Sarah Matacale BSN, RN

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

Tim Raderstorf RN, MSN Masters prepared nurse, Chief Innovation Officer at Ohio State University College of Nursing, Speaker, inventor, entrepreneur, consultant........say what???!!! These are just the titles and roles that Tim Raderstorf currently p...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

In nursing school, I was drawn to the "down and dirty core of nursing" that hospice care provides the patient, family and the nurse. I came straight out of nursing school and was privileged to work for years with the Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice care ce...

This story is very personal to me and my family. I am certain I will cry my way through writing it, but it is an important story to tell. I believe it will help me heal in some way and help others as it is rare and misunderstood. It is a story of a c...

i am so sorry that this happened to you. I do believe that we are shaped by the good and bad in our lives and you are choosing to do the good. You are a caring person because you can empathize with others. please do continue doing the good you do ...

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I hoped when writing this that it would reach people who can reach others. Whether is is through challenges a person faces or reaching out to people in need

Thank you! It really is not common or spoken of much

By definition, an innovator is "a person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products". Allnurses.com will be featuring nurses that are innovators as a regular series to encourage other nurses to "think outside the box" and create new ideas for the...

I love it! So glad to hear from people who she has helped!!!