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...
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...
End of life (EOL) care has all the time been a selected interest of mine. I do know the frustrations that usually arise when providing end...
He got here out of the room – slightly stuffy, with a respiratory rate of 28 and shallow respiration. His O2 saturation was 95%. He was...
Changes in lab values often give us clues about what is going on on with our patients. Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a severe, uncontrolled diabetes characterised...
