Category: Medical

Article By: Aditi Pai | Jun 9, 2015 Some 95 percent of nurses own a smartphone and 88 percent use smartphone apps at work, according to a survey of 241 nurses conducted by InCrowd. The research firm conducts two- to five-minute online microsurveys.     Source: Survey: Majority of…

I received a call from a physician regarding him receiving a fax that did not belong to him plus it contained private patient information. I had a 30 minute dialog with the physician and he was pleading his cause that no doctors offices should no…

The Nursing Show | Nurse Practitioner Develops Diagnostic Smart Phone App.   Kicking off the news this week is a look at an article I found about a nurse practitioner who developed a smart phone app to help in the diagnosis of pediatric hypertension. This is not…

  The life-changing moment for Bill and Dinah Vogel came 14 years ago, when their youngest son Charlie—only two at the time—was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a neuromuscular disease that would confine him to a wheelchair. Both Bill and Dinah had busy careers, but…

Your Feel-Good Playlist for Those Tough Nursing Days | Scrubbed In: The Nurse.com Store Blog. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” — Bob Marley Bob Marley was on to something. Music can be effective as a non-pharmacologic pain intervention. It…

Sarasota Herald-Tribune 05/30/2013, Page A08 HEALTH / SCIENCE Study may lead to aggressive tack on hospital germs By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO — Infections in U.S. hospitals kill tens of thousands of people each year, and many institutions fight back by screening new patients…

5 Ways the Nursing Field Is Changing By Jill Elaine Hughes| March 7, 2013 Phoenix Forward: Perspectives Nurses a generation ago often had different goals than those in the profession today. “Back when I first started out in 1980, there were a lot of ‘refrigerator nurses,’ housewives…

Sarasota Memorial Hospital deploys devices for time-saving messaging, bed tracking and more… http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Regional-Articles/Features/Nurses-Use-Smartphones.aspx This is a great example of how technology can be used for improvement of patient care initiatives. I am proud to work at Sarsota Memorial Hospital and we were the first one…

Honey as a Dressing for Wounds, Burns, and Ulcers: A Brief Review of Clinical Reports and Experimental Studies I am a Back-Yard Beekeeper and am amazed at what Honey can do and thought this article really amazing.