So What Happened, Exactly
This is the first installment of a blog by Brandi Chase called Lymphoblaster. It is an online chronicle through Leukemia. Living in Australia with her husband, film composer Randin Graves, Brandi, grieving the loss of her father 2 months prior, began to feel ill. On […]
Nurses Rally Daly Plaza, Chicago | May 18, 2012
Nurse Talk will be there. Will you? Robin Hood Joins Nurses’ Campaign to Heal America – Chicago Friday, May 18. What in the world? The registered nurses of National Nurses United cannot wait to welcome one of the world’s leading defenders of common people to […]
In My Day…My Mother Used Vinegar for Everything | Lynn Ruth Miller
When I was a kid, my mother used vinegar for everything. If I got a bee sting she rubbed vinegar on it and if the kid next door bit me, she poured vingear on him and called his mother. There didn’t seem to be anything […]
Bill Moyers Interviews National Nurses Director RoseAnn DeMoro Sunday, May 13 on Call for Robin Hood Tax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AWWkBk81A NEW YORK- Moyers & Company, a current affairs program featuring Bill Moyers and airing on PBS stations nationwide, Sunday 6p.m. – most PBS stations will run a segment this Sunday evening with RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the largest union and […]
Another Life Lesson Learned | Love Your Nursing Life | Bobbi McCarthy
Sitting in the waiting room I watched the others as we passed the time…were they waiting for a loved one, like I was? Or were they just the driver waiting to pick up the patient post- test? The elderly woman sitting by the large fern […]
iTriage on NurseTalkSite.com!
We recently found the coolest app we’ve ever seen or heard about! We all know what triage means, Nurse Talk brings you iTriage. iTriage was founded in 2008 by two emergency medicine physicians to empower people to make better healthcare decisions, and improve healthcare delivery. […]
Like Pulling Teeth. Hospital Closures. Organ Donors. Love Letters.
Shayne and Casey have some fun with the story about the dentist who pulled all of her ex-boyfriend’s teeth! At least as much fun as you can have over such a tragic loss. Dumping a girlfriend is never easy but having all 32 teeth pulled out by her is the worst that could happen to anybody. Listen and find out just how this happened. There is a moral to the story too. A fairly obvious one at that.
We also visit with San Leandro Hospital RN Carol Barazi about Sutter Corp’s announcement to close yet another hospital in the Bay Area—this time in San Leandro—which serves the East Bay. Of the 27,000 patients seen in the San Leandro emergency room last year, more than 60 percent came from East Oakland, patients who will now need to drive many miles over crowded freeways for care. Again—closure of a hospital that serves the “underserved.”
Ever wonder whats behind the old face? Angil Tarach-Ritchey RN, and national expert in senior care provides us with an insightful look at the lives of the aging. With over 30 years experience in senior care and advocacy Angil passionately talks about her elder advocacy project and book, Behind The Old Face. Angil is a frequent blogger on the Nurse Talk website and comes to Nurse Talk by way of our friends at Nurse Together.
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerburg win the Golden Bed Pan Award for starting the majorly successful organ donor project. More than 100,000 new organ donors signed up during the course of a week. Congratulations and great work!
What Nurses Want This Nurses Week
Whose your favorite nurse? We’ve all got one. Because nurses are with us at so many important points in our lives. They help us welcome new life and comfort us as we say good bye to loved ones. Nurses are present in medical emergencies and […]