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RN Advice: What is Disease?

October 13, 2014 by

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As an emergency room nurse, I was pretty sure that I understood the concept of disease. I had definitely seen my share of illness, had an advanced degree and specialized certifications.  What I knew was that patients had disease because of family history, lack of attention to their bodies, or sometimes just random luck it […]

RN Advice: Stroke – Is it Just for the Old?

September 3, 2014 by

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As I was contemplating the topic of my article this month, I learned that a dear former (young) co-worker was admitted to the hospital for stroke symptoms. Wow is all I could say. How could this be? Even I associate this disease with old people! Then I remembered a conversation earlier in the month from […]