Welcome to Nurse Talk where laughter is the best medicine!

WE’LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK TO INTRODUCE OUR NEW CO-HOST RN SHAYNE MASON.

If you missed Phyllis Katz talk about her hip surgery in India, or DeAnn McEwen’s impassioned description of scripting and rounding…check this out. Or listen again. You know it was good!

RN DeAnn McEwen gives us a “spirited” overview of the marketing practice scripting and rounding now being used in the healthcare field. What’s scripting and rounding all about? Listen to find out.

Stay tuned for this story—you won’t want to miss Phyllis Katz. Phyllis is here to talk with us about her wonderful new book, Hipwrecked, My Health Insurance Sucked so I Went to India for Surgery.

This week Lynn Ruth talks about a favorite all-purpose remedy her mother used: baking soda. Told only as Lynn Ruth could—it definitely harkens memories from the old days!

Special guest at the National Nurses United Staff Nurse Assembly May 17-20 in Chicago. is Anna Deavere Smith presenting Tell Me Where it Hurts, Stories from the front lines of nursing.

Coming up…Hayward, California Kaiser closing pediatric unit? Parents say, not on their watch! And they are watching…