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Hank, the owner of Nurse411.com with the incoming (his left) and outgoing (his right) presidents of AACN taken at the presidential reception at NTI 2005 in New Orleans.
Critical Care Nurses can do the conga!
The theme of NTI was Mardi Gras (since we were in New Orleans).  This critical care nurse told her boss she was sick all week and needed to hide behind the mask!
I know critical care nurses need to be able to balance several things at once, but this is ridiculous!
Wayne Brady doing his world renowned version of the Critical Care Rap at NTI 2005
Oh yeah, there were a few classes offered at NTI 2005 also, apparently it was not supposed to be ALL fun and games.

Somebody Said It...

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

Karl Menninger

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Knowledge is Power, Inc.

Founded by me, Henry (Hank) Geiter, Jr, RN, CCRN, in 2001, the mission of this company is to give nurses everywhere the opportunity to acquire skill and knowledge at their own pace in a non-threatening environment and for minimal or NO cost.

Although I have been a nurse since 1992 and helping to educate nurses since 1994, I only obtained Florida Board of Nursing Continuing Education provider approval in late 2003. I then began development of the online version of his courses which became available in December 2003.

Although there are a great many companies that provide nurses with continuing education opportunities, I felt we needed one more. You see, some offer free courses, some offer courses on esoteric topics, and some charge an exorbitant fee per hour of credit (some as high as $8.00 per hour of credit or more!). This site is different. We think education is a right of all nurses and cost is a factor that can inhibit learning.  We paid dearly for our initial education and now companies are bilking us for education. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars a year on interesting topics, you can learn for FREE! Some courses will have a small cost to help support the site, and the nursing adjuncts we have developed will, of course, have a modest fee attached, but the goal is education first, making money second. In addition I, and the other authors that you will see on this site don't write to impress, we write to express!  Knowledge becomes most powerful when it is explained so others can understand it!  We pride ourselves on using simple language and very little technical mumbo-jumbo to truly demystifies medicine.

In addition, I was tired of having forty different pages bookmarked and searching through his favorites on his browser; I wanted one place that nurses could go to get pertinent timely information.  Whether it was web sites for locating additional free resources, conferences, corporate web sites, or even links to other continuing education locations, both free and fee based, our company goal is to allow nurses to find all the opportunities that best fit their needs.

I love research and writing. Writing, to me, is a passion - whether short stories, technical articles, or books. Although it wasn't until recently that I decided to share his writing with others, once I started writing I had trouble stopping...

I have written articles for nursing journals such as RN, Nursing2004, Vital Signs, and DCCN, and also write continuing education articles for my co-workers at Sunstar-Paramedics Plus. However, some of the continuing education articles are either "too long", "too detailed", or "not right for our audience" when submitted to the journals. Instead of limiting them to people I know and work with, I decided to make them available to everyone!

Others have written educational programs for Critical Care Transport Program where I work and they graciously allowed me to post them here for your perusal.

Enjoy...

Hank's Other Writings

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Hank's available articles

These articles are old enough to be archived and freely available. That usually means they were published more than two years ago.  As more current articles become available, their links will be posted. E-mail me and let me know what you think of the articles, I am very curious!

The Nursing Internet

The ABC's of the CBC

The Spiritual Side of Nursing

Mechanical Ventilation

Shock Syndromes

Why I Chose Critical Care

This RN's Hunch Pays Off

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

Understanding Axis Deviation

Recent articles

05/03 - "Giving Back to Nursing" appears in Choices Supplement of Nursing2003.

11/03 - "Identifying Wolff-Parkinson-White and Pre-excitation Syndromes" appears in Nursing2003.

12/03 - “Treating Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome” appears in Nursing2003

03/04 - "Mrs. Jenkins wanted to die at home" appears in Nursing2004.

06/04 - "Wellen's Syndrome" appears in Nursing2004.

10/04 - “Critical Care: Getting back to basics with permanent pacemakers, part I”, Nursing2004

11/04 - “Critical Care: Getting back to basics with permanent pacemakers, part II”, Nursing2004

11/05 - “Teaching an Old Nurse New Tricks” in press Nurisng2005

01/06 - “Contrast Induced Pulmonary Edema” in press Nursing2006

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Hank's Speaking Engagements

Nurse411.com Seminars
     CCRN - Review
     November 16th and 19th, 2007
     Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL

CCRN Review Question Answer Key


AACN NTI
     MImics: It Looks Like an MI, and Acts Like One, but is it?, Mentor/Presenter with Roger Fisher
     The ABCs and Ds of the CBC: Indices, Differentials and Diagnoses - Presenter, Co-presenter - Charlie Edwards
     The ABCs and Ds of the CBC: Indices, Differentials and Diagnoses - Presenter, Co-presenter - Charlie Edwards
     AVRT vs AVNRT - Mentor/Co-presenter with Charlie Edwards
     The ABC's of the CBC -- Available via AACN Home Theater Program

Med-Ed Seminars
November 16 & 17, 2005 - Easley, SC
     CCRN Review
October 30 & November 1, 2005 - Spartanburg, SC
     Critical Care Nuts & Bolts
October 10 & 11, 2005 - Marquette, MI
     Critical Care Nuts& Bolts

Trends in Cardiovascular Nursing Conference
     Building a Better Preceptor;
     Advanced Topics in Pacemakers
     Differentiating Anemias using the CBC


If you would like information about having Hank speak at your facility or conference, please click here.