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The "Fat" Deception For years nutritionists and doctors have touted that eating fat is wicked, it will kill us. On the surface, this seems to make sense. Read More

Nurse and Parent: Overload Alert! She pushed her cart over my way, all loaded up with a baby in a car seat and a three year old riding up front in the grocery cart disguised as a car. Read More

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) - More Than Just a Cold Every winter more than a million children under the age of 4 fall ill with RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and many thousands of them will be hospitalized for treatment. Most recover. Read More

Don't be an Autobot When I'm a patient, nothing makes me feel more like I, the patient, am on an assembly line, than when my nurse comes across as an Autobot. Read More

But Why? Fingersticks and Common Sense In my hospital nurses were required to order a stat lab serum glucose whenever they had a critically High or Low Fingerstick result. My question was...Why? Read More

5 Things I Wish I Knew Earlier in My Nursing Career: Building Relationships Looking to rapidly build relationships at your new (or old) job? Then read on for some quick tips that move you into the fast lane as you work to become part of the team. Read More

Tipping (Sacred) Cows and Evidence-Based Practice Part I How do you know if what you're doing for your patient is best practice or simply the most perpetuated practice? Read More

Falsifying documentation A patient of mine whom has multiple foot wounds whom I see for wound dressings made a complaint to me that one of the previous nurses had attended 2 out of the 3 wounds on his foot only. Read More