NY Nurse Practitioner Helps Shape Lives

Miraclebody Jeans ran a contest in April 2010 to search for women who make a difference and help shape lives. Megan Sikorski of New York was one of the four women chosen.

Megan is a Nurse Practitioner in pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY.  She is also a volunteer doula who specializes in working with under served single pregnant teens. Congratulations Megan!! You do make a difference!

FREE Web Seminar on Retirement for Nurses

A FREE web seminar on Planning for Retirement: A Guide for Nurses and Other Busy Women will be held next Thursday, July 29 at 2:0 PM EDT.

According to the sponsors, the US Department of Labor, EBSA, the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and the Center for American Nurses, "Planning for a secure retirement can be challenging for women. Women are twice as likely as men to live in or near poverty in old age, and many women who were never poor during their working years, will find themselves struggling to get by in retirement. The time to start planning for these years is now."

Changes

The Nursing Site Blog will be restored in the next few days. Please be patient
Thanks
Kathy

New Patient's Bill of Rights

A new Patient's Bill of Rights has been made possible as the health care reform act begins to be enacted beginning in September. Read this list of consumer protections and help your patients understand their new rights.

The Nursing Site Rebuilt

TheNursingSite.com has now been redesigned and rebuilt. If you are trying to link to a URL and getting a broken link, please refer to the Article Index to locate the files. Articles are now stored as .pdf fies and will require a .pdf reader to open such as Adobe Reader.

Some links from the articles to other articles may not yet work, but those files can be found in the Article Index as well. 

Happy July 4th

Happy July 4th! Have a safe and happy holiday!!! Take a moment to give thanks and say a prayer for our military nurses. Here's a great post from Sara Ellis that puts it all in perspective. Thanks Sara!

Troubles with Hosting

If you've been trying to access The Nursing Site, and even this blog over the last few days, I appologize for any issues.

I am setting up new hosting for The Nursing Site so that eventually it can be more efficient and I can update the site more easily. However, this is taking forever to accomplish!!!

Somehow the hosting folks have now lost my nameservers info for the blog too and so we're experiencing some intermittent troubles. Hopefully it will all resolve SOON!!! I'm soooo frustrated with it, and I'm sure you are too.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

HAPPY 4th of July!!!!!

Meg Whitman Taking on California Nurses-- Political Suicide?

Meg Whitman has chosen to take on the California Nurses Association in her campaign to become the next governor of California. She didn't learn that this can be a very dangerous thing for CA politicians to do? Nurses are joining teachers and other unions to donate millions and campaign for Democratic candidate Jerry Brown. Read more....