By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA This post isn’t being written to frighten you or to cause you to mistrust hospitals. It’s to make you aware that medical errors do occur, but there are steps that you can take to help prevent medical errors from happening. First, some vital information According to a recent investigation by the Hearst Corporation, a staggering 200,000 Americans will die each year from preventable medical errors and hospital infections. This…
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I sat down with Fred Pescatore, M.D., NY Times Best Selling Author and Practicing Family Physician in New York City to talk about the nursing shortage and the health care system. “The health care system doesn’t respect and protect nurses,” says Dr. Pescatore. Additionally, the whole problem with medicine, says Dr. Fred Pecatore is that, We’ve allowed big business to take over medicine, so when big business takes over medicine people don’t matter, and medicine…
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I just want to write a quick note to let you know that my blog entries are now appearing on Getbetterhealth. I’m thrilled to be included among some popular health bloggers on the Better Health network. Dr. Val Jones is founder and CEO of Better Health, LLC. Here’s a little info about Better Health: What is Better Health? Better Health is a network of popular health bloggers, brought together by Dr. Val Jones, founder and…
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A Registered Nurse’s Tips to Stay Safe in a Hospital By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA A hospital can be extremely frightening and overwhelming. Hospitals generally are loud, cold, and sterile mazes of chaos. Unfortunately medical errors happen and it’s estimated that nearly 100,000 people die of medical errors each year. According to the CDC, “In American hospitals alone, healthcare-associated infections account for an estimated 1.7 million infections and 99,000 associated deaths each year.” As…
Read More...Why Doctors & Nurses Need Twitter
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I use Twitter and I like it. As a registered nurse, twitter helps me promote health and wellness and it helps me educate the public on vital health topics. It allows me to tweet about an upcoming radio show, link to informative websites and blogs, or retweet (RT) a tweet. I can read about the latest breaking health news, learn about the latest in health 2.0 and sometimes it…
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