Blogger: David Blumenkrantz
Bio
David Blumenkrantz’s professional experience includes an eight-year stint doing documentary work and freelancing in Africa, where he traveled extensively covering a wide variety of relief and development-related social issues. He ran a photography training course for Eritrean freedom fighters in Asmara, and spent more than two years running an information department for the Undugu Society of Kenya, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for street children and the urban poor. Upon his return to the United States in 1994, Blumenkrantz worked for the Los Angeles Times and various other publications as a freelance photojournalist. He once ran a photography class at the Watts Towers Art Center for the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. He also spent eight years teaching with the Los Angeles Unified School District—seven at the elementary level and one year at Millikan Middle School Performing Arts Magnet. In 2004 he joined the journalism department faculty at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches documentary journalism and photojournalism.
Recent Articles

Doctor apologizes for attacking nurse
Sadly, workplace violence is increasingly common. See what happened after one ICU nurse was stabbed.

The nursing job market overview
“There aren’t enough nurses! We need more nurses!” All this talk about the nursing shortage, but where are all the jobs ? Here are quick, simple facts, projections, and answers to your questions.

Can scrubs be designed to make you happy?
What you wear can have a positive effect on your mood…and help establish intimate connections. Here’s how.

Upcoming books, shows and movies featuring nurses
Culturally speaking, this was a banner year for nurses in America. Here are just a few places where nurses are turning up next.
Scrubs Magazine
Work rage
Have you ever been in a hostile workplace situation? Or just a really frustrating one? Enough to make you open the emergency chute?
Rebekah Child
Nursing school finals frustration
Student nurses are frazzled and panicking right now. You’ve been there. Got any advice for us?
Ani Burr
Stranger in a strange land
Male nurses are almost not existent in the clinics. Other than the MDs, I am the only guy on the floor.
Rob Cameron
The nursing “trade”
Is nursing considered a career or a trade? I am not just a skilled craftsman, I am an educated professional.
Sean Dent
A doctor in nursing uniform?
I love hearing about how the nurse practitioner is the “next best thing” in the medical profession. Is it?


