Although the H1N1 influenza pandemic has been officially declared over (you’ll be able to read the statement from the World Health Organization Here), it is not...
The September issue of Health Affairs published a research article that examined how patients use acute care services. The study analyzed 354 million visits to health...
25t The annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin and Wound Care was held September 30 to October 2, 2010, in Orlando, Florida. This gathering of...
For those of us who take care of patients, pain management is all the time a challenge. I rarely see a patient in my practice who...
My prematurity story begins about 10 years ago. While pregnant with my first child, I watched family and friends undergo their pregnancies without incident. I planned...
As a clinical editor, I spend a good portion of my time reading journals, blogs, articles, news, and anything related to nurses, that affects nurses, or...
The 71st Scientific Session of the American Diabetes Association took place in late June, and a number of other headlines appeared in our newsfeed. Here are...
August 9 the rape and murder of a 31-year-old intern at a government hospital in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengalraised concerns about sexual violence against...
In my last post I described a difficult case where the patient’s sister, who was a nurse, was attempting to limit the quantity of pain medication...
This yr’s holiday season has not been without incident in our home. Illness has reared its ugly head, because it often does when excitement builds, and...
