Be Yourself, Nurses---Everyone Else Is Taken
Owning and stepping into your own genius as a nurse is important; and genius is, of course, relative for all nurses. At times, we can lose heart and feel that we just can ' t become the person or professional we thought we could be; however, seeking our own individual path is paramount when it comes to creating a career that feels tailor-made just for us, and not just a path someone else said was the best one to follow. Whether you feel like an impostor or your career has grown stale, there ' s nothing you can be other than yourself; and if you ' re trying terribly hard to be just like someone else (or do what others ...
Source: Digital Doorway - November 7, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers nurse nurse career nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
A Weak Admission
A 64-year old woman presented to the emergency department with nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, dry eyes, and difficulty keeping her eyes open. She admitted to eating mandarin oranges out of a can the night before, and at that time she thought they "tasted funny" but did not think much of it.The next morning she noticed she was having trouble opening her eyes and that her mouth was dry. She looked inside the can of oranges and saw it was discolored.Her presenting vital signs were unremarkable. The patient was alert and awake. She had ptosis bilaterally, with mydriatic pupils unresponsive to light. The patient h...
Source: The Tox Cave - November 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
5 Fun Ways to Get Kids Drinking More Water
As an SLP specializing in pediatric feeding, I often get parents and physicians asking me how to encourage toddlers and preschoolers to drink more water.
Many young kids in feeding treatment get “stuck” on one type of liquid, typically breast milk, formula or a supplemental high-calorie drink. Introducing water ensures that kids don’t fill their bellies with their favorite milk-like drinks and reduce their appetite for trying new foods. Plus, water is essential for gut health, regular bowel movements, and dental and vocal hygiene.
Here are five fun ways to help young clients enjoy drinking water:
Tiny bears: The tr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 13, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Melanie Potock MA Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Feeding Disorders private practice Swallowing Disorders Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Why Carrots Really Are Good for Your Eyes
New research from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that the more colorful fruits and vegetables we eat, the lower the risk of advancedmacular degeneration (AMD), a serious age-related vision problem that can lead to blindness. Researchers gathered data from health surveys that tracked more than 63,000 women and nearly 39,000 men all of whom were nurses or other health professionals aged 50 and older. They found that from the mid-1980s until 2010 about 2.5 percent of the survey respondents developed intermediate or advanced forms of macular degeneration. Compared to those who reported consuming the le...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - October 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: AMD Science and Supplement News carrots eyes vision Source Type: blogs
Budget Criteria And Drug Value Assessments: A Case Of Apples And Oranges?
Editor’s note: For more on this topic, see Steven Pearson’s response to this post, also published today on Health Affairs Blog.
Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a historic initiative to shift Medicare’s reimbursement paradigm. Instead of paying for the “volume” of care, Medicare would now aim to pay for “value.”
Medicare’s announcement coincided with renewed interest in the private sector in finding new ways to align prices with value in health care. Both private payers and delivery systems have begun to embrace the possibilities of innovative pricing arrangements for p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Darius Lakdawalla and Peter J. Neumann Tags: Drugs and Medical Innovation Medicaid and CHIP Medicare health technology assessment ICER Source Type: blogs
How does Tresemme Beauty-Full Volume Reverse Wash haircare system work? Episode 151
This study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology says that citrus products contain psoralens and fur-O-coumarins which can stimulate certain cancers when they’re exposed to light. The study looked at the diets of over 100,000 people over the course of 4 years. After controlling for other factors, the melanoma risk was found to by 36% higher in people who ate citrus fruits more than 1.5 times per day. So I’m sure it won’t be long before some enterprising beauty company starts selling sunscreen in the produce aisle of the grocery store.
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Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
New Study Warns of the Dangers of Multiple Vaccinations
Conclusion
Neil Z. Miller has outlined some extremely alarming facts and the situation could be far worse, with many adverse reactions left unreported. However, despite his efforts, no mainstream media outlet has reported on this factual and evidence-based paper.
