ADVANCE for Nurses
Providing concise, practical information on clinical, management, professional and career development issues for nurses practicing in all areas of the profession. Visit us at http://www.advanceweb.com/nurses.
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Gateway for Cancer Research  From ADVANCE for Nurses The Faces of Breast Cancer: ADVANCE highlights personal stories of people fighting breast cancer. http://tinyurl.com/ykxkvtv

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As breast cancer awareness month comes to a close, ADVANCE highlights the personal stories of people with breast cancer, in all different places in their lives. Whether 22 years cancer-free or currently ...
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ADVANCE for Nurses

ADVANCE for Nurses The Faces of Breast Cancer: ADVANCE highlights personal stories of people fighting breast cancer. http://tinyurl.com/ykxkvtv

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ADVANCE for Nurses The Toughest Talk: End-of-life experts share tips for nurses facing the most difficult conversation of all. http://tinyurl.com/yb5u28r

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End-of-life experts share tips for nurses facing the most difficult conversation of all.
Marie Dee Kintanar Cline
Marie Dee Kintanar Cline
huhu i need a job!!
9 hours ago
Tod Work
Tod Work
Nationalized healthcare makes families live longer.
6 hours ago
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ADVANCE for Nurses When communities get overwhelmed with immunizing against H1N1 and concomitant issues, they can turn to the local volunteers of the Medical Reserve Corps. http://tinyurl.com/y9c9dog

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In looking at what it will take to fight the H1N1 pandemic, the tasks are daunting! For example, more than 155,000 school children in Rhode Island will be getting H1N1 immunization very soon. Seasonal ...
Janice Eileen Fischer
Janice Eileen Fischer
www.bt.cdc.gov/.../COCA%20H1N1%20and%20Children%20for%20Nurses%2010-28-... - Slide 35 from CDC says that only if the two are both live vaccines there may be a 4 week interval. The inactivated ones can be given at anytime.
Fri at 3:58pm
Jo
Jo
As a member of MRC here in San Diego, I was a vaccinator for H1N1 - 30days apart was only for children under 9 years of age who required 2 doses. Minimum of 24hrs for either vaccine,.
6 hours ago
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ADVANCE for Nurses Face to Face Combat: In today's tech-heavy world, don't twitter away your interviewing skills. http://nursing.advanceweb.com/ResourceCenter/studentHome.aspx?RPID=14

Kathy Jones

Kathy Jones In a case study at nursing school, the instructor asked for a a visual plan of care for my patient. I came up with H.E.A.R.T. which stands for Healty attitude, Ensure safety, Act on abnormal findings, Respect the patient, Treat with integrity, wanted to pass along ( :

November 5 at 8:14am · Report
Natali Patterson
November 5 at 3:18pm
Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones
Thanks ( :
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ADVANCE for Nurses

ADVANCE for Nurses Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk by Sandy and Harry Jacobs Summers -- Sandy Summers, MPH, MSN, RN, and Harry Jacobs Summers believe the absence of positive images of nurses on the big and small screen and in print impacts the profession and they can prove it. Watch their video at www.advanceweb.com/nurses, at Calling All Book Worms.

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Nicole Moore
Nicole Moore
that...oops !
November 5 at 5:21am
Natali Patterson
Natali Patterson
Things have not changed especially in the media
November 5 at 3:39pm
ADVANCE for Nurses
At a family holiday party your 8-year-old nephew asks you "just what does a nurse do?" Do you say "takes care of patients," or use this moment to give him a real idea, described in a way he can understand, of the important work a nurse does daily? What about when you conduct a mid-afternoon asses...
Tod Work
Tod Work
"Good, cooperative patients get better sooner. So be quiet child."
November 4 at 3:00pm
ADVANCE for Nurses
The American Nurses Association President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR, has written a letter to all ANA members , urging them to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza and the H1N1 virus. ANA believes it is important to get this message to registered...(read more)
Jaqie Gilbert Keady
Jaqie Gilbert Keady
I got the seasonal flu vaccine, but haven't been able to get the H1N1 vaccine yet.
Fri at 1:50pm
ADVANCE for Nurses

ADVANCE for Nurses Oh boy, just 200 fans to go until we hit 7,000. Tell your nursing friends to come visit and become a fan!

November 2 at 6:56am
Crissanne
Crissanne
Why - if no names or even locations are discussed?
November 4 at 2:36pm
Crissanne
Crissanne
Suggested to all my nursing friends!
November 4 at 2:36pm
ADVANCE for Nurses
While running on my treadmill after work, an interesting headline appeared on the local news channel: "Hospital nurses reveal risk of cleanliness, Consumer Reports investigates ." I was shocked to discover that 28 percent of nurses said they had seen...(read more)
Stacey McMichael
Stacey McMichael
I thought your BDay was the 17th?
November 2 at 8:00pm
Efrain
Efrain
@stacey it is in February.
@ tammy Working at GSP and you?
November 3 at 4:34am
Deb Ciampa

Deb Ciampa Thank you to all of the great nurses from the MARN conference last Friday for stopping by our booth and supporting www.JustAskANurse.net.....because, Nurses Know!

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Jaime Sinutko, MSN, RN, is project manager, Institute for the Advancement of Nursing and Health Care, Oakland University School of Nursing, Rochester, MI."I'm keeping my options open" is the line many nurses have recently been overheard saying. Many nurses do not feel secure in their current job....
Natali Patterson
Natali Patterson
I did not keep my options open with this last position and now I have to start all over again. This something I never do is not to have a backup.
October 31 at 12:02pm
ADVANCE for Nurses
A recent segment on CBS’ 60 Minutes posed an interesting solution for how to pay for health reform: eliminate Medicare fraud. Sounds like a good idea. According to the expose, Medicare fraud is a $70 billion a year scam. Times that number by 10, and the...(read more)
Natali Patterson
Natali Patterson
I think we need to address one issue at a time. Getting everyone insured. It is easier to commit medicare fraud and it is usually those that make an innocent mistake (human error). Those that commit the fraud intentionally get away with it for years
October 31 at 12:09pm
Alanna Spearman
Alanna Spearman
It's time to go after the ones who have been committing fraud intentionally for years instead of constantly adding more rules and regulation to those have honest practices and truly want to serve the medicare population. Cut in pay and services is not the answer. Increased knowledgable fraud enforcement and protection is. Punish those who should be punished, and educate the ones who need it,
November 1 at 7:33pm
Natali Patterson
Natali Patterson
I agreed with your statement Alanna
November 2 at 9:58am
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