Baby It’s Cold Outside
By Barbara Ficarra Be Careful When Shoveling in a Winter Wonderland While you were sleeping the snow began to fall. Your alarm clock wakes you with the latest weather forecast. “Accumulations of snow totaling 10 inches cover the roads, bitter temperatures of 15 degrees reach across the region and with the wind chill it feels like 2 degrees. Strong gusty winds are whirling between 45 and 50 miles per hours; expect major delays across the…
Read More...Health in 30 with Dr. Kevin Soden, Medical Journalist
[Podcast from the live radio show is coming soon.] Join me on Thursday, May 28, 2009 for a fascinating discussion with Dr. Kevin Soden, a medical journalist for over 20 years appearing on CBS, NBC and most recently on NBC’s Today Show. He now serves as the host for Healthline, the national award-winning daily medical television show seen on the Retirement Living Network. He also serves as the worldwide Medical Director for Texas Instruments and…
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…
Read More...Increased Nurse Staffing Leads to Greater Patient Satisfaction
Increased Nurse Staffing Leads to Greater Patient Satisfaction By Debra Wood, RN, contributor AMN Healthcare [Barbara Ficarra is quoted as an expert in this article about nurse staffing.] American patients generally express satisfaction with their hospital stays, and those treated in facilities with a high ratio of nurses to patient days feel more positively about their experience than other patients, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. “Whenever there…
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