By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Nurses and doctors and other members of the health care team strive every day to provide quality patient care. We focus on patients by understanding their needs. We listen, assess and evaluate. We work together as a team focusing not only on the patient, but family members as well. We formulate individual care plans addressing each and every need. Providing quality patient care is the single most important goal…
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Last updated January 8, 2021 Write for Us Healthin30.com is dedicated to providing the most accurate and reliable health and wellness news and information to our audience. We encourage you to share your writing with us. We welcome journalists, writers with expertise in their industry, and highly credentialed health care professionals to “tell a story” and educate consumers with simple jargon-free writing. Healthin30 prides itself on accurate, timely, passionate, and quality articles/posts from a…
Read More...7 Reasons Kids are Fat and 7 Simple Ways to Fight back
Guest Blog by Carol Torgan, Ph.D., FACSM School bus stops, food courts, video arcades – everywhere we look we see evidence of the often repeated stat that nearly one in three U.S. children and adolescents aged 2 through 19 years are overweight or obese. In a recent briefing on childhood obesity held in Washington, D.C. to highlight a special issue of the health policy journal Health Affairs, numerous scary stats were presented. A few of…
Read More...Women’s Fitness: Simple Moves to get you Fit and Toned at the Office or at Home
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA My good friend works at a major company in NYC and she’s fortunate since she’s able to hit the gym on her lunch hour. If you have a job that allows you the time to go to the gym, that’s great. Not everyone is that fortunate. As women we have so many responsibilities and we’re so busy. Trying to juggle work, family and friends can be a struggle and…
Read More...Huffingtonpost Readers Comment on Heart Attack Post
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I recently posted a blog, “Do You Know the Signs of a Real Life Heart Attack, Not the Hollywood Version?” on Huffingtonpost and I thought I would share a few comments that the blog received from Huffingtonpost readers. Thank you to the HuffPo readers for their comments and thanks to those readers for re-tweeting the blog on Twitter. Here are a few comments from the HuffPo readers as well…
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