by RNSAdmin | Nov 13, 2018 | Education
Recently, I had a casual conversation with some nurse practitioner friends about an older adolescent I saw in clinic, and how my gut told me not to put her on methotrexate (MTX) because I wasn’t sure I believed her when she told me that she was not sexually...
by RNSAdmin | Nov 8, 2018 | Education, Rheumatoid Arthritis
I was diagnosed with my first chronic illness at age 5, so I’ve taken medication daily for basically as long as I can remember. As a result, I didn’t have any trouble accepting that treatment would be necessary when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at...
by RNSAdmin | Nov 1, 2018 | Education, Rheumatoid Arthritis
In October 2017, I met JP, a 66-year-old female patient, for the first time. During our initial meeting, JP reported that she had been recently seen by a new primary care doctor who then referred her to my rheumatology clinic thinking she had rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
by RNSAdmin | Oct 25, 2018 | Education
Remember those “x-ray specs” they used to sell in the back of comic books? You’d send in your entire allowance, and in just 6-8 weeks, your x-ray specs would arrive in the mail, instantly allowing you to be able to see through walls, clothing, you...
by RNSAdmin | Oct 18, 2018 | Education, Pediatrics
As an adult rheumatology nurse with nearly 15 years in the field, I have a certain comfort level when educating patients who have been newly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I get a lot of the same questions over and over—“Will I be deformed?” or “Will I end...
