Dr Georgianna Donadio PhD

Whole Health and Behavioral Health

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    A Letter to my Hospice Patient

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Meagan's topic in General Nursing

    Hello Meagan, Thank you for this touching article. It is the humanity of nursing that makes it special, isn't it? It was 1963 when I entered nursing and, while the profession has gone through many...
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    How Gossip Hurts All of Us

    Dr Georgianna Donadio posted a topic in General Nursing

    Despite its evolutionary origins as a method of establishing social networks, gossip is among the negative behaviors we frown upon as a culture. Defined by Webster's as a "rumor or report of an...
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    How Gossip Hurts All of Us

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you DCubed and subee for sharing your insights! Yes, imagine how lovely life would be if all of us agreed to not talk about one another, unless we had something positive to say! Many thanks and...
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    How Gossip Hurts All of Us

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    Hello TitaniumPlates, Thanks for your wonderful response -very well said. Ignoring or walking away is hard but extremely effective. My grandmother used to say the best way to give someone the message...
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    Personal and Professional Benefits of Self Care

    Dr Georgianna Donadio posted a topic in General Nursing

    As trusted health professionals it is our responsibility, and our calling as nurses, to provide compassionate, competent care, as well as to educate our patients and clients on an important topic in...
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    Personal and Professional Benefits of Self Care

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    Hello Snatchedwig - One of the biggest challenges many nurses face is taking the time to take care of ourselves. Even if we start with one small thing, like taking a multiple vitamin, or 5 minutes of...
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    Personal and Professional Benefits of Self Care

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    Hello tinyRN72, Thank you for sharing your experience with self-care. Its quite remarkable how often we "don't know what we are missing" until we take the leap to try something different. Good for...
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    Dog Therapy As Good Medicine For Seniors

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in Nursing News

    Hello jeastridge, More and more therapy dogs and emotional support animals are being used in many hospitals. They are effective with young and old alike and are a "trend" that is being considered...
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    Dog Therapy As Good Medicine For Seniors

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in Nursing News

    Hello homeopathylover, Thanks for your comment and happy to hear your mother is doing well with your dog. They are amazing "angels among us" and its wonderful to see how they are now getting...
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    Your Third Act

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Carol Ebert's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Yes, dad was a great role model in many ways. He taught us to stay humble, work hard and be grateful. A pretty good formula for happiness. Kind regards,
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    Your Third Act

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Carol Ebert's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hello RobbiRN - Thanks for a great article! I read recently that we are not considered "getting old" until we pass 72 years and then we can be a "young older person" or an "old older person" depending...
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    Nutrition Counseling in Nursing Practice

    Dr Georgianna Donadio posted a topic in General Specialties

    More and more nurses are leaving bedside care or physician-led practices to pursue their desire to practice less symptom driven medical care and have more disease prevention and health maintenance...
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    Nutrition Counseling in Nursing Practice

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Specialties

    Hello HCT, Fortunately, the man did not die but was impaired, which is bad enough. I agree with and understand everything you are saying. Today, boundaries are blurred, especially with nutrition. Many...
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    Nutrition Counseling in Nursing Practice

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Specialties

    Hello HCT and thank you for your comment. ou are COMPLETELY spot on regarding nutrition counseling. As a nurse educator, the intent of the article was to caution nurses that the practice of nutrition...
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    Anyone done NIWH Whole Health Educator program?

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to BetterSafe's topic in Holistic

    Hello JRaphasRN, Thanks for posting your comments. Not everyone shares the same experience going through a program and clearly yours was very different from the majority of our graduates. There are...
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    Anyone done NIWH Whole Health Educator program?

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to BetterSafe's topic in Holistic

    Hello cbrubaker, If you would like more information about our program (a comprehensive e-mail which includes comments from our nurse graduates and their websites with their permission) please feel...
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    Nutrition Counseling in Nursing Practice

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Specialties

    Hello Golden RN MSN - Yes, unfortunately, there is so much misinformation about nursing private practice that it is becoming, in the words of my colleagues on the national nursing boards "an...
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    Anyone done NIWH Whole Health Educator program?

    Dr Georgianna Donadio replied to BetterSafe's topic in Holistic

    There is much confusion regarding the use of NPI numbers for nurses. The NPI number is a unique identification number for an individual nurse's services to be billed and reimbursed for. Unless a nurse...