Nevertheless, I'm not going to do a recap of all the best nuggets this year. You'll just have to go look at the rest of them and decide on your own, but here are a few of the latest crop.
Enjoy your 366th day today...it'll be over soon enough and you won't get another for four more years.
From the 'net...
Tight blood sugar control is mentioned in just about every article you read about diabetes these days. This article from the NY Times mentions another great reason to keep your blood sugar controlled--memory loss.
I, like some of my other fellow nurse bloggers, am a big fan of soup in winter. I ran into this handy, dandy red lentil soup one today. Get your protein (when combined with rice, etc.) and enjoy the cold with this aromatic soup. Since we're all coughing and hacking here, it can't hurt!
Did Santa bring you some new shoes? This article from ADVANCE for Nurses talks about what kind of shoes nurses should wear to work.
Goodies from work (or a few things I've encountered recently on the floor...)
Here are some of the pharmaceutical items:
- Short chain fatty acid enemas- This was a big, 60cc syringe of cloudy fluid one patient used twice weekly. This article on ulcerative colitis talks about this treatment.
- Mometasone Furoate - It also goes by Asmanex and we've got a few people using this twisty inhaler lately.
- Vantin - 'Tis the season for pneumonia, especially in SCI patients.
Finally, I had a patient recently with a history of PSVT. Medscape has a great article about this arrhythmia with sections on diagnosis, treatment and a multimedia section with graphics of what an EKG might look like.
More nuggets to come...stay tuned!