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Answering Patients' Questions
September 20, 2012 8:16 AM by Samantha Damren
Lately it seems a rash (no pun intended) of patients have asked me how it was that they contracted their Staph infections. Some had MRSA, others MSSA. Some suffered from bacteremia, others osteomyelitis, and others still were challenged by skin/soft tissue Read More...
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Benefits of the Affordable Care Act
September 13, 2012 8:01 AM by Beverly Clayton
"America has spoken" says Nick Cannon from America's Got Talent and the winner is: The American People! This is the feeling of many when the Supreme Court ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is constitutional. Are the American Read More...
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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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Differing Diagnoses
August 9, 2012 12:49 PM by Samantha Damren
In the last month and a half I have met and treated two women, both newly diagnosed with HIV and previously unaware and unsuspecting of their corresponding diagnoses. In both cases the women contracted it from their former husbands. I say former because Read More...
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Divisions of the Medical Team
June 18, 2012 9:05 AM by Beverly Clayton
There are several divisions to the medical department at the correctional facility, and for the most part, everyone works collaboratively. There is the medical team consisting of myself, my collaborative physician and our nurse, an LPN. Also, there are Read More...
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The Complex Importance of Patient Education
May 17, 2012 8:29 AM by Samantha Damren
Recently our group was consulted in the care of a patient newly diagnosed with HIV. This patient presented to the hospital via the ED with altered mental status. A lumbar puncture was performed and the cerebrospinal fluid was sent off to the microlab 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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Back to Prevention
September 9, 2011 9:55 AM by Samantha Damren
Where does the time go? Like an uninvited houseguest, Fall has arrived. As the month creeps forward, the upcoming school year looms larger on the horizon and thousands of 17- and 18-year-olds prepare to depart for college. Many of the young women I have Read More...
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Bringing Primary Care Home
August 18, 2011 3:16 PM by Samantha Damren
During this final rotation I have the opportunity to participate in home-based primary care. This program is directly influenced by Dr. Mary Naylor’s research and application of transitional care from the hospital to the home. Patients enrolled in this Read More...
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Patients Are Listening
February 2, 2009 8:49 AM by 
How much time is spent in patient education? How effective is it? Is it worth the time spent? Do we get reimbursed for it? These are all questions that we debate -- when we have time, in between doing all the other things that have to get done each day. Read More...
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