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Pediatric Nursing Demands Care for the Family Unit | HSS on the ...

by Richard J. Slote

In honor of National Nurses Week, Richard J. Slote, R.N., shared his perspective on pediatric nursing at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Mr. Slote has worked at HSS for more than 15 years.

As an inpatient nurse, each day is unique and unpredictable. Since our role is patient-driven, the day?s agenda can change often as we?re reacting to patient care needs. I enjoy that no day is the same, which is especially true at HSS since we deal with a wide spectrum of disease states and surgical interventions in our orthopedic and rheumatological pediatric populations.

My philosophy in pediatric nursing is to treat the ?family unit,? which includes the patient, parents or caregivers, siblings and other loved ones. As nurses, we need to cultivate trust and acceptance by the family unit in a very concentrated period of time. Assessing and addressing family dynamics fascinates me and is a part of my holistic nursing approach. Emotional support is an essential part of pediatric nursing. Especially among adolescent patients, feelings of self-esteem and independence can be affected by a disease or injury. My help in decreasing patients? and parents? anxieties through teaching and emotional support often results in visible outcomes, much happier patients and gratified nurses.

I also try to make the hospital experience positive and fun. One rarely thinks of having fun in a hospital, but it is often therapeutic for a patient to have positive associations with their hospitalization. I play board games or video games with the patients, and a little levity helps maintain a favorable connection.

Because of the nature of musculoskeletal disease, many of our patients return to the unit for follow-up procedures, sometimes over years. As a result we get to know the children very well, and many come back for a visit after they?re discharged to show us how well they are doing.

I also enjoy that nursing allows me to work on projects outside of patient care. I am a member of a committee of the Orthopaedic Nursing Certification Board to write questions for the national exam, and I have written two academic articles on topics of pediatric spine and international nursing. I travel annually for a medical mission to Ghana, West Africa, where I treat children with severe spine disorders. This experience has enriched my life immeasurably.

Richard J. Slote, R.N., is a staff nurse on the pediatric inpatient unit of the Hospital for Special Surgery. Slote serves the Orthopaedic Nursing Certification Board and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, and is a volunteer for the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine in Ghana, West Africa.

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Barbara Walters to announce retirement

NEW YORK (AP) ? Barbara Walters is retiring.

The veteran ABC News anchor is set to announce Monday morning on "The View" that she will retire from TV journalism next summer.

ABC said in an announcement late Sunday that, until then, Walters will continue to anchor and report for the network, anchor specials throughout the year, and appear on "The View." She will remain executive producer of "The View," the weekday talk show she created in 1997.

The 83-year-old Walters has spent 37 years at ABC News, joining the network in 1976 to become the first female co-anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine.

Before coming to ABC, she spent 15 years at NBC News, where she was a co-host of the "Today" show.

"I am very happy with my decision," Walters said, "and look forward to a wonderful and special year ahead.

"I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain," she added. "I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women ? and, OK, some men, too ? who will be taking my place."

ABC News President Ben Sherwood said "there is only one Barbara Walters. We look forward to making her final year on television as remarkable, path-breaking and news-making as Barbara herself.

"We look forward to a year befitting her brilliant career," he said, "filled with exclusive interviews, great adventures and indelible memories."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/barbara-walters-announce-her-retirement-monday-023951244.html

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Cherished Hearts At Home: Happy Mothers Day

'Mothers Day' that one day a year when the value of motherhood is celebrated in our society!
How many times has this day not gone exactly to plan in most of our lives.
The reality of the day as opposed to the expectations of the day can sometimes cause an emotional let down not only for the Mama but for those who are trying to create the special day.

And yet the hype that it is given in our?society?is really part of the problem.
The commercialism and the images of a perfect 'Mothers Day.'
This may happen in some homes and yet a lot of mothers who?want?this to be a fantastic day of?memories,?are often surrounded by those very small children who call them mummy, and invariable the?everyday living?of being mummy to them can cause tension and anxiety for everyone involved.

Now?don't?get me wrong I love the the fact that I get to be 'queen of the day' in our home for this day BUT really I aren't I always?
Is this not a?title?that can be applied to every mother?

Am I not the one who can create special times with the family, the one our little and yes big ones come to for help and a wee bit of love and?encouragement.

The fact is Mothers Day is not a single day in each year but the joy that comes from ?being blessed mothers everyday.

The joys and the tears, the?frustrations?and the triumphs are the crowning glory that we have as mothers.
It is in the everyday that we are?cherished?and we choose to cherish and?nurture?those precious souls?entrusted?to us.

