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HealthCetera: looking ahead, not looking back.

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Founder, Health Economist, Advisor, Blogger at THINK-Health and Health Populi blog wrote Nursing Is Seen As The Most Ethical Profession in America; Congress Members, Least. In her post she analyzed results from the 2016 version of the annual Gallup poll on ethics in professions, Americans Rate Healthcare Providers High on Honest, Ethics, published last month.

Sarasohn-Kahn wrote:
“As President Trump begins to lead the country as a health reform president, potentially repealing the Affordable Care Act, healthcare providers can leverage the goodwill they have among the electorate crossing the political aisle. The Gallup survey illustrates a huge chasm between politicians and healthcare. Nurses in America have been strong political players in the past, especially as patient advocates. I expect and respect that they will continue to play this role in health reform developments in and beyond 2017.”

We agree with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn.

HealthCetera’s Nurse Messenger Training is designed for nurses who want to be spokespersons for health and health policy issues. We teach nurses to be media savvy, how to select topics, stories, and issues in their area of expertise and use multiple media platforms to have significant impact on health and health policy.

Nurses who want to up their game and become media makers can contact us to schedule a media training.

We commit to use HealthCetera’s media platforms – this blog, HealthCetera Radio, Twitter and Facebook to probe deeply and honestly about health and health policy issues to engage and inform the public.

HealthCetera is looking ahead, not looking back.

Happy New Year!

Barbara Glickstein

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January 2, 2017

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Enabling Older Adults to Be Independent

Source: http://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/research/projects/capable/

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that older adults who are walked routinely while hospitalized have shorter lengths of stay and return to home with less frailty and functional decline than those who are not walked. On Thursday, December 29, 2016, on HealthCetera, producer and nurse Diana Mason talks about this issue with one of the leaders in this field, Dr. Barbara King, an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the lead researcher on a study on walking older adults during hospitalization that was recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Linsey Barker Steege joined Barbara King on this study as an engineer. Dr. Steege is also an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. You can listen to the interview here:

Dr. Mason then turns her attention to another approach to keeping older adults functioning as independently as possible in their own homes. She talks with Dr. Sarah Szanton, a nurse practitioner and professor of nursing at Johns Hopkins University, about her model of care that keeps older adults functioning at higher levels in their own homes or apartments by providing support to enhance their capacity to live independently through limited nursing care, occupational therapy and home repairs. Called CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place – Advancing Better Living for Elders), the model is reducing nursing home and hospital admissions, improving functioning and quality of life, and reducing health care costs. You can listen to the interview here:

So tune in at 1:00 to HealthCetera on Thursday, December 29, 2016, on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City, and streaming at www.wbai.org. Or listen anytime using the above links.

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December 29, 2016

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What if we treated mental disorders as a brain electrical circuit malfunction?

“What if mental disorders were caused by electrical changes in the brain?”

At TEDMED 2016, Kafui Dzirasa MD, PhD., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University explained why mental disorders like bipolar disorder and other mental disorders are more than just chemical imbalances.

Dr. Kzirasa is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He’s also an engineer. He talks about his personal experience with family members with mental disorders and his deep frustration by the slow progress in better understanding these mental disorders. He is committed to finding answers that will move the needle to advancing major breakthroughs in brain science.

In this interview hear Dzirasa’s short tutorial on the workings of the brain and how the next steps in research will require a bold engineering approach to address mental disorders.

In his lifetime, he wants to help his own family members living with a mental disorder and future family members. His ultimate goal is to combine his engineering background, medical training, and community experience to improve outcomes for families devastated by neurological and psychiatric illness.

This interview will air on HealthCetera on Thursday, December 22 at 1:30 PM ET on wbai 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio and streamed live on wbai.org

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