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Theresa Rapstine, BSN, RN,is the director of the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute at The Children’s Hospital.

Laughing with Elizabeth...Commentary by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal, RN, PCCN

FirstChoice Owner and Administrator Lon Sears fosters a compassionate atmosphere with high expectations.

Robin Ross, RN, earned her BSN from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in May.

For the eighth consecutive year, nurses have been voted the most trusted profession in America according to Gallup’s annual survey of professions for their honesty and ethical standards.

A researcher at University of Colorado Denver’s School of Pharmacy has been named as one of three recipients of a $50,000, 2010 Innovator award from Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE).

Denver Health’s Center for Complex Fractures and Limb Restoration (Cfx) has been selected as one of only 12 clinical centers in the U.S. to participate in a newly established Extremity Trauma Clinical Research Consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

The old saying “never say never” takes on a profound reality when applied to hospital events that are never supposed to happen but, in reality, often do.

In a new study to assess patient awareness of medications prescribed during a hospital visit, 44% of patients believed they were receiving a medication they were not, and 96% were unable to recall the name of at least one medication that they had been prescribed.