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The Weight of the Nation
August 30, 2012 8:45 AM by Samantha Damren

I don't know how many of my fellow NPs and PAs have seen and or heard about HBO's four-part documentary on obesity in America, The Weight of the Nation , but I can't recommend it enough: it is an awesome and totally relevant examination of health in the Read More...

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It’s Great to be Alive in the Age of Atripla
March 14, 2012 8:13 AM by Samantha Damren

My new position affords me the opportunity to provide care and management of patients living with HIV. Living is the operative verb. Gone are the days of taking at least 17 pills PO q 24 hours. Patients in the United States, diagnosed with HIV, that commence Read More...

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Working the STD Clinic
February 9, 2012 7:59 AM by Elizabeth Huston

STD screens and treatment are a bread-and-butter public health service. Screenings are usually handled by enhanced-role RNs trained in speculum exams, collecting cultures and wet mounts, though not performing Pap smears. Because our enhanced role RN is Read More...

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On Vulnerable, Underserved Patients
September 15, 2011 1:32 PM by Elizabeth Huston

With 4 days left to go in my residency I decided to wallow in sentimentality by going through all of the accumulated folders related to my journey in nursing that began with nursing school at East Carolina University (ECU; 2 nd degree) in 2003, public Read More...

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