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Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellbeing Nurses Advocates

WEBEvaluate your diet: Eating well is an important part of improving your health and reducing your risk of cancer and other chronic conditions. Take a good hard look at …

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The Patient as the Center of the Healthcare Team

WEBCaptain of the Healthcare Team: Physicians: The Physician’s role is to diagnose and treat. He or she is responsible for the patient and directs the healthcare …

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How to Make the Most of Your Health Insurance Nurses Advocates

WEBAnne, definitely comprehensive. Jeff, yes, as we approach Medicare age, we do have options on the type of insurance we choose. It is our responsibility as Anne …

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Improving Outcomes Through Patient Engagement

WEBTools like Shared Decision Making, the Patient Activation Measures, and Telemedicine are developing strategies to assist physicians and patients in improving …

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*5* Simple Tips on How to Achieve Your Ultimate Health and …

WEBHealth and wellness are something we all struggle to achieve. In this week's post, I invited, Sandra Kahn, a long-time colleague, and friend, to write this week's Blog …

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Cost, Quality, and Access: The Three Ingredients for a Stable …

WEBIn this post, I wanted to continue the conversation and talk about two other ingredients essential for a stable health care system; improving quality and containing …

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Demystifying the Cost of Healthcare: Educate

WEBWe make educated decisions on the products and services we purchase every day by using the information provided to us on cost and value. Yet, we go blindly …

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Ensuring Safe Transitions of Care Nurses Advocates

WEBTransitions of Care occur when a patient moves from one setting to the next. Transitions are the riskiest times when patients can fall through the cracks of the …

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Building Trust with Your Health Insurance Company

WEBIn my last post, I talked about talking to your healthcare team.In this week’s post, I wanted to discuss building trust with your health insurance company. The first …

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Tips for a Productive Doctor's Appointment Nurses Advocates

WEBMake notes while you are with the doctor to remember what was said, what you need to do, and what the doctor/nurse needs to do for you. Put a due date on any …

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A Book Review: The Secret Language of Healthcare: How to Ask …

WEBRecent Posts. Self Care and Wellness: Taking Your Own Pulse; Celebrating Nurses! It’s National Stress Less Week; Setting Realistic Expectations in a Challenging …

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The Greatest Wealth is Health Nurses Advocates

WEBIt is said that if you have your health, you have everything. Yet, according to a study of 501 men ages 45 to 65 conducted by Men’s Health Network in 2014, men …

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Telehealth: The Next Step in Improving the Delivery of Care

WEBTelemedicine is transforming our healthcare system in three distinct ways, by increasing access to primary care doctors and specialists; reduced costs; and improved …

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Population Health Colloquium 2018 Update Nurses Advocates

WEBAs a digital journalist and nurse blogger, I look for events that explore the challenges we face in today’s complex work of healthcare and offer innovative solutions …

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Nine Tips to Help You Be An Active Participant in Your Health and

WEBTip Five: Ask questions. As they say, there are no ‘stupid’ questions, and this is especially true when it comes to your health and healthcare. Today, consumers …

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Breast Cancer Awareness: Strength, Courage and Hope

WEBBREAST CANCER IS SURVIVABLE – Most patients are able to travel the road of diagnosis, surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and perhaps a clinical trial. …

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A Real Life Example of Going Above and Beyond to Help Our …

WEBThis is one of the many examples of how frontline workers in healthcare professionals, members of our public health systems , law enforcement, firemen and …

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Writing Your Medical Autobiography Nurses Advocates

WEBFrancine can help organize your personal health information onto one simple document as described in this post. You can reach Francine at …

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Let’s Celebrate: It National Case Management Week

WEBHappy Case Management Week! This is a week that professionals specializing in case management take time to ‘toot’ their own horn. If you, a family …

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