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TV Nursing Dramas: ‘Nurse Jackie’ Needs Healing, ‘Hawthorne’ Offers Hope by Barbara Ficarra Registered NurseHealth Maven Nurse Jackie vs. Hawthorne Two TV nursing dramas debut next month.  Only one seems to have potential to represent the real lives of nurses. By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Does the old adage...
Comparing MRI Criteria for Diagnosing Pediatric MS and ADEM by stuart Patient Expert Information found below was suggested by Cherie C. Binns RN BS MSCN The new Callen criteria for multiple sclerosis–acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (MS-ADEM) are the most useful of the current MRI criteria for dif
Help with Care Plans and Nursing Diagnosis by Kathy Q. Registered Nurse could be helpful to those of you just learning about, or struggling to master: Nursing Diagnosis, NANDA and Care Plans . You can also find more about the Nursing Process and other nursing theories at TheNursing
Protein Excreted in Urine May Help in Diagnosing Kidney Disease … by Dr. Syed L. Doctor of Dentistry , scientists, public health professionals, dentists , and nurses at the College of Physicians & Surgeons... in Diagnosing Kidney Disease … ...
Diagnosing patients with help from a cell phone by Action for Better Healthcare Patient Expert of injuries to a call center where doctors, nurses and physician assistants can diagnose what they see... is quickly becoming more high-tech with help from patient cell phones.  A new generation of doctors, nurses and other staff...
How bowel cancer is diagnosed by Dr. Anshu Gupta Patient Expert . It is still being researched as a way of diagnosing bowel cancers. Your doctor or nurse can discuss it with you further... of the large bowel. Proctoscopy/sigmoidoscopy These tests allow the doctor, or nurse colonoscopist...
Diagnosing Crohn's Disease by Dr. Anshu Gupta Patient Expert Diagnosing Crohn's Disease can be a tough one to make since it acts... with other GI ailments multiple times before officially diagnosing Crohn’s Disease. Symptoms absolutely vary...
New Technology could diagnose cancer in 10 minutes at patient bedside by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven blood work done can be a long, expensive process. The current method involves a doctor or nurse drawing...
Diagnosing Heart Problems by ShapeUp .. examination will be performed to confirm a diagnosis. GEORGE A. BELLER, MD, MACC: Angina is diagnosed... probability by the doctor or nurse interviewing the patient that it's angina. It is most often confirmed...
How stomach cancer is diagnosed by Dr. Anshu Gupta Patient Expert used to diagnose cancer of the stomach. Before an endoscopy the stomach has to be empty, so you will be asked not... onto the back of your throat and the doctor or nurse passes an endoscope (a thin, flexible tube) down the gullet...

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The Importance of Early Detection
by 2025! An estimated 43 percent of Americans 65 and older will spend time in a nursing home... have not been diagnosed yet because the earliest signs OFTEN get chalked up to a "normal part of aging...crap

maryterry
I am a nurse practitioner with bipolar disorder. I was just recently diagnosed at 51 and am trying to sort out my life. I tend to have ADHD symptoms and problems with sleep and anxiety. The diagnosis was made because my 20 yr old son hung himself one year ago this August. We always thought...crap

Thinking back, what would you have asked?
My name is Christy...I was diagnosed in 2005 with MS and that whole experience made me want to become a nurse. So, here I am, in nursing school and I have decided to do my presentation on The Nursing care... your nurse would have explained better? Thank you in advance! Christy Christy...crap

what are the 3 things you wish your nurse would have explained better?
My name is Christy...I was diagnosed in 2005 with MS and that whole experience made me want to become a nurse. So, here I am, in nursing school and I have decided to do my presentation on The Nursing care... your nurse would have explained better? (I also put this in a sharepost, not sure where it belongs) Thank...crap

Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses -- It's WOC Nurse Week
When was the last time you met a young nursing student who said they aspire to go into urology or... about just how important and needed it is. When people are at their most vulnerable, these nurses save the day by calmly and patiently... about intimacy with tact and they deal with bodily fluids without missing a beat. While physicians diagnose...crap

Wanted: Nurse Practitioner position
I am a newly diagnosed HIV+ man looking for a Nurse Practitioner position. I have 14 years critical care Registered Nurse experience working in a inner city Level One trauma center, then went back to school and got my Family Nurse Practitioner degree 12/2007. I am board certified with the AANP. I worked...crap

Getting Desperate
I was officially diagnosed with depression at 13, but due to parental intervention I only started being treated at uni.  I've now been having treatment for about 4 years, have seen various psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists.  I stopped taking medication over a year ago because I had adverse side effects...crap

Bip meds & SJS
Hello, I am the assistant to a Psychiatric Advanced Nurse Practitioner.  I was asked to research the Bipolar meds of topomax and trazadone, cause and effect patients may have when also diagnosed with Stephen Johnson Syndrome.  As I have read these two drugs may have to some degree or link to SJS.  Do you know...crap

Sister having issues...
My sister was recently diagnosed as +. She is/was a nurse thats how it was contracted.Her daughter had an accident and lost her foot.When her daughter was in surgery to revise the stump she started to bleed out... suicide twice.Her doctor has told that she has maybe two yrs because she was also diagnosed with dialated...crap

Infection with resistance virus
Hi,I have been diagnosed nearly a year ago and recently started medication and had resistance test which just came back. It shows that I have developed some resistance. Since I have not been taking drugs before I must have been infected with it. The nurse says that the person who infected me must have known about HIV and had taken...crap