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Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer: How Active Are We in Patient Education?

A lot of us are really big proponents of using sun screen. How active are we in promoting sunscreen use in our patients, especially our patients that are at greater risk? There’s an article here about a study released on … Continue reading

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Studies Show No Correlation Between Cell Phone Use and Brain Cancer

This news item on the correlation between brain cancer and cell phone use which of course seems to be no correlation. It’s just interesting because the World Health Organization recently added cell phones to the list of possible carcinogens. I’m not … Continue reading

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Safety Tools Don’t Create Safety, Nurses Do

There was a press release from the AACN about a recent study that came out looking at health care professionals ignoring safety tool signals resulting in negative effects in patient outcomes. According to the study, “The Silent Treatment: Why Safety … Continue reading

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Osteoporosis vs. Increased Heart Attack Risk: A Look at Calcium Supplementation

We’ll start off with a story about calcium supplements. Are they on again? Are they off again? We never really seem to know. It seems that there are competing studies out there looking at different aspects of calcium use and … Continue reading

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Old Generic Medications More Effective for Hypertension

This looks at a story on blood pressure medications and why do I bring this is up? We don’t prescribe medications, at least general nurses don’t, nurse practitioners do but why do we need to know the differences between generic … Continue reading

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Addison’s Disease and Episode 128

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Welcome to Episode 128 of the Nursing Show The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the show, free! Subscribe with iTunes here (need iTunes — it’s free) RSS Feed to subscribe (copy url to Juice, … Continue reading

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Cushing’s Syndrome Nursing Review and Episode 126

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Welcome to Episode 126 of the Nursing Show The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the show, free! Subscribe with iTunes here (need iTunes — it’s free) RSS Feed to subscribe (copy url … Continue reading

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Anxiety Disorders Review for Nursing and Episode 119

Welcome to Episode 119 The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the show, free! —– Right Click to download (Macs Option Click) Subscribe with iTunes here (need iTunes — it’s free) RSS Feed … Continue reading

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Tuberculosis Nurse Review and Episode 117

Welcome to Episode 117 The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the show, free! —– Right Click to download (Macs Option Click) Subscribe with iTunes here (need iTunes — it’s free) RSS Feed … Continue reading

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Shock Review for Nurses and Students and Episode 115

Welcome to Episode 115 The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the show, free! —– Right Click to download (Macs Option Click) Subscribe with iTunes here (need iTunes — it’s free) RSS Feed … Continue reading

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