Posts tagged with “Nurse Practitoner”

New Orleans Nurse Practitioner, Dr. Scharmaine Lawson-Baker,  Founder and CEO of Advanced Clinical Consultants, is the ideal Nurse Practitioner to profile during 2010 Women’s History Month. She has a rich and full professional lifestyle that is evolving and growing every day. Her medical House Call practice encompasses aspects of city and rural nursing. It may be said there are qualities of Frontier Nursing in her practice. She is a Nurse Practitioners’, Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Lawson-Baker is a Board Certified, Family Nurse Practitioner who has a Doctorate in Nursing Practice.

During our conversation she stressed the importance of networking and collaborative efforts among business owners and members of the nursing profession. This year she started her House Calls Residency Program.

The Residency Program provides the information and tools needed for NPs to incorporate a house call practice into their existing practice or to establish a free-standing practice. In addition to her residency program she has formed Geriatric Initiatives, Inc.,a non-profit agency which brings awareness and assistance to wise elders and the homebound of New Orleans, Louisiana. Read More…

UNICEF 2008 Photo of the year.

The burden of illness wellness after a catastrophic event is all too familiar. There are the aftermaths of 9/11 and hurricanes Katrina and Rita serve as testaments. The lack of health and wellness services extends years beyond the actual event. Jut talk to some veterans and their families.  

Lately, the media has been focusing on the work of my physician colleagues in Haiti. However, as the observant patient knows, it is the professional nurse they see most frequently. Registered Nurses (RN), Nurse Practitioners (NP) and Physician Assistants (PA) are in the field, administering emergency care alone and alongside physician colleagues. There is no “them” or “us”.

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NATIONAL NURSE PRACTITIONER WEEK

NOVEMBER 8-14, 2009

Celebrate  Nurse Practitioners –> 125,000 Solutions to the Primary Care Shortage

 NPs play a vital role in bringing high-quality, cost-effective, comprehensive, patient-centered, personalized primary care to all populations of the United States.

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