DID YOU KNOW… The majority of Life Care Planners are nurses in independent practice. Nurses typically choose nurse life care planning as a career enhancement. Nurse Life Care Planners earn an average of $150/hour. Studies show several Nurse Life Care Planners will retire within the next 5-10 years, which leaves the door wide open for opportunities…Are you ready?
FIG is a nationally recognized educational provider and announces the launching of Nurse Life Care Planning – Through the Ages, an educational course for nurses with an interest in life care planning. This …

The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. The human response includes the response of the individual and family to actual or potential health problems. ANA notes “… Nurses are educated to be attuned to the whole person, not just the unique presenting health problem. While a medical diagnosis of an illness may be …

Workplace injuries happen.  Some such accidents involve debilitating injuries that include amputation of a hand, arm, finger, foot, leg or toe.  In fact, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, as many as 10,000 American workers are victims of amputation injury at work.  These workers represent 6.5 percent of all US amputations in a given year.
Some of these injuries may be due to equipment malfunctions or malfunction or bypass of safety features.  Others result from inattention.  Regardless of the cause, amputation injury is life changing.  The more catastrophic …

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A Virginia man has filed a lawsuit against the local Massanutten Ski Resort after he suffered spinal injuries during a snow-tubing accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. John Carwile was making a run on the snow-tube track at the resort when the accident happened. He passed through the end of the run, which was supposed to slow the tube down, and crashed head first into a wall. The lawsuit claims the resort was negligent …