Are you up to date with your vaccines? What about your family, are they? Vaccination time can be confusing, not just for the patient. Here is a view from nurse, educator, mom Sharon Buchbinder on vaccinations and safety in the new IOM (Institute of Medicine) expert report. The IOM Report on The Childhood Immunization Schedule … Continue reading »
What is on your summer reading list? Healthcare reform is on top, not just for politicians, but for readers too. For readers of the free reports from IOM, the top 10 this summer start with the Future of Nursing report. Nurses lead healthcare, and are no handmaidens of the doctors now - as nurse Sharon Buchbinder comments here . Equal … Continue reading »
What is the largest part of the healthcare workforce in the U.S.? Nursing is. With over 3 million workers, nursing leads the healthcare workforce in numbers. But nurses’ roles will have to change with healthcare reform. Nurse training has evolved with the times. Has it changed enough? The top read report in the past year, of … Continue reading »
Top 10 Reading List An ocean of new reports came out over the past year, 75 at the IOM (Institute of Medicine) alone. What will be on the top of the 2012 ”to read” list? Will your reading goals include science this year? Here is one slice to look at: the top IOM reports people read over … Continue reading »
