December 2018 • Volume 11, No. 12 From the Editor The Spirit of Giving is in the air, as advertisements strewn throughout your day like so much holiday tinsel will tell you. Don’t get me wrong—we love traditional gift-giving. But NIFA’s Annual Giving Issue takes the...
November 2018 • Volume 11, No. 11 From the Editor Here we stand on the brink of the holidays, gazing out over a two-month landscape dotted with tempting pies, cookies, candies and sugary beverages. It’s fitting that November is American Diabetes Month, because...
October 2018 • Volume 11, No. 10 From the Editor It’s t-t-time for our annual Halloween edition, when we depart from the day-to-day world of nursing and enter the realm of the spooky. Join us if you dare! Our student in the spotlight is Shanna Duhe, BSN, RN, CNOR, of...
September 2018 • Volume 11, No. 9 From the Editor The third week in September is International Clean Hands Week, which gives us a good opportunity to take a closer look at something our readers as medical professionals might take for granted: Sanitation and...
August 2018 • Volume 11, No. 8 From the Editor August is back-to-school month and spinal muscle atrophy awareness (SMA) month. Coincidence? We think not. Although many cases of SMA are diagnosed in infancy, back-to-school season is often the time when children get...
June 2018 • Volume 11, No. 6 From the Editor Everybody in our perioperative working world seems to be working harder than ever—trying to keep up with more and more communications and respond to more and more demands. All that activity can be fun and rewarding,...
