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CPP Associates

3100 N. Sheridan Rd

Suite 9C

Chicago IL 60657 USA

bbancr9271@aol.com

 

Thank you Barb. The Carefree conference was terrific due to your good medicine "laughter," which I tried to share with the staff I manage but the delivery was not the same as you. You are dynamic, engage the audience and the laughter lasts much longer than the 2 hour presentation. Thank you so much. I can not wait to share the DVD's with the staff!  Be well. Be safe ,  and continue to share the laughter, it is a gift.
Kelly Redding RN, BSN
St . Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

 

I truly enjoyed your workshop…I hope that in my 42 years, I have touched my patients with as much humor as you have given me. Good job! Well done! LB, Edmonton AB

 

Thank you so much for coming to give the keynote address at last week's AACN Midwest Conference. I signed up and attended the conference because as our unit's educator, I knew it was the right thing to do. I have so many piles on my desk, that I wasn't sure how I actually had time to do it, but I knew I had to be a good example. Your presentation was my present to myself for doing the right thing and going. I do not recall the last time I laughed that hard and learned so much at the same time. You helped me renew my spirit and drive in this wonderful career. Thank you for doing what you obviously do so well.
Amy Rowe BSN, RN, CCRN
Clinical Educator, Cardiac-Neuro ICU and Adult Central Resource Team
Edward Hospital and Health Services

 

Never have I attended a seminar that I didn't want to be over, and I must say you are amazing. I was so into your lecture and learned so much information I want to go back and reteach some of the things I forgot. Thank you so very much for sharing the way you do with all of us educators, and I sure wish my professors in my MSN program would teach like that, lol. I must admit I'm almost done and it won't come too soon for me. Thank you, thank you thank you!!!!!!! Hope to be able to see you again. Debbie Wax BSN,RN, Nursing Instructor, East Central College

 

I just wanted to Thank You on behalf of myself as well as MHSTE! I am still laughing when I think about your presentations. I laughed until I cried actually during the presentations. As I am sure you already know, the evaluations were fabulous! Most of them said they want to see and hear you again next year. You might want to think about penciling in MHSTE (MHSE) Conference for next July. One of the best presentations I think I have ever heard. Thanks again! Barb Houk

 

 

"It’s been such a privilege and a pleasure to teach all of you over the past 40 years."

Hi everyone!!

Can you believe it? It’s been over 50 years of the most exciting, entertaining, and satisfying job that I could ever have imagined. With over 3,000 seminars provided to thousands of nursing professionals, students, and anyone else who was brave enough listen, it’s time to close up the podium, dust off the golf clubs, open a 487-page mystery novel, take my Shih-poo out for an hour of Frisbee and long walks, and enter the whole new world of retirement. Of course, while I will keep up with everything new and exciting in the Nursing and Medical literature, I just won’t be gallivanting all over the United States and Canada, traipsing through airports, schlepping bags and boxes from one city to another, and checking into hotels at whatever o’clock in the morning.

I can’t thank all of you enough for your continued backing of my presentations, your laughter, your questions, your comments, your purchases of my books, DVDs, and CDs, your cards, letters, funny jokes, and never-ending support of “all things Barb”. It’s been such a privilege and a pleasure to teach all of you over the past 40 years.

 Check back on my website on occasion…I might be doing a blog, I am certainly going to write at least ONE more book, I could consider a podcast, who knows, a keynote speech may be in my future? Drop me an email whenever you get the urge. Questions, comments, observations, a fun story, case studies will all be welcome…and of course, I will get back to you in a timely fashion.  For now, though, I will take a deep breath and enjoy R & R with my phenomenal friends and family.

Wishing all of you the best possible years ahead…stay healthy, stay happy, and stay focused on the things you love the most.

Thank you again,

Barb

Bbancr9271@aol.com

barbbanc@gmail.com

312-543-7688 (please text as I don’t answer calls if I don’t recognize the number)

 

Barb Bancroft, RN, MSN, NP, has provided more than 3000 continuing education events on clinical topics pertaining to  pathophysiology, physical assessment, and pharmacology to health care professionals throughout the United States and Canada. She has been the motivational keynote speaker on health maintenance topics for numerous nursing associations, medical associations and dental associations as well as for corporate groups and events.

 

She has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, the University of Arkansas, Loyola University of Chicago, and St. Xavier University of Chicago. She has provided courses on Advanced Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Physical Assessment to graduate and undergraduate students.

 

Barb Bancroft is the author of nine books: Medical Minutiae (1999), An Apple a Day: The ABCs of Diet and Disease (2002), Live a Little, Laugh a Lot (2004), Kiss My Asparagus (2012), Geriatric Gems (2018), Focus on Pharmacology (2019), Plants or Pills? (2019, Laughing My Aspirin Off (2019) and her latest release — A Bacteria, a Virus and a Parasite Walk Into a Bar (2023). 

 

Barb is a fascinating, highly informative speaker whose dynamic and humorous presentation style makes learning enjoyable. She provides a wealth of clinical information that can be applied to everyday practice.  

 

 

Check out Barb's Newest Book...

 

A Bacteria, a Virus and a

Parasite Walk Into a Bar

 

This is NOT your “run-of-the-mill Lab Test book.” Of course, it’s not—it’s written by the “not your run-of-the-mill” nursing educator, Barb Bancroft. What is the best way to describe this book? It’s “lab-a-palooza” of a tome, with full explanations of every day lab tests, interspersed with clinical quips, timely tips, case studies, pharmacology pearls, historical highlights, practical pointers, and peppered with a few giggles and laughs along the way. Barb blends physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment pearls seamlessly throughout each of the 12 chapters. The first chapter, named after the title of the book, A Bacteria, a Virus, and a Parasite Walk Into a Bar… discusses the lab tests used to diagnose infections with a thorough explanation of the WBC and differential. The second chapter covers RBCs and a thorough review of the myriad of anemias. Bloody Hell is Chapter 3 – all about the tests used for clotting and bleeding. Other chapters include Read My Lipids, A Touch of the Sugar, Liver Logic, To Pee or Not to Pee, Breath, Sweat, and TearSSSSSS, The Land of the Gland—Thyroid, that is, Enzymes Galore and So Much More, and a few more on Electrolytes and Tumor Markers. Piqued your interest? It's educational, entertaining, and enlightening...what more could you want in a book on Lab Tests? Piqued your interest? It's educational, entertaining, and enlightening...what more could you want in a book on Lab Tests? 

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From an attendee of the November 2016 Maui Nursing Conference:

Thank you for the outstanding conference!  Ms. Bancroft is brilliant, current & up-to-date with her practice & lectures.  She was informative and had me laughing so much because of her practical sense of humor.  I have been a nurse for 33 years and I practice in critical care,  I find myself learning so much from her lectures!

I love the Marriot Wailea Beach Resort! Thank you for the hotel special group rate!  The lunch and dessert were outstanding!

 Susan Chan

 

 

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