In honor of 2010 being the International Year of the Nurse, and May 12th being International Day of the Nurse, these next few articles will feature a look at the history of nursing, noteworthy pioneers and where the world’s 15 million nurses will take today’s present health care needs in the [...]
Since the beginning of March My Nursing Uniforms has been unable to fill orders for Dickies scrubs. As such we've removed them from our web site (or at least the checkout button). Customers can no longer purchase these scrubs. The reason is the wholesalers are changing (the license to produce Dickies [...]
“If you don’t get it while you are in there when you go home good luck.” Mary age 74 who suffers from congestive heart failure, coronary disease, high blood pressure had stomach surgery and spinal fusion. She has been in emergency, the hospital and rehabilitation. “Following you home that never occurred [...]
it would be beneficial if somebody were helping you transition because when you and the patient come out of the hospital here you are 2 dummies, one sick and one dummy. What do you do? Where do you go? You make a million phone calls. You do a lot of things [...]
This series of articles will discuss the impact of chronic illnesses on the elderly, and what innovative programs have been tested to cope with this challenge. There are 10s of millions of Americans who have more than one chronic disease and many of them are over 65 years of age. 20% [...]
Way back in the past a patient went to a hospital to die. Times have changed with the hospital playing a multitasking role not only for medical emergencies and healing, but it is a place of research and a point of access for day surgery and outpatients. At one point all [...]
We begin a new series of articles that will address the impact of the baby boomer cohort on the current health care system in the United States. Up to 90 million people born between 1947 and 1964 are entering their later years in life. Currently comprising 12 % of the nation’s [...]
This article will explore the development of alternative patient care philosophies and will attempt to explain the differences between the terms used to describe the various approaches. This article will begin will a discussion of conventional health care and then the following models of health care will be described: Holistic health [...]
In medieval times the term hospice meant a refuge for ill or tired travelers. In other countries hospices are specific buildings where care is provided only for patients of life limiting illnesses. However, in the US hospice care is a term that denotes care to the terminally ill patient at the [...]
Not only do you have to take care of your nutritional needs with healthy snacks, you also need to consider the main meals of the day. Ask any busy nurse, or heck any working professional, with a family what they feel is one of the biggest struggles they face every week [...]
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