The devil's in the details.  Not always.  Sometimes the devil is in your attitude.  If you find yourself saddled with a negative outlook, there's no better time for an attitude adjustment than Thanksgiving. Below are some opposing viewpoints to common circumstances at work and at home.  Which end of the spectrum do you find ...

Be careful what you wish for.  It is so easy to see greener grass on the other side.  Often we don't take time to think through the ramifications of our decisions. My seven-year old, Abigail, announced, ''I wish our family only had five people.''  We currently have six, so I was curious who had offended her most grievously.  ...

Your Life is an Occasion – Rise to It! --Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Edward Magorium in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium If you haven't seen ''Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium,'' you are missing a gem.  I love this movie.  In so many ways, it embodies what this blog is all about:  living life.  To live life well, we have to live it ...

The London Times published an article today about the hopeful next Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his plan to overhaul the National Health Service. There has been outcry at mismanagement in the system and frustration by the public at the apparent lack of attention to timely and quality care. As I mentioned in a previous post, the NHS is the ...

We lived in West Palm Beach, Florida. You'd think we would have been in heaven.  The sun, the sand, the glitz. But our experience was far from heavenly.  While I finished out the remaining six weeks of a contract assignment, my husband moved down to get us settled. He says if he'd have known then what he knows now, he would ...

The care of older adults is the overriding issue at this year's GAPNA conference of course, but members are also turning their attention to national practice issues that affect all NP specialties. Yesterday, Evelyn Duffy, NP, director of the adult and gerontologic NP program at Case Western Reserve University, presented an informational session ...

Trying to get things done and developed programs in our department can be like a Chow-Lui Tree explaining the Bayesian Networks.  (The geeks like me will understand this) I have attempted many times to do balance and stability programs and be consistent with the Berg or Tinetti but there is absolutely no carry over by the P.T. and since ...

[Note from the editors: Following is a post by a former Real Life in Retail Health blogger about this summer's American Academy of Nurse Practitioners conference. She has left the retail health industry but still wished to share her thoughts on this conference with our blog readers.] I attended all 5 days of the AANP national conference in ...

My internship is coming to an end and I am really going to miss it. I am finding it harder and harder to have to tell my patients that I will not be seeing anymore. Some of my patients I have seen since the very first week of my clinical! As with all things though I must prepare for it to come to an end. The good thing about it coming to its ...

I struggled with ''T.''  I had already written the piece about turning tragedy into triumph when I received a poignant email.  I felt strongly about the tragedy piece because it is something therapists deal with almost daily.  But I can't get away from the feeling that someone will receive something from this perspective on time as ...