Sarah Matacale BSN, RN

Sarah Matacale has 20 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Clinical Documentation.

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1. Trick OR Treat?! The TRICKS to avoiding food allergies and how to TREAT them

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

   Halloween can be a nightmare for kids with food-based allergies and the parents who have to monitor for them. This seemingly simple holiday is not as easy for some as a knock on the door and getting a treat; it can mean life-threatening anaphylaxis a...

2. From Student Nurse to Nurse Influencer Rockstar - Meet Kati Kleber BSN, RN, CCRN-K

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

   For many of us who know of Kati Kleber, it's as a nurse on a cardiac med-surg step-down unit, the author of several books including Becoming Nursey, or as a speaker, blogger and podcaster specializing in educating and supporting brand new nurses. As ...

3. Is it Just Like Grey's Anatomy? Our Doctor/ Nurse Love Story

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a nurse...married to a Doctor. That notion seems to spark a lot of interesting conversation and questions in the non-medical public. The title of this article being one of them. "Oh wow....is it just like you see on Grey's Anatomy?" My husban...

4. School Nurses - Does Their Compensation Match Their True Worth?

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in School

   This article is featured in the July 2018 edition of our allnurses Magazine... Download allnurses Magazine School nurses have always been one of the most diverse and unique subspecialties in nursing throughout the decades. While the specific job resp...

5. "Dancing Doc" Video....Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

   To all of us health professionals (professionals being the key word here), this one will leave you speechless. I am sure by now many of you have seen the viral YouTube video of an Atlanta dermatologist dancing and twerking with her staff over an unco...

6. School nurses...do you work through the summer?

   Sarah Matacale replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in School

   Add additional comments or areas that apply. I would also like to know of any other work you do during the summer

7. School nurses...do you work through the summer?

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in School

   School nurses....do you work through the summer? Is it mandatory? If so how many hours per week? I am writing an article including the results of this poll in the next issue of allnurses magazine.

8. "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

   A "safe house" for drug users to use drugs with clean equipment and trained professional supervision using public funding.....what the what????!!! Am I reading this correctly? This instantly stirred up strong feelings and opinions for this nurse, mom...

9. My Sweet Daughter's Smile

   Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

   Let me start by saying that I am a Nurse and my husband is a Physician and neither one of us go anywhere near Pediatric patients in our professions. We don't even pretend to know what's up with that portion of the medical world's population. Since th...

10. My First Mammogram - A Comedy

    Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

    Somehow, much to my surprise, I turned 40 a few years ago. I don't know how it happened, but I double checked my birth certificate and sure enough...40 years old! Shortly after this shocking realization, came a letter in the mail from my gynecologist...

11. When YOU are the ".001% of Patients" Who Develops the Serious Medication Side- Effect

    Sarah Matacale posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a critical care trained Registered Nurse turned patient who developed one of those RARE side-effects that can happen when you take any medication. The only medical condition I have is Irritable Bowel Syndrome, (the "C" kind.... constipation). As...

12. Meet Ersilia Pompilio RN,MSN,PNP

    Sarah Matacale posted a topic in Entrepreneurs

    Ersilia Pompilio RN, MSN, PNPStoryteller, Educator, Producer, Nurse, and Super Cool Lady! I can't wait to introduce Ersilia Pompilio to everyone at allnurses! As her subtitle reads, she is a nurse innovator and entrepreneur, that has found a niche us...

13. What 5 Innovative Minds Can Do!

    Sarah Matacale posted a topic in Entrepreneurs

    This may be one of the coolest and most challenging innovator articles I have written yet! I want to make sure I give justice to this awesome group of nurses who came together with interest in one specific population and developed an idea that gives ...

14. Psst...New Nurses

    Sarah Matacale posted a topic in New Nurse

    I realize that there are so many articles, blogs, books and inspirational bookmarks, coffee cups, and laminated lanyard tags that tell you how to be a great nurse. You learn throughout nursing school how to calculate BMI, use your posture to leverage...

15. April 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

    Sarah Matacale replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

    Nurses note: respiration easy and unlabored at 20 breaths per minute, heart sounds regular and even at 70 beats/min, resting comfortably in bed, side rails up×2. No distress noted