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Happy Pioneer Day If your family has been in the West for a few generations, there is a chance that you have some pioneer ancestors; so I found. William Handy, my 3rd great grandpa, came to join the Mormons that settled in this area from Warwickshire, England. He remained here half of a decade before returning to Iowa with his bride, leaving the Mormons. Recently, I visited Martin’s Cove, where William stayed a winter. They ended up having to eat saddles, moccasins, and old cowhide to survive. They also befriended the Indians and anyone that might help them survive. On his way to Salt Lake City with the Hunt company, they met the handcart companies that were dying daily for lack of food and the harsh cold. He chose to remain with Dan Jones and twenty other men near Devil’s gate, at the end of the prairie lands. Then he sent his wagon with...

Today is National Time Out Day in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers around the country. Taking a “time out” to confirm correct patient, correct procedure, correct surgical site, and other important information before every operative and other invasive procedure is a requirement of The Joint Commission Universal Protocol. Despite the requirement, 40-60 wrong-site surgeries likely occur in the U.S. each week. Time Out Day was created by the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses in 2004 to raise awareness about the importance of requiring the entire surgical team to pause before all invasive procedures to communicate as a group and confirm key information about the patient and procedure to help prevent errors from occurring. Wrong patient, wrong site, wrong procedures are sentinel events – described by The Joint Commission as “an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof.” To perioperative nurses, they are tragedies....