My Work 

 This is a limited sample of the work I do for clients and for myself:

Spring 2009: Clinical image research and art development for on-line nursing textbooks, including Emergency

                      Nursing (Elsevier)

March 2009: Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications

                      Third author (“with Special Consideration” – involved researching and writing the exercises available on                       the book’s accompanying DVD)

                      Van Leeuwen, Anne M., Poelhuis-Leth, Debra J.

                      Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c2009. 3rd ed.

                      9780803618268, 0803618263

Since November 2008: Contributing write at EverydayHealth.com

Summer 2008: Assisted with writing the Emergency Medical Responder manual for the publisher of the      American Red Cross. Was responsible for writing several chapters within guidelines provided by the publisher.

          2008: Hired to write quarterly newsletters for a major worldwide drug study and rehired for 2009.

Blogs (click on the thumbnails):

Two cooperative blogging networks that I co-founded along with my partner, Gayla Baer:

Non - health related

Health-related

Health blog, Healthbolt, and Men's Health blog: BlissTree.com

Sprigley.com: providing content

NurseTogether.com: 

• Fun and Easy Weekends Activities for the Whole Family
• Dealing With Dying Loved Ones
• Nursing Conferences: A Good Balance of Learning and Fun
• 12 Ways for Nurses to Stretch their Vacation Budget
• A Look Into Palliative Care 
• New Job: Tips for a Smooth Transition
• Using Acupuncture to Treat Fibromyalgia
• Doctor Trouble - 5 Tips for Working With a Difficult Physician

MDNGLive.com

• Who Needs Microchipping When We've Got Google Health?
• Are Online Courses on Par with Classroom Courses?
• One Hand Washes the Other

The Blanket Maker, Quilting among the Natives,  in The Quilter magazine, May 2008

Article on CBC.ca:

Palliative care - Raising awareness key to improving access

Read an interview with me on K.C's Write For You, about Oscar's Diaries, Life as a Retired Greyhound.

Medbroadcast.com

Information on HPV For Mothers and a separate section For Young Women

Health Behavior News Service

• Childhood Cancer Survivors Catch Up in School, Work as Young Adults
• Asthma Education in the ER Could Help Patients Avoid Repeat Hospital Stays
• Girls Born with HIV Infection at Higher Risk for Cervical Problems 
• Counseling, Coping Skills Could Reduce Arthritis Disability
• Older Cancer Survivors Pull Their Weight in Workplace, Study Finds

MediResource™ Advisory Board for Yahoo!® Canada Lifestyle

MyFox News Channel until the end of July 2007.

These daily health tips are being used on-air during various local news broadcasts, as well as appearing on the News Network websites.

Parkhurst Exchange

Contributing Editor:

April 2007: Round Table: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, pages 112-113.

June 2007: Journal Club, pages 82-87.

July 2007: Round Table: Dealing with Disaster, pages 80-83,

EOrthopod.com

• No Consensus So Far on Best Way to Prevent Disability Following Back Injury
• Attachment Behaviors and Health
• Facet Joint Pain and Chronic Low Back Pain After Surgery
• Does Chronic Back Pain Respond Better to Surgery or Conservative Management?
• Can Back Pain Prevention Programs Reduce Economic Losses From Lower Back Pain Injuries?
• Professional Athlete Retirement and Depression

Family Doctor 2005 Your Essential Guide to Health and Wellbeing 

• Basic Solutions for Little Scrapes 
• Breast Milk: Nature's Fast Food

Also in that publication but not available on-line:

• Baby’s Home! 

The Canadian Nurse 

abstract available on PubMed:

• The Cyber-Savvy Advantage 

The Doctor’s Guide to the Internet 

• Ribavirin May Be Treatment of Choice for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, For Now  

Parcours

La sexualité retrouvée 

• C’est peut-être le dernier de vos soucis, mais les relations sexuelles aident à se sentir de nouveau entière 

This is a Parkhurst Publishing translation of an article that I wrote:

In Stride, Fall 2001 

• Reconnecting With Your Sexuality 

No longer available on the Web:

Key Strokes Writers’ Newsletter 

• A Prescription for Health Articles 

Me First, Issue No. 7 

• The Private Life of the Pill