Haiti Nursing Foundation (HNF) uses a French phrase on their opening Web page: ''Nous Sommes La Difference.'' It means, literally, ''We are the difference.'' And what a difference the young nursing students at HNF's FSIL School of Nursing in Leogane, Haiti, made during these weeks following the January earthquake. Despite ...

We're heading back to India, through the eyes of our guest blogger Malene Nielsen Flagga, an information specialist and science journalist at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She shares her recent experience with international nurses, many from the African nation of Ghana, and other healthcare providers as they gathered in Tamil ...

Mwen se infimye ou (''I am your nurse,'' Haitian Creole) Canadian Kyra Abbott, BScN, RN, grew up in the small town of Perth, Ontario, and now makes her home in the city of Ottawa. And while this Magna CumLaude graduate of the University of Ottawa could have opted for any number of relatively comfortable nursing opportunities, she chose to spend ...

How can anyone view the Minnesota parents who are refusing medical treatment for their son with lymphoma as anything but neglectful? If you haven't been following the case, Daniel Hauser, 13, was diagnosed with second-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma in January. Since he received an initial round of chemotherapy in early February, his parents Colleen ...

Posted April 30, 2009 The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) issued a joint statement April 30 about the then 109 confirmed cases of swine flu in the U.S., and offered recommendations to the public about when to seek emergency care in the 11 states where the disease is present ...

''He's dying.'' I heard this hushed statement from a nurse assistant as she hurried out of room C-17. She had spent the last 20 minutes cleaning the patient and preparing him for bed. ''How can you tell?'' I asked her. ''Because he's talking to his mother,'' she told me. To me, that made no sense. This patient was 90 years old; how could he ...

That was the title of the ad prominently displayed on the back cover of the Congress Daily AM March 31st when we ''stormed the hill.'' What an amazing day we had. The six of us, along with two other Wisconsinites, met with Sens. Kohl and Feingold health staffers; and Reps. Tammy Baldwin, Ron Kind, Dave Obey and James Sensenbrenner health staffers. ...