Summary: The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network (http://promednetwork.com/). Temporary nurses save lives, a big, bad flu season, and nurse practitioners make house calls, plus we'll take a look at ulcerative colitis in a review for nurses. 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 (http://www.nursingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hamburguer_sm.jpg)Well 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 this week's program. We have a good show coming up for you this week including an article on the CDC's prediction for this year's flu season. In our Tip of the Week we'll continue our series on inflammatory bowel disorder with a look at ulcerative colitis in this weeks episode. That will be coming up following this week's news. Before that, I want to remind you to follow up on all of the information you find here on the Nursing Show. You can do that by heading over to NursingShow.com (http://nursingshow.com). You'll find a link at the top of the page there for shownotes. You can click that link and it will take you right to the most recent episode. Scroll down and find all the previous episodes. Please follow-up on links for the news items in an episode as well as all of the additional resource links I provide for the weekly tips of the week or perhaps an interview segment. You'll find all of that over at NursingShow.com. If you want to get back in touch with me, I hope you do so. Send those e-mails in to NursingShow@Gmail.com (mailto:nursingshow@gmail.com). I love to hear from you and I really welcome you sending those e-mails. Send me links to news items you'd like me to cover. Perhaps you'd like me to reach out and do an interview with you or somebody you know. Whatever the case may be, keep those e-mails coming. It's an integral part of what makes you a member of the Nursing Show community and lets me know that you like something about the show or you want to hear more of something. I will have more contact information coming up later on in this episode but I guess we'll go ahead and get on to the rest of the show as we get ready for this week's news. News— Travel Nurses to the Rescue (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121206131555.htm) Flu Season Here and Ready to Rock and Roll (http://news.nurse.com/article/20121203/NATIONAL02/112100021) Nurse Practitioners Making More House Calls (http://news.nurse.com/article/20121126/NATIONAL01/311260013) ———————————– Tip of the Week - Ulcerative Colitis Review for Nurses Time for this week's tip of the week as we continue our series on inflammatory bowel disease with a look at Ulcerative Colitis. Last week I looked at Crohn's disease to kick off the two part series. So let's get into this week's segment on Ulcerative Colitis coming right up. NIH National Library of Medicine on Crohn's (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/crohnsdisease.html) National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases on Crohn's
