From the Front Lines By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA As nurses we tend to focus on treating a patient’s illness and still show compassion. As a nurse I try to feel the surroundings. I try to sense not only what a patient is going through, but what the family goes through. And yes, I need to avoid being so intertwined with a patient that it becomes emotionally overwhelming. The key is to separate the…
Read More...Hope and Healing
By Walter E. Jacobson, MD Do you think it’s possible to heal your body with hope and heart? Barack Obama spoke of hope in his presidential campaign. Hope and change to detoxify, to unify, to restore vitality and heal a nation. The physical body is not unlike the body politic. With hope and by making better choices, it is possible to change one’s physical and emotional status, to detoxify, to revitalize and to truly heal….
Read More...Real Simple Magazine Taps Experts for Emergency Care Advice
Preparing for Life’s Mishaps by Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Having this card in your wallet could save your life in an ER When Real Simple Magazine reporter contacted me for a story on emergency rooms, I was delighted to help out. I think it’s important for readers to have the perspective from a nurse on the front line of the ER as well as ER doctors. The March edition of Real Simple is on…
Read More...Laughing Your Way to an Even Better You
By Dr. Kevin Soden “You don’t stop laughing because you get old. You get old because you stop laughing.” – Anonymous There is a great deal of wisdom in that saying because we do need to learn to laugh at life especially in these very difficult times. At some instinctual level, the connection between humor and health has been known for thousands of years and is universal to our nature. No matter what civilization or…
Read More...Happiness: It’s Contagious
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA If you’re happy chances are your friends will be happy and their friends will be happy… and so on and so on and so on. When was the last time you felt really happy? Maybe it was this morning, yesterday or last week. Those feelings of joy, cheer, elation, euphoria or whatever you want to call it not only made you feel great, but it affected the people around…
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