Harsh combination of words. However, we must accept that where ever there is life; death is hiding in its beautiful and hope-filled shadows. This is the same for new life. I remain dedicated to reducing infant mortality in the United States. We absolutely can reduce the number of fatalities that come from unnecessary hospital acquired [...]
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It is National Patient Safety Week. This website is dedicated to improving safe care for newborns, infant, children – and of course their parents. Here are 4 Must Watch Videos for New Moms/Dads and Their Babies: 1.Three Words (Thanks to Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PA!) This video may be a couple of years old but [...]
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Calling doctor, nurse, mom, dad, and everyone There is something this weekend that needs to be done Take care of your heart, take care of a child Grab 2 hours and enjoy something sort of wild Trees that are puffy and yellow, pink, blue, and green So beautiful are they you will never want to [...]
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Babies are beautiful. When you are the parent of a medically needy child, you are the lone nonclinical representative in a team full of people that does not see the world way you do. Getting your point across and sharing your knowledge is vitally important. Getting it across in a way that does not close [...]
Read more →Taking care of baby means taking care of mommy first. I have recently begun serving on an advisory panel to reduce OB adverse events by 50% in two years. Among the healthy discussions in determining what our focus will be obesity of the mom was mentioned. As an educator and a mom, it seems that [...]
Read more →The New Zealand based healthcare improvement organization, Waitawahai – or Compassion in Healthcare published on their website this article on how to heal healthcare. http://www.compassioninhealthcare.org/uploads/91779/files/241924/PeaceinHealthcareMEM.pdf The courage to find peace – a mother’s story Mary Ellen Mannix is one of our international correspondents writing from Pennsylvania, USA. Her first contribution for us starts with a [...]
Read more →Who or what would you stand up for? Who or what inspires you? Has someone helped save something important to you? Share a little. Give hope to someone who may have lost theirs. You may just win 2 passes to see next Saturday, The Lorax Movie! Please visit James’s Project on Facebook and leave [...]
Read more →A little nervous about ths announcement – becuase if I fail, well you will all know. Today is the start of CHD Awareness Week. Heart Defect Awareness Week. James had one of those. I remember how quickly people accepted his death because “he had a heart defect”. James didn’t die from anything he was born [...]
Read more →I came across a discussion board today in which a pregnant mom asked, “I am wondering, have any of you declined the heel stick test? The PKU? And for what reasons?” I am not sure what precipitated this mom to consider not having an established, public health safety test done on her child, but I [...]
Read more →Staying with a sick child is not easy. It means getting people, who normally don’t work together – to want to collaborate. It means being willing to move mountains….or at least to try. It means being ready for a last minute change and disappointment. It means being able to pick up the pieces and fight [...]
Read more →Over the holidays, my eldest daughter shared that she was working on “trending” #firstworldproblems. When in a day could you use that hastag? Coffee machine is busted. Car battery is dead. Cellphone battery needs charging. There are no batteries. Have to replace the windshield on my car. The car alarm woke me up last night. Two boys [...]
Read more →In the past month by the actions of social media present parents (which is like the new “playgroup meeting space” for parents with sick children), at least four different pediatric hospitals’ Facebook walls created some of the biggest non-events in healthcare history so far this year…..and it is only January. It certainly has created new [...]
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