The Safe Lift Bill. Breast Cancer Treatment at Kaiser San Rafael. Cellulite Reducing Jeans.
Welcome to Nurse Talk where laughter is the best medicine. I’m Casey Hobbs
and I’m Shayne Mason – and we are two of the thousands of nurses on duty today.
Casey: “Oh lord, I don’t know why we had to share that with you but for some reason we felt compelled to play a clip of President Lyndon Johnson ordering pants. He could have used the talents of Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods…erase-erase-erase…my…what a bit of history.”
We’ve touched on this issue before but it’s worth talking about again.
The statistics regarding back injuries are frightening! Approximately 80% of adults are expected to experience back injuries in their lifetime with 10% re-injuring! When it comes to health care professionals, the facts get are even worse.
According to national statistics, six of the top 10 professions at greatest risk for back injury are nurse’s aides, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, health aides, radiology technicians, and physical therapists. Healthcare industry workers sustain 4.5 times more overexertion injuries than any other type of worker.
Well, registered nurses from hospitals in Kansas City and St. Louis, members of National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC), with the help of their state legislators, recently introduced HB 856 – the Safe Lift Bill. Sounds like a no brainer right? Listen and find out how challenging it was to get this bill introduced. Read more…
Fit Happens Tip – The Squeeze
Guys, you may not worry about cellulite, but believe me, women do. Well, ladies, we’ve had jeans that squeeze our stomach in, others that lift our butt and now Wrangler has launched jeans that go after our cellulite. The jeans “Smooth Legs” skinny jeans are […]
Sit Down Stand Up. A Win for the South Side. iTriage All the Time.
Casey: “Well, that was a 100-year-old stand up comedian who loves to perform. Our producer found her on YouTube—sitting down doing ‘stand up.’ Proves that laughter is the best medicine at any age.”
Keeping up with the RNs from National Nurses United—Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side reached an agreement with hospital officials on their first ever collective bargaining contract that includes significant improvements in patient care protections. We’ll talk with RN Monica Lloyd from the great city of Chicago about this and more. And did we say Monica is on fire about this good news!?!
And later in the show, if you haven’t found this great app called iTriage, look no further than the Nurse Talk website. iTriage is an amazing resource for everyone.Read more…
Fit Happens Tip – Get Off Your Butt
The price you pay for the sedentary lifestyle is not good. A listener asks, “Does sitting cause cancer?” I agree this is scary—calm down. Here’s what is going on. We’re sitting more than ever. We go from sedentary jobs to sedentary activities after work—resulting in […]
Health and Fitness Guru Joanie Greggains and Nurses Say NO to Keystone
Check out Mary Maxwell from Caregiverstress.com—doing what she does best—giving great advice. Love it! We all know good things happen to bad people or is it bad things happen to good people? Well anyway a few weeks ago over 4000 people were on a lovely […]
Money Saving Tips. Carnival of Horrors. No Keystone. Fit Happens.
Check out Mary Maxwell from Caregiverstress.com—doing what she does best—giving great advice. Love it! We all know good things happen to bad people or is it bad things happen to good people? Well anyway a few weeks ago over 4000 people were on a lovely […]
What Does Ice in Your Soft Drink and and Toilet Water Have in Common?
A 12-year-old middle school student, Jasmine Roberts, a seventh gradeer at Benito Middle School, New Tampa, Florida received first place at the Hillsborough County Regional Science and Engineering Fair by comparing the ice used in drinks at five fast food restaurants with the water from […]
Who Doesn’t Need to Go Back to Class? Tune In to Learn How to Tune Out
This week we present a wonderful rewind about TM, Transcendental Meditation and then just to make you “nuts” we’ll give you a review of D.C. Constipation! No segue for that. If you missed our great discussion about TM, tune in this Saturday at 11 am […]