April 2017 • Volume 10, No. 4 From the Editor Since the World Health Organization developed the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist in 2008, the use of checklists at key points during every surgical procedure has become more and more the norm in health-care settings around the...
March 2017 • Volume 10, No. 3 From the Editor March is colorectal cancer awareness month, so this month we are focusing on that issue. Just last month a new study was released (see below) showing that new cases of colon cancer and rectal cancer are occurring at an...
February 2017 • Volume 10, No. 2 From the Editor Operating the nation’s largest online training program for RN First Assistants gives NIFA an excellent observation deck for noticing trends in the industry. One trend we see is that more and more APRN (Advanced Practice...
January 2017 • Volume 10, No. 1 From the Editor Although politics have stolen the show this month, dominating conversations from the water cooler to the dinner table to the media, January is still the time of year when many people take a clear, hard look at their own...
December 2016 • Volume 9, No. 12 From the Editor In this season of gifts and, for many of us, abundance, we bring you our annual Giving Issue. Here we focus on those in our community who go out of their comfort zones to give people the gift of medical care in remote...
