The 2015 National Nurses Week theme is “Ethical Practice. Quality Care” and this theme is demonstrated every day with every patient and family interaction by the superb nurses at Harvard Vanguard. Our nurses primary commitment is to their patients and families and ensuring they receive safe, high quality, patient centered health care. Harvard Vanguard nurses are partnering with their colleagues in designing and improving the processes of care. These efforts, as well as the day-to-day care they provide,

At one point or another – maybe at the age of two or five or even older – many children get scared to go for a visit to their pediatrician.  There’s lots of reasons for their anxiety, and many of them come from not knowing what to expect:  what will they see when they look in my ears?  will it hurt when they tighten that band around my arm?  and what about shots (okay,