If you’ve not had the need to visit or be admitted to a hospital in the last three years, the information in this issue of The Flame may surprise you. Regardless, I hope it disturbs you and urges you to action. Recently, a new survey about increasing violence against...
Happy New Year!!! I’m not sure if it is a good sign or a bad sign that the first time I heard about “Dry January” was one week ago! Apparently, Dry January began in 2012 as an initiative by Alcohol Change UK, a British non-profit, to ‘ditch the...
For many years as a young adult, I greeted the winter holiday season with trepidation. It took many years to figure out that I was the one in charge of managing my ‘holiday’ stress. But then again, I have never been hospitalized during Christmas. That...
November brings the holiday of Thanksgiving and with it, reminders for us all to give thanks for the blessings in our lives, however small. Besides my friends, family, good health and chocolate chip cookies, I am most grateful for my nursing colleagues at Guardian...
I think we can all agree on two things: Social media is a big part of kid’s lives (as well as adults). Back in 2018, the Pew Research Center found that 97% of nearly 750 teenagers used a social media platform. I would dare to say that in 2023, if a child has a...
Only in Philadelphia could a major road re-opening be celebrated by all of the pro teams’ mascots riding on a firetruck, but I bet ALL of us were cheering for the fantastic work that our building trades’ union members did 24/7 on reopening Interstate 95....
