Summary: The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network (http://promednetwork.com/). Nurse practitioners versus family physicians, filling the gap in primary care, why you need a flu shot, and we'll take a look at whooping cough this week on the Nursing Show's Tip of the Week. If that's what you're looking for, you found it. It's the Nursing Show. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3 Audio Version (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-show-online-radio/id271728764#) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (zune://subscribe/?Nursing%20Show=http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/podcast/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/podcast/) —- Subscribe to the Podcast Studio Video Version (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=386460885#) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (zune://subscribe/?Nursing%20Show=http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/studio_video/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://www.nursingshow.com/feed/studio_video/) — Welcome to the Show Good day and welcome to this week's episode of the Nursing Show. I'm your host Jamie Davis and I'd like to welcome all of you to the program this week. We have a lot of great stuff coming up for you in this week's episode including some great nurse related news items. (http://www.nursingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sick-infant-300x199.png)Following the news we're going to get into our tip of the week, but I do want to remind you first to head over to NursingShow.com (http://nursingshow.com). You'll find all of the initial information for this episode in the shownotes link at the top of the page. You'll find links to all the news items, links to additional resources for the tip of the week and more so you can go more in depth on the topics that I've covered briefly in 10 minutes on the show. If you want to get back in touch with me you can reach me here by sending an e-mail in to NursingShow@Gmail.com (mailto:nursingshow@gmail.com). I look forward to hearing from each of you and I do respond to every one of those e-mails that come in so keep them coming. It's great to hear from you and I love getting suggestions, comments, and everything else. There will be some more contact information later on in this episode. News— Nurse Practitioners vs. Family Physicians (http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Practice+Management/Nurse-practitioner-role-debated-by-AAFP-AANP/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/789891?contextCategoryId=40158) Nurse Practitioners Idaho Bound (http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/24/2286206/physician-assistants-nurse-practitioners.html) TV Nurses Encourage Flu Shots (http://fox13now.com/2012/09/25/nurse-talks-about-importance-of-flu-shot/) ———————————– Tip This Week – Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Reviewed Time now for this week's tip of the week and we're going to get in and look at whooping cough. There's been a lot of news items recently about the surge in whooping cough cases this year, 2012. So I thought we would look at the whooping cough. We haven't covered it in the past and it's one of those diseases that we may not know a whole lot about. Once upon a time it was very prevalent as a common childhood illness with high mortality rates and very severe disease effects until a vaccine was developed for it in the 1940s. We're going to go ahead and talk about whooping cough here on the Nursing Show tip of the week. Tip Links CDC on Whooping Cough (http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/index.html) CDC 2012 Whooping Cough Cases (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6128a1.htm) PKIDs on Whooping Cough (http://www.pkids.org/diseases/pertussis.html) Mayo Clinic on Whooping Cough (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/whooping-cough/DS00445) —- If you have any questions,
