… at the time,” said Ives Erickson, “and he began to share with me the vision for Boston Hope.”  Dr. Ives Erickson had recently retired from the hospital after more than two decades as its vice president for patient care and chief nurse. But with the country’s largest public health crisis … this way by such an esteemed organizations as the American Red Cross.” This is the latest recognition of Ives Erickson’s work during the pandemic. In 2020, she was …

… center. We see patients of all kinds and as nurses we oversee the entire hospital for any codes or rapid responses that require an ICU nurse at the bedside.   South … has a practice called "Heartbeat in a Bottle." Can you describe this practice for us?  Prior to the pandemic, some nurses would print out a dying patient's last … kind words and gestures to patients’ families when they came in for their daily visit or when I could see that they were hardly eating or sleeping due to the stress. …

… her team are finding out, thanks to a grant from The Peter L. Slavin, MD Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Over the past … and I've also had really positive ones. This work was inspired by a not-so-great visit with a telehealth practitioner who I don't think was trained in telehealth … “Even though you're not being seen below the neck, dressing professionally for a visit sends a strong message.” Second-year CSD student Nick Wilder learned the …