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Pat's PBS Special
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Hints for Health: A Nurse's Notebook®
is Pat Carroll's 2004 special for
PBS. This fast-paced, information-packed 90-minute program provides
viewers with authoritative but easy-to-understand health hints that will
help them treat injuries, manage symptoms, and navigate today's
complicated health care system more easily. The show is based on Pat's
latest book, What Nurses Know and Doctors Don't Have Time to Tell You
from Perigee Books (Penguin Group, USA, Inc). She calls on her "more than
20" years of experience to provide this insider's guide to PBS viewers.
Pat's hints and tips are presented three ways:
- Nurse's Notes
are quick tips on a variety of topics viewers can use right away
- Nurse's Wisdom
segments are demonstrations that show viewers how to do things, such as
care for a strain or sprain, apply heat or cold therapy, use
thermometers correctly, administer ear and eye drops, protect that bad
back and more...
- What Nurses Know
teaches viewers about health conditions such as headaches and heartburn;
how to navigate the health care system, and get the most out of medical
tests and prescription medicines; and other important issues, such as
living wills and medication safety
Nothing in the show requires expensive equipment
or takes lots of time to do. In fact, most of Pat's tips can be carried
out with items already in the average home. Do you have celery, a plastic
bag and rubbing alcohol, some honey and crackers, hydrogen peroxide or
vinegar? If so, you'll learn how you can treat heartburn, apply a cold
pack, treat a hangover and make ear drops -- just for starters!
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| Connecticut Public
Television says:
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| With a warm and
engaging style, nurse Pat Carroll helps identify the maladies that so
often confound folks, whether it's cleaning a cut or scrape, or
navigating the cold medicine aisle. Pat's a gem right here in our
backyard. |
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| The Hartford Courant
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| Connecticut nurse
Pat Carroll dispenses all manner of helpful medical information as if
she were a kind of Heloise on health. |
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| The Record Journal
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| In her fast-paced and lively
program... Carroll mixes practical how-to advice with special tips. The
program is set up very much like a cooking demonstration, except that
instead of recipes, [she] is dealing with bandages. |
Viewers are also treated to a quiz of
myths and facts. Can you tell which of these are myths...or facts?
- You should feed a cold and starve a
fever
- Poison ivy rash is spread by the
fluid that leaks from the rash
- Canker sores are very contagious
- The best way to treat a fever is
with an alcohol bath
You will have the answers to these and
much more when you watch Hints for Health: A Nurse's Notebook®
Thank you to these PBS Stations airing Hints for Health: A Nurse's
Notebook®
If your area is not listed, check back for air dates
during December pledge
While we do our best to keep up-to-date, last-minute
changes may be made to programming schedules. Check your local listings.
Please support your public television station!
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