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At a community hospital emergency department in El Paso, Texas, Annika Andersen, RN, CEN, manages the fast-track care area. A former Army combat medic who studied nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she writes about minor emergency injuries for Biology Insights and builds shadowbox displays for dried plant specimens.

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