Nurses and The Good Samaritan Law

May 23, 2025

During protests in Denver in 2020, a group of off-duty medical professionals stepped in to treat people injured by tear gas, rubber bullets, and other crowd control measures. Some were nurses, others were EMTs or doctors—none were required to help, but they did anyway. In the process, several were injured themselves. This isn’t an isolated…

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Are You a Culturally Competent Nurse?

January 15, 2021

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman…” This quote is taken from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1966 that urged legal action against hospitals that were out of compliance with the Civil Rights Act. He said, “We put the blame…

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