AllergyNursing.com is provided by Lois Turley RN, a Registered Nurse who started working as an Allergy Nurse in 1991. During her career, she worked with both a Board Certified Allergist as well as a Board Certified Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Surgeon specializing in Allergy. The testing and treatment methods of the two specialties differ, and Lois has several years experience in each. This provides her a much broader scope than she could develop in one specialty.
By the beginning of the 21st century, many people were searching the web for reliable and easily understood information about allergies. It was hard to find. Nurses are often the best qualified to meet such a need. Physicians rely on their nurses to explain further to patients the things the physician told them.
In 2001, Lois started AllergyNursing.com to meet that need. Lois published her first Allergy Nursing Newsletter on June 11, 2001. Material for the newsletters was based on real live questions you were asking. Newsletters are not currently being published, but you can read the info Lois shared in them at our Allergy Relief and Allergy Questions archives of www.AllergyNursing.com. If you find links there that are no longer work, we apologize. We are working to move that information to an updated site.
Because of ongoing health problems, it became increasingly difficult for Lois to keep up the responsibilities of her job. In March of 2007, her employer felt it best to find a replacement for her. Lois was thankful to be given the opportunity to stay for three months to train her replacement. Although she now shares here as a disabled Allergy Nurse, Lois keeps abreast of new developments in the field.
For a long while, Lois was not able to keep up the AllergyNursing.com websites as she would have liked due to health issues. She is able to work some on them now, and she plans to move forward in the proud tradition that you have come to expect from AllergyNursing.com — that of providing quality and dependable health care information for allergy sufferers.
We are working to update AllergyNursing.com, including the pages linked above. Watch for good things to come!
Lois Turley RN
‘Your Allergy Nurse’
