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Note: Some of these articles are available online by clicking on the journal's home page below

Carroll P: Mobile chest drainage: coming soon to a home near you. Home Healthcare Nurse 2002;20(7):434-441.
Carroll P: Practice pearls -- preventive maintenance for crutch handles. Postgraduate Medicine 2002;111(6):4.
Carroll P: The heat is on: protecting your patients from nature's silent killer. Home Healthcare Nurse 2002;20(6):376-385.
Carroll P: A guide to mobile chest drains. RN 2002;65(5):56-60,65.
Carroll P: Dually credentialed RCPs: Traitors or expanding patient care opportunities? [guest editorial] RT: The journal for respiratory care practitioners 2002;16(2):10,66
Carroll P: Anaphylaxis. RN 2001;64(12):45-49.
Carroll P: You are the key to creating smoking cessation success stories! AARCTimes 2001;25(9):108-110,112,114.
Carroll P: Writing for the web: different style considerations. Nurse Author & Editor 2001;12(1):4,7-8.
Carroll P: What have you done about the nursing shortage? [Guest Commentary] Home Healthcare Nurse 2001;19(8):520.
Carroll P: How to intervene before asthma turns deadly. RN 2001;64(5): 52-58.
Evans T, Carroll P: Rapid sequence intubation. American Journal of Nursing 2001; supplement, May
      WINNER! Wyeth-Ayerst AACN Fellows Program
Carroll P: Reducing the risk of needlestick injury associated with implanted ports. Home Healthcare Nurse 2001;19(2):84-94. (updated reprint)
Carroll P: Exploring chest drain options. RN 2000;63(10):50-54.
Krauss B, Carroll P: Procedural sedation and analgesia: an evolving role for RCPs. RT: The journal for respiratory care practitioners 2000;13(4):31-32,34,35,38.
Carroll P: Physicians group releases DVT guidelines (sidebar). Home Healthcare Nurse 2000; 18(7):461.
Carroll P: A new way to monitor paralyzing drugs.  RN 2000;63(5):62-64,66,68.
Carroll P: Should suctioning be left to the nurse?  American Journal of Critical Care 2000;9(2):85-86.
Carroll P: To be a nurse. International Journal of Trauma Nursing 2000;6(1):35-36.
Carroll P: Treating deep venous thrombosis at home with low molecular weight heparin.      Home Healthcare Nurse 2000;Supplement 1 (January):3-13.
WINNER! Award of Excellence, New England Chapter, American Medical                Writers Association, 2002
Carroll P: Getting heard: writing opinion pieces for the newspaper [reprint]. Creative Nursing 1999;5(4):9-11
Carroll P: Monitoring the gut to prevent MODS. RN 1999;62(10):34-37.
Carroll P: Latex allergy: what you need to know. RN 1999;62(9):40-45.
Carroll P: Saline and suction. Singapore Nursing Journal 1999;26(3):17.
Carroll P: Getting heard: Writing opinion pieces for the newspaper. Nurse Author and Editor 1999;9(3):4,7-8.
Carroll P: Evolutions / Revolutions: Respiratory monitoring. RN 1999;62(5):68-74, 77.
Carroll P: Developing educational programs: Its easy as A PIE. Subacute Care Today 1999;2(2):44-49, 54.
Carroll P: Trauma! Chest Injuries. RN 1999;62(1):36-40, 42.
Carroll P: Using non-credentialed assistive personnel; clinical and management perspectives. Subacute Care Today 1998;1(5):24-28.
Carroll P: Preventing nosocomial pneumonia. RN 1998;61(5):22-26.
Carroll P: Closing in on safer suctioning. RN 1998;61(5):22-26.
Carroll P: Reducing the risk of needlestick injury associated with implanted ports. Home Healthcare Nurse 1998;16(4):225-235.
WINNER! Award of Excellence, New England Chapter, American Medical Writers Association, 2000
Carroll P: The Surgical Nurse's Managed Care Manual. TLC Medical Publishing. Boston, MA 1998.  
WINNER! AJN Book of the Year Award, 1998
WINNER! Award of Excellence, New England Chapter, American Medical Writers Association, 2000

Carroll P: Medications and pregnancy: how to tell what's safe and what's not. 2001. HealthGate Data Corporation for online Web-zine publication on subscribers' sites
Carroll P: Fast breaks...and sprains [preventing basketball injuries]. Military Times 2001;61(40):34. (Gannett Newspapers: Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, Marine Times)
Carroll P: Cold or allergy?  The nose knows.  Military Times 2001;50(26):33-34. (Gannett Newspapers: Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, Marine Times)
Carroll P: Just click your mouse and call me in the morning [on-line pharmacies]. Health & Money 1999; 7(6):62-63, 46, 48.
  For a text version of this article click here.
Carroll P: Coping with childhood depression. Health & Money 1999;7(4):6, 8-10, 19.
  For a text version of this article click here.
Carroll P: Achoo! It's allergy season. Health & Money 1999;7(2):32-35, 46.
Carroll P: Antibiotic addicts: are you one? Health & Money 1999;7(1):8-9, 16-19.
Columnist, Health, Money & Travel: Health Matters 1998-1999
Carroll P: A penny of prevention saves a dollar of cure. World and I 1998; April: 302-313.

Current
Former (all have ceased publication)
ADvancing Clinical Care
CV Nurse
Associate Editor, Lippincott Health Promotion Letter

Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication  New England Chapter, American Medical Writers Association, 2002 2002
Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication (2 Awards)  New England Chapter, American Medical Writers Association, 2000 2000
AJN Book of the Year Surgical Nurse's Managed Care Manual 1998
New England Chapter, AMWA, Will Solimene Award of Excellence, 1995 1996
Nan Hilt Writers Award, Honorable Mention, Orthopaedic Nursing 1994
Best Teaching Techniques Article, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing 1992
Second Place, RT Advance Writing Contest 1988
Honorable Mention, RN Magazine Writing Contest 1985
EDPRESS Distinguished Achievement Award 1983

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Advancing Clinical Care
American Journal of Critical Care
Computers in Nursing
Creative Nursing
Critical Care Choices
Critical Care Monitor
Critical Care Nurse
CV Nurse
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
Focus on Critical Care
Healthcare Trends and Transitions
HealthGate Data Corporation
Home Healthcare Nurse
Hospital Material Management Quarterly
Imprint
International Journal of Trauma Nursing
Journal of Nursing Staff Development (now Journal for Nurses in Staff Development)
Lippincott Health Promotion Letter
Military Times: Air Force Times, Navy Times, Army Times, Marine Times (Gannett Newspapers)
Neonatal Network
Nurse Author & Editor
Nursing
Nursing Life
Orthopaedic Nursing
Pediatric Nursing
Postgraduate Medicine
RN Magazine
RT Magazine: The Journal for Respiratory Care Practitioners
RT/RC Advance
Silver Platter Exchange
Singapore Nursing Journal
Sporting News
Subacute Care Today

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