• Catch Up Friday: New Apps, Workshops and Books for Nurses

    It’s catch up Friday again…. We have a host of new books, apps and workshops for nurses. Next week Sept 30 and Oct 1 (Tues & Wed) the IOM is holding a workshop on The Future of Home Health Care: A Workshop in Washington DC. You can view it LIVE for FREE without having to travel. See details on the IOM website. Home health care promises to be one of the fastest growing employment for nurses. You can find out more about home health care nursing from my website HomeHealth101.com. TheJoyCE continuing education tracker app is now available from the CEU Group to help you keep track of all of…

  • Highway Hypodermics a Premier Guide for Travel Nurses

    When nurse authors meet, they swap autographed copies of their books. Epstein LaRue (Epi also known as Kay in the real world)  and I recently met for lunch to celebrate our half birthday. We share July 27 as our real birthday. Epi is now working in So CA as a travel nurse and we just had to find time to meet face to face finally and celebrate! And to swap books and have a photo op. photo (c)Tim Quan : nurse authors Epstein LaRue and Kathy Quan The Highway Hypodermics series is the premier guide for travel nurses in my mind, and Epi is the guru. I never had a…

  • Nursing News…

    Time got away from me last week so here’s some news to catch up on… Teri Mills MS, RN, ANP, CNE announced in the National Nurse Blog last Thursday that the Oregon State Legislature has passed a resolution in support of the Office of a National Nurse. The resolution calls on the U.S. Congress to pass legislation creating this office. Oregon now joins Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York in supporting this cause. Don’t forget to sign the Office of a National Nurse Petition if you haven’t already done so. Ask your friends and family who are registered voters to sign too. Mother Jones at Nurse Ratched’s Place wrote a terrific…