March 24, 2015

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Oh Snap! Photo Contest

Medical Volunteers Help Terminally Ill Patients Visit Their Favorite Destinations One Last Time

Quote of the Week

Facebook Community is Over 26,300 "Likes"

IOM Halftime Report: Are Future of Nursing Goals Within Reach?

College Kids Make Robotic Arms For Children Without Real Ones

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Oh Snap! Photo Contest

Medical Volunteers Help Terminally Ill Patients Visit Their Favorite Destinations One Last Time

A Dutch organization called "Ambulance Wens" (Ambulance Wish) fulfills the last wishes of terminally ill patients free of charge thanks to its 200 medical volunteers.

The company says, "There are still too many patients who die without getting to close everything. One of those reasons is the inability to achieve certain desires because the patient is no longer mobile and other existing facilities are inadequate for this purpose."

Quote of the Week

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

-Helen Keller

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IOM Halftime Report: Are Future of Nursing Goals Within Reach?

In 2010, the Institute of Medicine issued eight recommendations that dared to transform the nursing profession by 2020. This year marks the midway point for reaching the goals outlined in the report "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," and statistics at halftime offer a glimpse into nursing's progress so far.

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College Kids Make Robotic Arms For Children Without Real Ones

By the time Cynthia Falardeau read about Alex Pring, a little boy who got a battery-powered robotic arm last summer, she had made peace with her son Wyatt's limb difference.

Her premature baby had been born with his right arm tangled in amniotic bands. At a week old, doctors amputated his dead forearm and hand. They were afraid his body would be become infected and he would die. Falardeau mourned her boy's missing arm for years but, in time, embraced her son as he was.

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Items from our Blog

Visiting Nurses, Helping Mothers on the Margins

Giving Voice

LGBT People In Rural Areas Struggle To Find Good Medical Care

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