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Speaking Event at NY City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene – Patient Empowerment

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 14:43 No Comments

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA

I’m excited to be a keynote speaker at the NY City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on October 5, 2010 in New York City.
I will be speaking at the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control–2010 Tuberculosis MD Seminar.
The topic of my speaking presentation is: “Patient Empowerment: Engaging Our Patients to Take [...]

This was posted under category: Doctors, Events, Hospital Care, Mental Health, Nurses, Patient Engagement, Press, Quality Health Care Tags: Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, Engaging Our Patients, MD seminar, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene --Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, Patient Advocacy, Patient Empowerment, Patient Engagement, RN Keynote Speaker, RN speaking event, Take Charge of Health

Healthy Living: How to be Wildly Popular-Part 2

Thursday, August 5, 2010 14:58 No Comments

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
Part 1 of How to be Wildly Popular focused on where I found inspiration for writing this healthy living post.
Part 2 provides you with friendly simple tips to becoming wildly popular.
So, you want to be popular?
Be popular and happy within your own group of friends.
Who doesn’t (okay, there may be [...]

This was posted under category: Adults, Healthy Living, Men's Health, Seniors, Teens, Women's Health, Young Adults Tags: happiness, Happiness Advice, Happiness Is, Happiness Tips, Health, Health and Wellness, Healthy Living, How to be Happy, How to be Popular, How to be Wildly Popular, Huffingtonpost, Living News

How to be Wildly Popular-Part 1

Thursday, August 5, 2010 14:52 No Comments

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
Inspiration for writing
I thought I’d share my latest post, The 3 Secrets to a Wildly Popular YOU, published on HuffingtonPost that appears in the Living News and Happiness section.
Thanks to all my HuffPost readers for their Twitter ReTweets and comments.

How to be Wildly Popular-Part 1
It’s amazing where inspiration comes from. [...]

This was posted under category: Adults, Healthy Living, Other, Seniors, Teens, Women's Health, Young Adults Tags: Brian Clark, Copyblogger, happiness, Healthy Living, How to be Happy, How to be Popular, How to be Wildly Popular, Huffingtonpost, Inspiration for Writing, The 3 Secrets to be Wildly Popular

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Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA, is an award-winning journalist, media broadcaster, speaker, medical blogger, consultant, media trainer, and health expert. She is creator, executive producer and host of Health in 30® Radio Show. Barbara is a registered nurse active on the front lines of health care: She is a head nurse at a level 2 trauma center and covers multiple medical and surgical units, critical care, oncology, cardiology and step-down units, the psychiatric in-patient unit and the Women’s and Children’s units, pediatric ER and Barbara has many years experience covering the main emergency room. Her clinical experience ranges from oncology to general medicine and surgery. Read more about Barbara. Barbara is a featured writer on Huffingtonpost.

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Archive for August, 2010

Speaking Event at NY City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene – Patient Empowerment

Healthy Living: How to be Wildly Popular-Part 2

How to be Wildly Popular-Part 1

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