FDA Steps Up Focus on Monitoring Drugs after Approval
The FDA has reported that it will now be putting just as much effort into the monitoring of drugs after they have been approved as they do during the pre-approval process. A report labeled “Advances in the FDA’s Safety Program for Marketed Drugs” goes on […]
Nurse Talk Wins Big | 2012 Communicator Awards
Nurse Talk won four 2012 Communicator Awards for our series IN MY DAY with Lynn Ruth Miller. We won in every category we entered! Congratulations Lynn Ruth for winning the gold for Best On Air Talent! Silver awards were won for Audio Editing, Audio Production […]
The ER Beast | Love Your Nursing Life | Bobbi McCarthy
I usually write an inspiration to nurses on my blog and who knows maybe that is what this will end up being, but I feel the need to write about my experience yesterday and the decision that is solidified for me. I work in the […]
What Makes Things Funny? Social Security Trust Fund. Vinegar.
Let’s give a warm welcome to our new co-host RN Shayne Mason. We are so glad to have him with us and just to show our appreciation we had all kinds of studio chaos waiting for him. Three in-studio guests, advice from our retired co-host Maggie McDermott, technical difficulties and more. Shayne took it like a pro! Not to mention he brings to the show a wealth of medical expertise and, of course, a grand sense of humor.
Shayne holds an RN, BRN, NP, is an instructor at USF (University of San Francisco) and a psych nurse at a clinic in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. That psych background will come in handy!
On the show this week is RN, humorist, author Terri Tate. What makes all the wrong things funny? Terri Tate will tell you. Terri claims that humor saved her life. Most people wouldn’t find two bouts of disfiguring oral cancer, 30 plus hours of surgery, 7 weeks of radiation, endless complications and a 2% chance of survival all that funny. Terri wasn’t laughing the whole time but claims that her sense of humor never completely deserted her. Nineteen years after treatment—alive and laughing, Terri talks about her remarkable path and her new book, As Is.
Wiz kid Cameron Harris is stops by for a visit. Some of you may remember Cameron, at the ripe old age of sixteen, started a podcast company (Harwood Podcast Network) that now boasts over 900 different shows. The line up includes IN RANGE Cameron’s show with his advice about how to live a healthy active life with Type 1 Diabetes. Cameron himself was diagnosed at the age of eight.
Also with us is D.C. Correspondent and National Nurses United Legislative Advocate Donna Smith. Donna gives a great answer to the question–why don’t we see this headline in the media: “For Profit Healthcare Poses Threat to Medicare, Federal Deficit, and Overall Economy in Coming Decades”
Nurses Strike Sutter, Protest Closures, Reductions in Face of $4 Billon Profit
Bay Area Sutter RNs Begin One-Day Strike Hospital Giant Seeks Massive Cuts Despite $4 Billion in Profits Nurses to Also Protest Sutter Plans to Close Hospitals, Cut Care Registered nurses are on strike today at eight hospitals that are part of the wealthy Sutter corporate […]
Love Letters | There Is a Person and a Life Behind The Old Face
I’m a registered nurse with a 30-year passion for senior care and advocacy. For the last 8 years I have owned and directed Visiting Angels, a private duty homecare agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is my honor and privilege to work with seniors and […]
One Foot in Front of the Other | Alzheimer’s in the First Person | Barbara Taylor Vaughan
Every day is becoming harder and harder with mom and her Alzheimer’s. People told me as her disease advanced that I would have days that seemed endless…today was one of those days. Mom is forgetting how to walk, I will be walking with her, […]
Nurse Talk Joins the Walk for A Cure for Multiple Sclerosis
Nurse Talk joined the team Walk or Grow Wings last Saturday in Santa Rosa, California to walk for a cure for MS. Inspired by the people in our lives with Multiple Sclerosis, the team raised over $9000 under the enthusiastic and able leadership of Karen […]
Nurse Talk Resident Funny Lady, Lynn Ruth, Wows The Judges on Britain’s Got Talent
You can listen to more Lynn Ruth on Nurse Talk’s In My Day segment.