An interesting story about nurses appeared in our local newspaper this morning.It explained to readers about “rapid response” nurses and teams, whose goal it is to stop big trouble like Code Blues before they happen.The teams give permission to...

It looks like obesity is the new smoking.According to a new study published in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the gains in the overall health status of Americans achieved from kicking the tobacco habit could be wiped out...

Nurses don’t wish ill of anyone, but when the worst happens, we want to be there.At least some of us do – like the nurses who were on duty Nov. 5 at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas, where 10 of the victims of the Fort Hood shootings were...

I’ve always known being an ER nurse can be a dangerous gig.I’ve heard stories and seen it firsthand. Once, when reporting on area emergency rooms for our local newspaper, I witnessed two incidences of violence. I spent several hours in the ER...

We all remember Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan from the popular television series M.A.S.H.Sometimes ditzy in the social arena, she was a highly skilled and knowledgeable nurse when it came to performing in the battlefield OR during the Korean War....