Skip to main content
Search
Search

Filter By

All Search Results

  • Chicken Nugget Dilemma — When to Worry About Your Kid’s Eating

    We’ve all heard it from friends or family, or maybe in our own household: the kid who eats only peanut butter. Or cereal. Or chicken nuggets. As a parent, you know children go through phases, and that’s not a bad thing — a child expressing preferences is experimenting with independence. But when should you worry about the impact on your child’s growth and nutrition?

  • Take a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment. It Saved Actress Olivia Munn’s Life

     

  • How To Share Your Cancer Diagnosis with Family and Friends

     

  • 8 Ways To Stay Motivated During Rehab

    If you are starting down the road to recovery after a serious injury or surgery, there may be a significant distance between where you are now and where you want to be. And with recovery timelines that can stretch across months, there may be times when you struggle to stay motivated.

  • Manage Your COVID-19 Stress Before It Manages You

    The goal of managing stress and anxiety during a crisis or even a global pandemic is to reduce the emotional anguish that can be caused by the event. Doing so allows us to care more effectively for ourselves, our families and our loved ones. 

  • The Remarkable Ways Social Support Can Improve Cancer Outcomes

    Many people think that a support group for cancer patients will be depressing or filled with tragic stories. But often the opposite is true. These meetings can be filled with hope, humor and laughter as members share their trials and triumphs. Recent studies have confirmed what many oncology nurses, social workers and patients know — that social support is one of the most important variables in our recovery from illness. Such studies are significant because they emphasize that whole-health approaches can lead to more favorable results.

  • Doing It Better: Christina McGuirk, RN, BSN, MSHA, NEA-BC, CENP Chief Nursing Officer, Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital

    When Christina McGuirk was eight years old, she experienced a hospital stay that would shape the rest of her life. The ordeal was a distressing one, and because of an interaction she had with a nurse, she decided then and there that she would one day become an outstanding RN. “I made a vow that under my care, patients would not feel helpless, scared and embarrassed,” she says. 

  • Day in the Life: Craig Gilmer

    I’ve worked in recruiting and human resources for over a decade and what drew me to the profession all those years ago still keeps me going today: connecting people with great opportunities and giving them the chance to succeed.

  • A Day in The Life of a Hospital Transporter

    As a transporter working at a large hospital, my job is technically moving patients from point A to point B, then on to point C and so on. We are an important part of the hospital’s overall efficiency because without the work we do, patients would not be able to get from their rooms to operating rooms, x-ray facilities, labs or anywhere else. Just as important, however, is that I often connect with patients and am one of the few hospital employees they can just talk to about whatever they want, not just about how they feel physically or where it hurts.

  • Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy: Advantages of the DIEP Flap Procedure

    The past decade has ushered in major technical advancements in autologous breast reconstruction, which is done using a patient’s own tissue. The most common techniques include the use of skin, muscle, fat, or artificial implants to reconstruct the breast. The use of abdominal skin and fat has gained in popularity, offering patients a more natural look and feel, similar to that of the natural breast. Other advantages of using a patient’s own tissue in reconstruction includes: the avoidance of artificial breast implants, the body contouring that comes with removal of excess abdominal fat, and the possibility of restoring sensation to the new breasts.