Kentucky

mind. These places are of course filled with beauty unmatched by any in the United States. However, one place rivals these two like no other; that would be Pall Mall in Northern Fentress County. Pall Mall is situated in the Wolf River Valley on the Kentucky-Tennessee Border. Pall Mall is town of just over a thousand people and embodies Southern small-town living to the best extent of any town in East Tennessee. This small-town atmosphere is what makes Pall Mall the most beautiful small town in…

trails such as the elite series or the FLW tour. They go all the way from the East coast to the West coast. They get to fish some of the best Lakes in the country such as Toledo Bend in Texas, Lake Okeechobee in Florida, or even Kentucky Lake which is in Tennessee and Kentucky! It’s one thing if fishermen fish one spot or one lake their whole life. That’s where they always go but these professionals get to be somewhere different every single week. Not to mention the fact, that they are…

and will both be forever remembered as great leaders in many respects, which is a remarkable feat that not many have or will achieve. These characters could not be so different, yet similar that I had to compare the two. A small town boy born in Kentucky and raised in Indiana being compared to a boy born into a senatorial status,…

have been setting up Poke Stops to lure customers. Poke Stops are places where gamers can snatch Pokemon balls. Pokemon balls help advance the gamer, so they are important. According to the director of sales operations at Sprint, a Sprint store in Kentucky, announced that their store was a Poke Stop. After this, people of all ages came to the store catch Pokemon and purchase accessories.…

What if, instead of going to the doctor, you received a visit from a nurse – on horseback? That’s how the nurses of the Frontier Nursing Service travelled to see their patients. The patients lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A hundred years ago, these communities were far from towns and hospitals. No one had a car, and railroad stations were miles away. When people got sick or had new babies, no doctor was close enough to help. A nurse named Mary Breckinridge had been to Scotland,…

A topic that has been highly politicized around a lightning rod of a name is what to do about Obamacare. To illustrate this point, if we call it the Affordable Care Act, approval rates increase and if we use the name KyNect in Kentucky it increases even more. In a Kaiser Health monthly poll (see Note to Reader comment below) from November, 74% of Americans and half of Republicans want the ACA to continue. But, if you dig deeper, the Republican voters heavily favor almost all features of the ACA…

My own cultural competency is built on a lifetime of experiences. I grew up in Appalachia Kentucky. As an elementary student, we moved to the rural area of Harrison, Ohio where I was exposed for the first time to a culture that was foreign to the way I had been raised. As I entered the working environment, I found myself a female working through the “glass ceiling.” In addition, I have lived in various states, so I was introduced to cultures different from my own. I was encouraged to…

Lincoln’s plan at the outset of the Civil War was to capture southern territory. He was not an abolitionist and endorsed colonization as a solution to slavery. He found himself the focus of pressure from anti-slavery advocates imploring him to comprehend that slavery was the economic and social foundation of the South. They felt emancipation was required in order to weaken the South and that abolition must become a war aim. By 1862, Lincoln determined that emancipation had become a military and…

The Gatton Academy is a residential public high school for students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math located at Western Kentucky University. Academy students complete their last two years of high school, while also beginning their undergraduate studies. As Gatton students, we are afforded many opportunities not available to typical high school students. First, all Academy students live together in a newly renovated residence hall on WKU’s campus. Secondly, all Gatton…

There are four primary vital signs: body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate. In 1995, American Pain Society supported a campaign to consider pain the “5th Vital Sign.” The Joint Commission’s Standards on Pain Management were released in 2000, and although they never explicitly recommended opioid prescribing, they did include recognition of the right of patients to appropriate assessment and management of pain. To titrate the pain either acute or chronic, the…