November 2020 • Volume 14, No. 11 From the Editor November is National Diabetes Month. As a perioperative nurse, you have undoubtedly encountered some aspects of diabetes mellitus (DM), such as wound care, vision issues or potential amputations in your patient...
OCTOBER 2020 • Volume 14, No. 10 From the Editor It’s time for NIFA’s Halloween issue, our annual break from the serious business of nursing. A little spooky fun can be a good counterbalance to the actual scary things in the headlines right about now. But this year,...
SEPTEMBER 2020 • Volume 14, No. 9 From the Editor Autumn greetings! This month we take for our surgical topic the gallbladder and gallbladder surgery. Cholecystectomy, or surgical removal of the gallbladder, is one of the procedures NIFA teaches in our hands-on...
AUGUST 2020 • Volume 14, No. 8 From the Editor How are you doing, as we head toward fall in this unusual year? So many folks are deliberating next steps in their careers right now. Whether you are considering a change or hewing to the same path you’ve been on,...
July 2020 • Volume 13, No. 7 From the Editor Last week my 30-something-year-old next-door neighbor had an emergency appendectomy. She was back home the next day, a little shaky but feeling much better. That got me thinking. Despite appendectomy being one of the...
