The Peoria Woman - May 2008

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
Golda Ewalt, MS, RD, LD, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s Director of Dietetic Internship Program, is responsible for managing the 10 dietetic interns OSF Saint Francis employs each year. She coordinates their education and experience while working in various areas of the hospital, including clinical, counseling, wellness, food service and community.
Features

Reaching Out

Teens Give Hope to Children of Parents with Cancer
by Sara Browning

Perhaps more deeply than any loved one, a child can identify with a parent’s suffering following a cancer diagnosis.

A Plan to Affect Our Nation’s Shortage of Nurses

by Kathleen Baldwin, PhD, RN
University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing
As the population ages and chronic diseases become more prevalent in Illinois and across the nation, the shortage of nurses is expected to become more acute in the future.
Career
Lifestyle

Internet Gaming: It’s Not All Fun and Games

by Libby Smith, CADC
Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery
If the adolescent or young adult confines his/her experimentation and use of developing skills only to the cyberworld, he/she isolates him/herself from human contact and truly learning the skills necessary to thrive in the real world.

Senior Moments

by Bugs
I have said that I feel guilty because I think I like the grandkids better than I did their parents.
Health

Arthritis—Mystery and Myth

by Jeffrey F. Traina, MD
Advanced Orthopedics
Arthritis is a progressive disease, meaning the disease itself has the tendency to worsen over time. But that rate of progression varies greatly among individuals.
Finance