With winter quickly approaching, here is a quick checklist to help you prepare your loved one’s home for the cold and snow. (more…)

Yet another article singing the praises of a professional nurse performing follow up visits with patients at home following discharge from hospitals.  (more…)

Training new nurses requires quality educational programs and willing clinical programs.  This article talks about the fact that patients are not always fully available in these clinical programs for nursing students to ‘train on”, so some of the more developed educational programs have started turning to innovative means of re-creating patient care experiences.  (more…)

Healthy Chicago.  Really?  Can we, as a community, really raise money and throw more money at the problems of obesity, tobacco, teenage pregnancy?  (more…)

Is it ever right to lie?  Is it ever right to deceive?  I don’t pretend to have that answer any more.  (more…)

I hate to admit it, but I’ve become one of those older nurses that everyone is afraid of losing!  (more…)

This one caught me off guard…..the mutation of the gene that causes ALS may be the same gene mutation that leads to dementia!  (more…)

It is so great to see money following the recommendations of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on the development of nursing skills and education.  And it’s even better to see that Illinois is one of the 37 states to have a program that is being funded by this campaign. (more…)

It seems as if there is no lack of research or commentary or hypothesis on the risks of Diabetes.  Here is yet another article, based on studies done in Japan, that shows a significant increase in the occurrence of dementia of those individuals with Diabetes.  (more…)

Just when we’ve all thought that we’ve heard everything we need to hear regarding home care, we have to think about traveling!!  (more…)