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 ...

On his first nursing mission to Nepal in 2007, Joe Niemczura, MS, RN, wondered how he would make his mark on the indigenous people. ''I wasn't there to do the nursing, I was there to teach the locals what they need to do,'' he explains. But as he arrived at the host hospital in the town of Tansen, he had no idea how he would build ...

Ah, the seduction of food. That's right, you heard me. Seduction. There is absolutely an unspoken attraction to a firm mound of mashed potatoes and a pool of satiny butter. And there is no doubt that a warm apple pie, with a dollop of vanilla ice cream slowly melting atop a flakey crust, teases the senses and leads to irrational desire! The ...

Michael C. LaFerney, APRN-BC, is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist employed by Arbour SeniorCare, Rockland, MA, and is a regular contributor to ADVANCE for Nurses. In this post he challenges nurses to take a role in helping people with rare diseases. Bob is looking for someone to adopt him. Well not him, his disease. Bob is not a child. ...