RN Response Network’s Bonnie Castillo talks about the side of EBOLA no one is reporting
Most have heard the news reports about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa but few have heard about the crisis of unprotected healthcare workers fighting to save their patients. Nurses on an Ebola ward in Liberia have been cutting up old overalls to serve as […]
Fracking! How much do you know? RN and University of San Francisco Professor of Public Health Barbara Sattler
One University of San Francisco Nurse’s War on Fracking: A Struggle for Public Health. USF’s Barbara Sattler is at the forefront of a growing national movement to shine a public light on the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, and its adverse […]
On Pluto: Greg O’Brien – Alzheimers
If you’re trying to understand what if feels like to live with Alzheimer’s..then Award Winning Author Greg O’Brien’s book, “On Pluto” is the book to read. “The book glows with honesty, intelligence and compassion, and, given the subject, is a suprisingly spirit renewing book.” Anne […]
The Baby Whisperer is here and parents you don’t want to miss what she has to say.
Every new parent has been there—sleep deprived, exhausted, and pacing the floor at 3:00 a.m. with an irritable baby who is having difficulty calming down and going back to sleep. In Secrets of a Baby Nurse, a medical professional relies on scientific research, personal study, […]
Bionic Pancreas is in the works…
Ten percent of Americans are living with Diabetes. Over 1 million have Type 1. Although a cure is being worked on, recent trials for a Bionic Pancreas are in the works and advancing. Dr. Steven J. Russell is leading those trials through Massachusetts General. Bay Area […]
Historic rally in Detroit — 3,000, led by RNs and community leaders ‘Turn on the water.’
Turn on the water! Thousands of registered nurses, community, labor, environmental and community activists marched in Detroit today in a resounding protests against the shutoff of water to tens of thousands of city residents – an action the marchers called a wanton violation of human […]
What ‘Nurse Jackie’ Gets Right About the E.R.: A special post by RN Theresa Brown
A lot of nurses hate the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie,” which will wrap up its sixth season on Sunday evening. Actually, to be precise, they hate the show’s lead character, the emergency department nurse Jackie Peyton. There’s much to dislike: She is an adulterer, a […]
RN and President of Massachusetts Nurses Association, Donna Kelly Williams
RN and President of Massachusetts Nurses Association, Donna Kelly Williams talks about The Hospital Profit Transparency and Fairness Act. Hospitals and large health care corporations are putting profits before patients with CEO’s making millions while patients and communities serviced by those hospitals are being put at risk. Most hospitals […]
An American Nurse
Passionate insight about nurses from Filmmaker/Director Carolyn Jones as she and Producer Lisa Frank join us to talk about their new documentary, An American Nurse. And a bit of fun with flashbacks from 1956 and a lesson about “algorithms”at the hospital.