ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses : Drug Information

The Flu Shot: 101

Rebecca Hepp — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:23:00 GMT

If you haven’t been vaccinated for the flu yet, it should be on your weekend to-do list. October is the unofficial start of flu season, and you don’t want to come down with the nasty virus — or have your kids miss school because of it. Only 46% of Americans...(read more)

Top Tweets of the Week (1-16)

Pam Tarapchak — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:13:00 GMT

Celebrating Martin Luther King Day. Kids' mental health in military families. Debate on pediatric transplant eligibility. The future of healthcare reform. Here's a list of tweets just for you. And, of course, be sure to follow ADVANCE for Nurses by going...(read more)

Dealing with Drug Shortages

Robin Hocevar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:08:00 GMT

Earlier today, the Emergency Nurses Association issued a statement supporting the Preserving Access to Life Saving Medications bill (SB 296), which was recently sponsored by Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Robert Casey (D-PA). In short, the bill will provide...(read more)

What's Your Story?

Chuck Holt — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:15:00 GMT

Great ideas come in many forms. And sometimes great ideas are forms. Take for example, the idea for a "Stages of Surgery" form brought to our attention by its creator, Kevin Visitacion, BSN, RN, an OR nurse in Chicago. The aim of the form is to keep patients...(read more)

New Vaccine Again Proves Cancer is Costly, not Curable

Joe Darrah — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:46:00 GMT

The FDA has granted its first approval to a vaccine to treat cancer. Should you be excited? Sure, if you've got a bank account that rivals that of Daddy Warbucks. Intended to treat prostate cancer that has spread and not responded to hormone therapy,...(read more)

Faith & Community: A Nursing Natural

Chuck Holt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:49:00 GMT

Nursing’s ranking as the most trusted profession in America the past 8 years in Gallup’s annual Honesty & Ethics poll is testament to the reverence with which the public holds the caring profession. It’s a sentiment nurses return each day when they...(read more)

Prescription Drugs: A ‘Perfect Storm' That Almost Became a Killer

Valerie Newitt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:00 GMT

My mother, despite her 92 years of age, maintains the mind of a brilliant, life-loving 30-year-old. Unfortunately, her physical self never sipped from the fountain of youth. Her sight has dimmed, her mobility is nil, and she's done battle with cancer,...(read more)

HIPAA be damned? Celebrity death fuels debate about privacy rules in healthcare

Lyn A.E. McCafferty — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:49:00 GMT

If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad for nursing’s image, just wait until you hear about one real-life nurse in California. Like many, I could not escape the media frenzy following Michael Jackson’s death. Internet, TV, newspapers,...(read more)

A Magic Pill?

Abigail Scott — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:13:00 GMT

Like more than 66 percent of people in America, I'm overweight . And like most of those people, I wish I could magically drop off the extra pounds overnight, even though it took 15 years for them to settle around my bust, belly and butt. I'll admit, I've...(read more)