Diabetes Awareness and the Impact on Health Care Reform

November 18, 2011

As most clinicians know, diabetes is a serious disease that requires life long management and is one of the biggest challenges to U.S. healthcare. But an even more pressing problem is the dramatic increase in diabetes while awareness of the disease and how to prevent it remains low. Causes of diabetes, particularly type 2–sometimes referred [...]

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Should Health Insurance Costs be tied to Your State of Health?

November 3, 2011

      Would you exercise more or eat less if it meant saving money every month?  That’s at the heart of an ongoing and intensifying debate on how to price health insurance to either reward people who live healthy lives, and therefore expect to require less medical services, or penalize individuals with unhealthy conditions and/or habits.  [...]

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Rules of Engagement for Dining Out

October 19, 2011

Americans today eat as many as half their meals away from home.  The trend is increasing and the correlation between the well documented fattening of America and dining out is strong and undeniable.  But rather than deny yourself the pleasure of good food entirely, instead try and create a way to succeed–and maybe even have [...]

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Behavioral and Educational Interventions Work!

October 12, 2011

Why is it that one person who smokes a pack a day can put down the last cigarette and never smoke again, while another anguishes over their deadly habit for a lifetime but can never quit?  Or one obese person starts a diet and loses 50 pounds and keeps it off while most obese dieters [...]

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Informatics: Leading Edge of Future Nursing

October 4, 2011

        Every once in a while, a name hits our lexicon that becomes iconic to our culture (think Xerox, Kleenex or Google).    A new one may be added soon.  If you browse the term Informatics you’ll find the following definition: “a broad academic field encompassing human-computer interaction, information science, information technology, algorithms, and social science.”  [...]

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Exercise Prescription is the Right Medicine

September 20, 2011

Exercise prescription is the referral of patients by healthcare professionals to exercise programs designed to help patients suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other medical problems.  Treatment is based on the knowledge that exercise is crucial to the prevention, management, and treatment of numerous chronic conditions.  The term is also [...]

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Hot Healthcare Topics for School Aged Children

August 22, 2011

Parents today have enough to worry about when they send their kids off to school each morning.  But something else to worry about that’s slipping beneath the radar of most parents’ awareness screen is the fact that many schools no longer have trained healthcare professionals—school nurses—at their children’s school should something go amiss during the [...]

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Learn more about a 3-Lead ECG

August 10, 2011

More and more healthcare professionals find it necessary to be trained in using ECG due to rotating into different settings or being required to perform more testing.  Therefore, the need to acquire a basic understanding of how to conduct and interpret ECGs is becoming a valuable skill.  The following article is intended to provide a [...]

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Staying on Top of Your Game: A History of Continuing Education

June 22, 2011

Continuing education—the acquisition or improvement of work-related skills by people already in the workforce —became increasingly vital throughout the 20th century partially as a result of technological advances, which led many industries to depend on high-tech equipment. Furthermore, the corporate downsizing of the 1980s and 1990s added to the need for workers to upgrade their [...]

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Just released: Cardiac Health, Rehabilitation & Secondary Prevention policy & procedure manual – 5th Edition

June 16, 2011

          For healthcare professionals working with cardiac rehabilitation patients, having a current, comprehensive policy & procedure manual can be an invaluable resource to have at your fingertips: In today’s rapidly evolving cardiac rehab field, being up-to-date is crucial.  Fortunately, the new 5th Edition “Cardiac Health, Rehabilitation & Secondary Prevention” manual, co-written by Jody Heggestad Hereford, [...]

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