News
[Cover Story] I started my own business last year. How do I handle the taxes?, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, March 2010
"Heidi Johnson of Washington, D.C., has been a pediatric nurse practitioner for 15 years. After her 3-year-old twins started school a few months ago, Johnson left her job at a pediatrician's office and launched her own business making house calls to families on Capitol Hill. 'I haven't made much money yet,' she says, 'but I'm wondering–what do I need to know about taxes and what can I deduct?'"
Most don't know they have the disease, CDC says, upping risks for transmitting it to others U.S. News & World Report, March 9, 2010
"Heather Royer, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, surveyed 302 women, 18 to 24 years old, about their beliefs about STD testing…many women had misconceptions about testing, Royer's survey found. About 40 percent thought that one test could detect as many as eight STDs, though that is not the case; about one-third incorrectly thought that chlamydia and gonorrhea could be found simply by visual inspection; and 25 percent mistakenly believed that a Pap smear could detect chlamydia and gonorrhea."
Dorothy Jean 'D.J.' Douglas 1927-2010, Wisconsin State Journal, February 26, 2010
"A nurse, a pilot and an academic, Dorothy Jean "D.J." Douglas was a trailblazing woman who taught in medical schools, nursing schools and flight schools. But before all that, Douglas, who died Feb. 10 at age 82, lived as a boy."
http://www.youtube.com/user/ProjectHealthDesign
For more information about Project HealthDesign, a $10 million national program led by Patricia Flatley Brennan, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI professor of Nursing visit: http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/
JSOnline, February 6, 2010
"Nursing and systems engineering professor Patricia Brennan's functional nursing lab, for example, will have a simulated home environment created from a room-sized advanced visualization system that combines high resolution with stereoscopic projection and 3D computer graphics. There, a team of experts in biomedical engineering, fabric and environmental design and computer science will work on projects like improving tools for measuring blood glucose and bettering meters that gauge respiratory function."
City dispatches public health nurses to help Meadowood neighbors connect, The Capital Times, January 30, 2010
"Most people know public health nurses give shots, monitor disease outbreaks, and work to protect our food supply, says Susan Zahner, an associate professor of nursing with UW Madison, but their role in trying to piece together fractured neighborhoods is often an 'invisible' one."
madison.com, December 26, 2009
"No one appreciates all she has more than Karel, a junior guard and the leading scorer for the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team. She’s also come to appreciate that not everyone is so blessed.…The seed of that awareness was planted in a trip to El Salvador during her junior year at St. Paul (Minn.) Cretin-Derham Hall High School and reinforced last summer while touring South Africa with a group of nurses and nursing students."
The Badger Herald, December 9, 2009
"Most college sports fans are familiar with the NCAA ad featuring the tagline: 'There are more than 380,000 student-athletes, and most of them go pro in something other than sports.'…And in preparation for going pro in nursing, one of those student-athletes–UW women’s basketball leading scorer Alyssa Karel–spent two weeks this past summer in South Africa as part of the International Scholar Laureate Program."
Wisconsin Public Radio, Larry Meiller, December 8, 2009, 11:45 a.m.
"Overweight teens has become an important issue for many families. UW-Madison Nursing School Professor Susan Riesch is Larry Meiller's guest…to talk about mixed messages and strategies for families to help their overweight kids."
Wisconsin Week, September 23, 2009
"How do you manage your personal health information? From a shoebox? An expandable folder? Your doctor’s new Web-based software?…One of the nation’s few nurse-industrial engineers thinks both individuals and health systems can manage care better if they had better technology. And she’s leading an eight-year-long national effort to come up with a vision for personal health records that will go far beyond the current crop of ideas for helping people make decisions about their own health."
Op-Ed, The Capital Times, July 27, 2009
"As Congress debates the reform of the American health care system, nurses and the nursing profession must be at the table. Regardless of the health care model that we eventually decide on, nurses can and should be key players in reducing health care costs and increasing efficiency while maintaining the quality of patient care."
President Obama: Health Reform and America's Nurses, YouTube, [MSNBC, July 15, 2009]
"I know how important nurses are and the nation does too. Nurses aren't in health care to get rich—last I checked—they are in it to care for all of us. From the time they bring a new life into this world, till the moment they ease the pain of those who pass from it. If it weren't for nurses, many Americans in underserved and rural areas would have no access to health care at all. And that's why it's safe to say that few understand why we have to pass reform as intimately as our nation's nurses. They see first hand the heartbreaking costs of our health care crisis. They hear the same stories that I have heard across this country…"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pioneer Newsroom, April 7, 2009
“The first round of Project HealthDesign taught us that the needs of patients must be the primary drivers of technological innovation,” said Project HealthDesign Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D.…"
Wisconsin Public Radio, Larry Meiller, March 9, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
"…Larry Meiller discusses attempts to ease the nursing shortage in Wisconsin. His guest is UW-Madison School of Nursing Dean Katharyn May."