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By: Feb 24 2010
My diverse career as a nurse I wanted to be a nurse for as long as I can remember. I started volunteering at a local hospital as soon as I was old enough and when college application time care around I was certain that nursing school was where I wanted to be. After a 4 year...
By: Feb 17 2010
Putting a face on ostomy complications Both the American Journal of Nursing and Nursing2010 published articles in their February issues on ostomy management and complications.  I read these articles with great personal interest but I wondered, where were these articles 10 years...
By: Feb 15 2010
To report or not to report? Last week, a nurse in Texas was acquitted after a being on trial for reporting a doctor for practicing bad medicine.  Here are some of the details from the case, which came to be known as the “Winkler County nurses” trial:Two...
By: Feb 10 2010
Beauty from the inside out Recently I read the story about Heidi Montag and her obsession with plastic surgery.  Looking at the before and after pictures, it was difficult to see why someone as beautiful as she was before the surgery, wanted to have plastic surgery at...
By: Feb 8 2010
Everything I know about nursing, I learned in… wait – when did I learn that? For those of you who follow me on twitter, you know that I try to write a daily nursing tip. Sometimes, these tweets generate discussion. One tip in particular that seemed to get people talking was this:“Don't palpate both carotid...
By: Feb 3 2010
Lancet retracts MMR vaccine and autism risk paper Earlier this week, Lancet retracted an article published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield in 1998 which stated the MMR vaccine could increase childrens risk of developing autism.  "According to the judgment of the U.K. General Medical Council'...
By: Feb 2 2010
Is there an app for that? Technology – seems many people either love it or hate it. I must admit that I am one of the former.  It amazes me that my children won’t ever have to do a paper by solely researching in textbooks or encyclopedias, or dare I even...
By: Jan 25 2010
Trusting nurses to influence health care Last week, Gallup released the results of the survey: Nursing Leadership from Bedside to Boardroom: Opinion Leaders' Perceptions. The results of this survey, performed on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), revealed that...
By: Jan 22 2010
Disaster Preparedness: Education and Training   Hi, I'm Karen Innocent, Director of Continuing Education and Conferences for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. I'm very delighted to have this privilege and opportunity to share insights on continuing education and other issues...
By: Jan 20 2010
Education is good, but action is better Since last April, a big part of my job has been reading, researching, and writing about H1N1 influenza. Many friends, family members, and colleagues were aware of this and came to me for information about the virus, and then, in the fall, about...
By: Jan 19 2010
Improving World Health Starts at Home If you think about the issues affecting world health today, it's easy to be overwhelmed. Just thinking about the challenges we're facing in the United States is overwhelming enough; so you can imagine the task the U.N. faced when it...
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