I saw this great patient education video about lost tampons on a blog called Doc Gurley, Posts From an Insane Healthcare System. The blogger appears in the video giving humorous, yet expert, advice about how a tampon can get ''lost'' and what to do about it. Take a look, and then show it to your patients.Self-produced videos aren't difficult to ...

So who's excited? I voted this morning at around 8:30, and it took me 14 minutes including the walk to the polling place and back and chatting with my neighbor. The place was tiny but uncrowded, and I had to fight my way in through a dozen arms thrusting campaign lit at me. Here in suburban Philadelphia we push light-up buttons and then ''Vote.'' ...

A compilation of 100 blogs by RNcentral.com is called ''100 Best Blogs for Nursing Students.'' I'd venture to say that many of the blogs would also be interesting to NPs or NP students, such as ''The Nurse Practitioner's Place'' blog (number 37). Other NP blogs I follow from the ''top 100'' include ''What school doesn't teach you ...

The New York Times reports that trendspotter Faith Popcorn also follows trends. She sees a nurse practitioner: '''I see a nurse practitioner,' rather than a doctor [said Popcorn], 'unless there’s really a problem. I also wait a little longer before I seek help, in case nature cures the ill.'''

  According to a report in Monday's Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune, NPs might want to be on the lookout for signs of THC intoxication in children who eat too much Halloween candy. It seems that the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office uncovered a drug ring that used chocolate and caramel as a delivery device for its product (the ...