michigan, on Sunday night, several nurses followed and put her in a wheelchair. As they returned, a car swerved to avoid the wheelchair and hit Pebbles Lockhart, a 42-year-old nurse who died at the hospital. The CEO called Lockhart “an amazing caregiver that provided exceptional care to residents and created magic for all those around her.”
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