by JKF Foundation | Jan 15, 2019 | JKF In the News
6th Annual Quality and Safety Symposium, 11/15/18 DECEMBER 5, 2018 BY INTERNAL MEDICINE AT IOWA “Facts provide us with knowledge. Stories provide us with wisdom.” Sorrel King, mother of Josie and founder of the Josie King Foundation, shared her story with the...
by JKF Foundation | Dec 12, 2018 | Articles of Interest
On the heels of National Family Caregivers Month in November, which this year carried the theme of “Supercharge Your Caregiving,” here is a way to carry out that charge year-round. And carry it out we must, because health care can no longer ignore these folks. The...
by JKF Foundation | Dec 12, 2018 | Articles of Interest
The Josie King Foundation believes that nurses are leading the charge for a safer, more compassionate health care system. But they realize that in addition to the joys of healing, nurses face many emotional upheavals related to patient suffering, a complex workplace,...
by JKF Foundation | Oct 31, 2018 | Articles of Interest
By Hayley Phelan Oct. 25, 2018 It was my ex-husband who got me journaling again. Our marriage was falling apart, and, on the advice of his friend, he had started to do “morning pages,” a daily journaling practice from the seminal self-help book “The Artist’s Way.”...
by JKF Foundation | Sep 8, 2018 | Articles of Interest
By Tim Cunningham He collapsed at school by his locker, just 11 years old. After 9-1-1 was called, the EMTs arrived and began CPR immediately. He was brought to our emergency department and we did everything we could — IVs, ventilation, sympathomimetic drips — but...