Motherhood ?is a GIFT!
A gift we can welcome and enjoy everyday?despite?the days when it all seems too much work.
But oh the countless times that gift can bring such wonder and absolute joy is why 'Mothers Day' is in my opinion EVERYDAY.

May your Mothers Day be a most blessed day surrounded by the love of each of your children who may be near or far, and may the love you have for them and they for you ?never diminish!

Blessings to you and your homes,
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Source: http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-mothers-day.html

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US high school choir will back Rolling Stones

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? You can't always get what you want. Unless, perhaps, you're a member of the Green Valley High School choir and you want a chance to sing onstage with the Rolling Stones.

The Henderson school's choir will join the Stones at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night for the encore performance of their hit song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

Choir director Kim Ritzer said she thought it was a joke when she first got a message on Facebook from someone she didn't know inviting them to sing backup for the famous rockers. She later learned a friend who teaches music at the University of Southern California had recommended them.

"When I announced it to the kids, I think their parents were more excited than they were because some of them didn't even know who the Rolling Stones were," Ritzer told KLAS-TV (http://tinyurl.com/c7w3en4 ).

They sealed the deal with an audition via Skype for a representative of the band in London.

"I called my dad. He was screaming at me over the phone and said, 'Are you kidding me?'" said Kyle Sorenson, a freshman in the Green Valley High choir.

The 24 singers had only had two weeks to learn the song they'll perform with Mick Jagger and company Saturday night. The singers have to be at the arena by 1:30 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show, but nobody is complaining.

"I'm going around going, 'Hey, so who's performing with the Rolling Stones on Saturday?'" senior Alex Miller bragged.

"It's cool, like, a lot of my friends that are into the Rolling Stones are, like, 'Can you get me tickets?' And I'm like, 'No. sorry. It's an exclusive thing.'"

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-high-school-choir-back-rolling-stones-191347809.html

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HBT: Pirates hammer struggling Niese for 8 runs

When Jon Niese was awarded his first Opening Day assignment this year, the hope was that he would help lead the Mets? rotation with Johan Santana sidelined and R.A. Dickey in Toronto. However, while Matt Harvey has quickly emerged as that No. 1 guy, Niese hasn?t looked anything close to the same pitcher.

Niese?s early season struggles continued this afternoon against the Pirates, as he was hammered for eight runs on eight hits and three walks over just 4 1/3 innings. The eight runs allowed matched a career-high.

Niese took a nice step forward last year with a 3.40 ERA in 30 starts, but he now has a 5.93 ERA through eight starts. Meanwhile, he has compiled an ugly 21/22 K/BB ratio over 41 innings and has even lost a tick off his velocity. Not what you want to see from someone who averaged 7.5 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 for his career coming into 2013.

It?s worth noting that Mets manager Terry Collins said Niese was dealing with ?a knot? in his back after he gave up seven runs in four innings against the Braves last Sunday. Niese later downplayed the situation, but one wonders whether he has altered his mechanics to compensate for the discomfort. Either way, something isn?t right.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/11/jon-niese-hammered-for-eight-runs-as-era-rises-to-5-93/related/

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iPad Smart Cover magnets could affect implanted defibrillators

It?s been discovered that the magnets in an iPad Smart Cover are strong to deactivate implanted heart defibrillators, according to a 14-year-old student who discovered the findings during her science fair project. Since then, the student has received a lot of attention from medical professionals and will even speak in front of 8,000 doctors in Denver for the Heart Rhythm Society.

Gianna Chien, who is a high school freshmen in Stockton, California discovered that if you lay the iPad face down on your chest while you?re laying down to take a quick snooze, the magnets in the Smart Cover can get close enough to the heart to cause implanted defibrillators to malfunction and shut off without warning.

However, defibrillators are designed to be turned off by magnets in the first place as a safety precaution, with the assumption that there?s no reason to have magnets close to your chest except to purposely turn off the defibrillator, but it?s easy when you?re laying down to simply rest an iPad on your chest while you take a nap.

Based on a past teardown of the iPad Smart Cover, there?s a total of 21 magnets, with four used to hold the Smart Cover to the iPad, eleven holding the Smart Cover in its triangular stand position, and a single magnet which flicks the iPad 2 in and out of standby mode. According to Chien?s experiment, around 30% of the 26 patients she tried it on had their defibrillators messed with. As for Apple addressing this issue, we could very well be hearing from them, but for the time being, let your grandparents know about this issue if they have a newer iPad with a Smart Cover.

[Source: Bloomberg]

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