Emerging Trends in Health Care
Increased focus on the current demographic changes of the aging population will most likely be the most important health care trend within the next 20 years.Americans are living longer than ever before...
View ArticleLinda Aiken Sheds Some Light on the Nursing Shortage
Last month the Health Affairs Blog featured Linda Aiken . Dr. Aiken has been a major contributor to health workforce and outcomes research for the past two decades. She discusses the 7 Myths currently...
View ArticleHospitals Fight Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, Seek Alternatives To Use Nursing...
The Kaiser Family Foundation reported today that "The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined how "hospitals are fighting back against efforts to set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and adopting new...
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Seasons Greetings for the Politically Correct~
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter...
View Article~so long, farwell, ciao, goodbye!
I am off on holiday for 2 weeks. I will miss the blogosphere but I shall return!Peace~RN Faye
View ArticleNew year, same issues.
Back and still recovering from the jet lag. Italy is a beautiful country, the people are hospitable and the food, exquisite. Staying with an Italian family helped me move through the country fairly...
View ArticleLadies, silicone is back!
Under pressure from silicone implant manufacturers, The FDA approved the use of new generation silicone breast implants in November 2006. This will mean "big money for easy surgery" for plastic...
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"Meditate and eat your veggies" a patient perspective.
Ken Wilber, author, philosopher, creator of Integral Theory, writes about his recent frightening and amazing experience at an ER and intensive care unit in a Colorado hospital. It is amazing what the...
View ArticleHealth Affairs: 25 most read papers of 2006
Celebrating it 25th anniversary, The Health Affairs blog is offering free access to the top 25 most read articles until January 19th. This is interesting reading if you are at all passionate about...
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A historic day for the women of America
Yesterday Nancy Pelosi of California took the speaker's gavel from Rep John Boehner of Ohio. The New York Times reported. “This is an historic moment,” Mrs. Pelosi said in her first remarks as speaker...
View ArticleBlog Carinvals
Hiya!Check out the latest Change of Shift hosted by Kim McAllister RN at Emeriblog.For all the policy wonks, Health Care Renewal is hosting the Health Wonk review this month. topics range from access...
View ArticleReturn of the Recluse...
Yes I have been gone for quite some time, but I had not forgotten my online persona entirely. Was I missed? Doubt it. But I have certainly missed y'all.Over the past few months, most of my time has...
View ArticleReturn of the Recluse Part 2: One Year Later
Back again, and I do not really have an excuse as to why I neglected this blog. Although many times I felt inspired I just did not get the words out on page. Admittedly, I lack good time management...
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Feminisim and body image
Does political ideology effect perceptions of weight acceptance in women? Apparently it does according to a recent study discussed in the New York Times today. Researchers concluded that women who...
View ArticleA celebrity case for quality
In 2007, the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid were given potentially lethal overdoses of Heparin, in which a flush of 10 units/ml were mistakenly replaced with 10,000 units/ml an then administered...
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Wide Awake:"Acid Attacks on Women are a problem in South Asia"
"Mamata's story goes back 12 years, to when she was 14. Her crime was that she refused to stay with a husband who had decided to marry again.Over several months, while she stayed with her parents, he...
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