Category Archives: Cardiac Nursing

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University hosted the Legacy of Arthur Ashe in the 21st Century lecture, on Wednesday Dec. Continue reading →

Wed., Nov. 20, 2019 Alexis Skjelbred dreamed at an early age of becoming a nurse. With academic struggles because of test anxiety, she gave up that idea during high school Continue reading →

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PEA REANG, Cambodia Far outside the increasingly modern capital of Phnom Penh, out amid countless waterlogged rice paddies and farms of pink lotus blossoms where villagers eat deep-fried tarantulas as a treat, a survivor lies in a hospital bed tethered to brand new medical equipment. The genocide she lived through as a teenage girl wiped out a third of Cambodias population Continue reading →

Two years after a horrific attack at a Las Vegas hotel became the deadliest shooting in modern American history, a California woman who was shot and paralyzed that night has died. The woman, Kim Gervais, 57, was a country music fan, small-business owner and mother of two daughters Continue reading →

SUS-191121-121801001 Published: 14:53 Friday 22 November 2019 Ex-cardiac patients who volunteer to help other patients rehabilitate following a heart attack or heart procedure have been recognised for their support to cardiac rehabilitation. Nine volunteers with over 45 years of cardiac rehabilitation experience between them were presented with certificates by the nursing team to mark their invaluable contribution to the cardiac rehabilitation at Eastbourne DGH. Amy Pennells, acting cardiac rehabilitation sister, said, The Eastbourne cardiac rehabilitation volunteers are quite simply amazing. Continue reading →

Drones May Have a Role in Healthcare After All Although todays drones dont have the capability of administering CPR for a cardiac arrest victim, Jessica Zegre-Hemsey shared that they still might be able to increase the victim's chances of survival. Continue reading →

The long-awaited inspection of the structure of Guam Memorial Hospital by the Army Corps of Engineers has found that our only public hospital "won't collapse tomorrow"; "existing roof system has exceeded its useful life"; and much of the hospital needs replacing. The general issues identified by the 13-member parade of engineers have been previously identified year after year by numerous hospital administrators, elected officials, media partners, patients, and health care professionals Continue reading →

Case a British nurse, spoken-word artist and writer whose poem Nursing the Nation went viral several years ago explains how hospitals assess critically ill patients with the ABCDE technique, checking their airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure. She divides How to Treat People into the same sections, illustrating what each term means on its most basic human level by dipping in and out of anecdotes from her training and her years on a cardiac unit. Of breathing, Case writes, The feel of breath on the fine, peach-skin hairs of my cheek would tell me if this person were still living; sometimes the last breaths come so slow, the only way of catching them is to come in cheek-close and wait for the feel of them. Continue reading →

Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) celebrated its outstanding alumni and retirees for their leadership and service in two Hall of Fame ceremonies held Tuesday, November 12 at the Calmar campus and Monday, November 18 at the Peosta campus. The three Calmar campus alumni inductees included a pair of Waukon High School graduates, Kathy (Berns) Moritz of Lansing and Trish (Regan) Shelton of Waukon. Printed below are their biographical stories shared by NICC as part of their Hall of Fame recognition: KATHY MORITZHard work, dedication and devotion to family defined Kathy Moritz while growing up as one of 11 siblings on a 600-acre farm in rural Harpers Ferry. Continue reading →