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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 21 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Navigating a Changing Profession “We face as nurses huge challenges and how do we take advantage of the technology we have without losing the art of nursing.”STUART FISK, CRNP, Director, Center for Inclusion Health - Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA  As...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 18 2019
Mediterranean Diet The Mediterranean diet has stood the test of time. It is one of the healthiest diets that an individual can follow and leads to many positive health outcomes. It is easy to see why health care providers commonly refer their patients to this way of...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 16 2019
Taking a Closer Look at the Paleolithic Diet and the Whole30 Program In the blog, The Latest Nutrition Trends: From A to Z, we briefly reviewed some of the common nutrition trends that we often hear of while working in healthcare. The benefits of eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and engaging in...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Oct 14 2019
What You Should Know About Breast Cancer Screening According to the National Cancer Institutes’ (2019) latest statistics, over 268,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. While research has made great progress in the area of treatment, the best...
By: Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC Oct 11 2019
Intermittent Fasting Diet Plan Obesity is a well-known worldwide epidemic that is a risk factor for developing heart disease, diabetes, certain types of cancer, and many other health issues. As the obesity epidemic continues, people have developed interest for weight loss...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Oct 9 2019
Keto Diet: Healthy or Harmful? With a multitude of popular diet trends circulating in society today, it might be difficult to discern the different aspects of each. As a healthcare provider, it is important to understand these fads as nutrition plays a significant role in the...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 7 2019
BMI, Obesity and Weight Management Normal weight, overweight, and obesity can be measured by body mass index (BMI). BMI is calculated by weight (kg) divided by the square of height (m2) (Jensen-Yanovski et al, 2014). The table below explains the categories associated with BMI...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 4 2019
A Nurse's Review of Activity Trackers: Top Picks for Monitoring Your Health I am always struck by the amount of people who are using wearable technology such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, but I didn’t know whether something like that would be right for me. At first, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to add...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 1 2019
On the Lookout for Burnout, Depression, and Suicide Risk As nurses, we work long hours whether on our feet doing direct care, writing budgets, dealing with staffing, traveling to see patients at home, or teaching the next generation of nurses. We know how varied our roles can be! For me, it’s...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Sep 26 2019
The Latest Nutrition Trends: From A to Z Over the past several years, there seems to be an increased interest and acceptance of healthier, cleaner eating and a renewed attentiveness to health and wellness in the general population. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift and moving away...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Sep 20 2019
Winters' Formula Winters’ formula is used to evaluate respiratory compensation when analyzing acid-based disorders and a metabolic acidosis is present.   PCO2 = (1.5 x HCO3-) + 8 ± 2   Winters’ formula gives an expected value for...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Sep 18 2019
Delta Ratio The delta ratio is a formula that can be used to assess high anion gap metabolic acidosis and to evaluate whether a mixed acid-based disorder is present.   Delta ratio = Delta anion gap/Delta HCO3- = [AG -12] ÷ [24 - HCO3-] The...
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