By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA In my recent post on KevinMD, “Deeply connect and engage your patients with empathy,” I write about how empathy is essential to help empower our patients. “It is with empathy that we can engage and empower our patients.” Doctors and nurses are leaders in health care. Being a great leader means having a clear vision, mission or goal. It means being committed, and knowing how to listen and communicate,…
Read More...Blogs on Huffington Post in Health and Living News
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA My latest Huffington Post blogs. Engaging Consumers in Health IT: Read Full Post How to Maximize Your Doctor’s Visit: Read Full Post The 3 Secrets to a Wildly Popular YOU: Read Full Post — Thanks for your time. I hope you enjoy The Huffingtong Post blogs. Please share your thoughts below. More on Huffington Post. Follow me on Twitter.
Read More...When Doctors and Nurses Work Together
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA From KevinMD’s medical blog, in a recent post, Kevin Pho, MD answers the question, “Is the doctor-patient relationship really more sacrosanct than the nurse-patient relationship?” posed by Theresa Brown from the Well Blog, The New York Times Health Blog. The answer is “clearly no” writes Pho. Physicians have the ultimate responsibility for treatment decisions, but because nurses spend so much more time with hospital patients than doctors do, we…
Read More...Dr. Bill Crounse Talks with Todd Park: Comparing Health Insurance Plans Made Easy
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Microsoft’s Dr. Bill Crounse Talks with Todd Park, CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on Health Tech Today There is a plethora of health information for consumers today. We are surrounded by smart meaningful material, but somehow it is easy to get lost in the maze of information. We get stuck navigating through it and we find it hard to obtain information that is right…
Read More...Dr. Mehmet Oz and Jeff Arnold launch Sharecare.com, where experts share their knowledge with consumers
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Sharecare.com launched yesterday in San Francisco at the Health 2.0 conference and while I was unable to attend this exciting event, I followed the live twitter feed (#health2con) and it almost felt like I was there. Having attended the Health 2.0 conferences in the past, the excitement and energy that circulates is always infectious. As a registered nurse, I am thrilled and honored to be included and surrounded by…
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