Facts are facts, and we, at VacTruth, believe that the time has come to put a stop to this madness. We urge parents to send a copy of Miller’s paper to all relevant health and government departments before it is too late.
References
https://vactruth.com/2015/04/23/baby-dies-after-13-vaccines/
http://www.jpands.org/vol21no2/miller.pdf
http://www.harpocratesspeak...
Source: vactruth.com - September 8, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England, BA Hons Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories Multiple Vaccines truth about vaccines Vaccine Death vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Dear Boston Globe Spotlight Team: Access to Care is About So Much More than Public Safety
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team -- the investigative reporting team featured in the Oscar-winning, best pictureSpotlight -- is doing a six-part series on the shambles the mental health system has become in Massachusetts. And make no mistake, their system is a shambles. The series is called The Desperate and the Dead, and while I understand that journalism involves sensationalism to get people to read, the emphasis on violence in these articles is striking, and unnecessarily provocative. It's stigmatizing and distracts from the real issues. This from an author who has abook coming out shortly about p...
Source: Shrink Rap - August 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
The Attack on Chile's Private Pension System
Last month, a scandal erupted in Chile. The media discovered that the former director of the Chilean gendarmerie, the country ’s penitentiary service, was receiving a pension of about $8,000 per month. Chile privatized its pension system in 1980. Instead of sending retirement money to the government, workers there put their money in private accounts that invest and accumulate savings to be used in old age. When Chile app roved the reform, the military and some law enforcement agencies (such as the gendarmerie) remained in the old public system.Although the abuse occurred within the old public pension system, which benefi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 16, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Hope is a Hot Button
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Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - July 24, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: chat hpmchat kastner tweetchat Source Type: blogs
Elevated CO2 Stimulates the Growth of Papaya
Papayas are spherical or pear-shaped fruits known for their delicious taste and sunlit color of the tropics. Upon his arrival to the New World, Christopher Columbus apparently could not get enough of this exotic fruit, reportedly referring to it as the “the fruit of angels.” And the fruit of angels it may indeed be, as modern science has confirmed its value as a rich source of important vitamins, antioxidants and other health-promoting substances to the consumer.
Papaya production has increased significantly over the past few years to the point that it is now ranked fourth in total tropical fruit production after banan...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 146
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 146
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What was James Lind famous for (clue = physician in the Royal Navy)?
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He conducted the first ever clinical trial.
Lind thought scurvy was due to putrefaction of the body and could be cured by acids. 2 months into a trip at sea, 12 sailors became ill. He split them into...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 20, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five cadaverous poisoning clinical trial Dr Semmelweis female physician James Barry James Lind leeches puerperal fever scurvy scybalum streptococcus progenies Source Type: blogs
Confessions of a Health Plan CEO
By JIM PURCELL
The fact that I was once the CEO of a health insurer may cause you to read this with some skepticism.
I invite and challenge your skepticism. And I will do my very best to keep this piece strictly factual and not stray into the ambiguities that necessarily accompany complicated matters.
So bear with me.
Health insurers are not popular. No one wants to go to the prom with us. We have been vilified by no less than the President of the United States. Heady stuff. Let us see if this vilification and what I call the cartoonization of insurers has served us well in the healthcare debate. I think it has...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCB Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island Health insurance Health Plans Jim Purcell Source Type: blogs
You can’t compare health care to the airline industry. Here’s why.
There’s been a lot of talk for quite some time in health care quality improvement circles about why health care can’t be as safe as airline travel. Some of the reasons behind asking this question are very valid, as there are many things health care can learn from the aviation industry. Others, however, are complete fallacy; because on so many levels, it’s like comparing apples to oranges.
Over recent weeks, I’ve heard the debate resurface again, with the same quality improvement thought leaders using the same old arguments, without being grounded in the reality of frontline medicine.
Slowly but surely, patient safe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 4, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Suneel Dhand, MD Tags: Physician Hospital Source Type: blogs
