Post-Retirement What I Read

This has been an interesting five years post retirement (2019). I have continued to renew my license and will do so in 2025. Two more years after that I will reassess. I am an Educator of Basic EKG and I feel it is appropriate to remain officially an RN. Who knows what the future holds? 

Also, I remain very up to date on any advances in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. It was my passion for 40+ years and I continue to educate myself. Of note; I recently attended the "Heart Failure Summit 2024" at UC Davis Medical Center on December 7th of this current year. I stayed the entire day and learned new stuff. It was a great show!

For my usual presentation of this Blog:

I had my customary "Underside" rhyme in mind but I decided to deviate and share with you my common daily reading sources which help me to keep well informed in my areas of medical interest. I know that the many persons finish their careers and just quit with the intellectual demands of that career. That isn't me, because I spent my career attempting to be the best informed. That is what made up for my lack of advanced degrees.

So I still read daily and weekly the following:

Journals I subscribe to (on-line): (All are free)

• American Heart Association Lifelong Learning 

• MDLinx: Journal summaries in Internal Medicine

• MDLinx: Critical Care / Hospitalist Weekly

• Practice Update: Cardiology Daily Digest, This Week in Cardiology

• https://qxmd.com/read-by-qxmd (this is really great)

• Medscape: Nursing 

• Medtronic Academy  (Medtronic.com)

• Pulmonary Hypertension Association News

The above list is what I have been reading for years before I retired.

And continue to do so.

I hope that those of you are who are still in an area of Nursing that you love

That you keep abreast of the changes going on.

And hopefully, you also occasionally

attend in person some kind of symposia that pertains to

your area of interest.

It is well worth it!