A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry opining that retail health clinics sell NPs short when they emphasize that NPs will treat only minor illnesses. A column by Mary O' Neil Mundinger in Forbes magazine may be the public relations remedy to that perception. Mundinger, who is dean of Columbia University's nursing school and who pioneered the ...

  Here at ADVANCE we're busy crunching the data from our recent 2007 National Salary and Workplace Survey of Nurse Practitioners. One number that should surprise no one is that salaries for male NPs are 10% higher than those for female nurse practitioners. This is actually good news when you consider that in 1997 the gender wage gap for ...

Among the many interesting and motivating tidbits ACNP president Susan Apold shared at the organization's clinical conference was some background on a strategy that organized medicine seems to have adopted toward NPs. Here's a Wikpedia description of the strategy, which is called FUD: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a tactic of rhetoric ...

Organization is essential to finding balance.  The cornerstone of organization is the planner.  But with so many options to choose from, finding the perfect planner can be a daunting task.  Where do you start?  Start with determining your needs.  My organizational needs at work, at home, and in volunteer positions are ...

Have you all been watching AMC's Mad Men, the TV series about a Madison Avenue advertising firm in 1960? The premise explores the lofty question of how we create truth — and sell falsehood. We follow the power of sex, ethnicity and money through each episode. The women wear bullet bras, and the men swill bourbon from bottles kept in their desks. ...

A recent article on CNN suggested that the American obesity epidemic and global warming may have more in common than you'd think. According to the article, ''public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time.'' How do you do it? Easy. Walk or bike instead of drive. One scientist ...

Take a deep breath.  Go ahead, no one's watching.  Take a deep breath.  Just like you tell your patients:  slowly in through your nose, then slowly out through your mouth.  All the way out, until you feel your shoulders relax.  When was the last time you did that?  If you're like me, it was probably a couple of ...

Occasionally, we get trauma patients (related to gang activity or domestic violence)  in our 20 bed ICU.  I would like info on what policy or protocol is followed when you get these ''confidential'' patients in your ICU--(they don't want others to know they are in the hospital, or want info limited).  What system do ...

This is my initial log on - and went to your post because it is of primary interest to me - infection control - and yes, you should be concerned. Infection is one of the primary areas of concern for surgical patients.  Any behavior that demonstates a poor practice for maintaining a sterile or even clean environment is poor nursing/medical ...

The APTA's annual Preview 2020 conference will take place this year from Nov. 16-18 in Phoenix, AZ. According to the APTA's Vision Statement for Physical Therapy 2020: ''Physical therapy, by 2020, will be provided by physical therapists who are doctors of physical therapy and who may be board-certified specialists. Consumers will have direct ...