Kathy Quan

Kathy Quan RN BSN PHN has been a nurse for over thirty-five years. After a few short years of hospital nursing, she moved to home health care and hospice where she could truly spend time with her patients and provide quality care and education to the patients and their families and caregivers, as well as mentor new staff.

Kathy has always loved to write and began to combine this with her nursing career as she wrote patient education materials and nurse education materials. She broadened this horizon when she became the Guide to Nursing at About.com in 2004. She was the last Guide to Nursing when About.com combined the nursing site into a Health Careers site in 2007. She has moved that content to her own blog and website. TheNursingSite.com and TheNursingSiteBlog. She has become an award-winning blogger and author.

In 2005, Kathy was recruited by Adams Media to write her first book, The Everything New Nurse Book, which was published in March 2006. It was so successful that in 2009, Adams Media re-purposed it into 150 Tips and Tricks for New Nurses. Two more editions/versions have been published as well. In 2011, The Everything New Nurse, Second Edition was published. In 2007, The Everything Guide to Careers in Health Care was published. In 2015, Kathy self-published Exploring the Home Health Care Experience; A Guide to Transitioning Your Career Path. It's available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

In 2008, Kathy wrote The Everything Guide to Caring for Aging Parents from her vast experience in the twenty-five plus years as a home health and hospice nurse as well as her own life experiences in caring for ill and aging parents and in-laws. It was published in February, 2009. She is now writing a blog about caring for aging parents: www.AboutAgingParents.com

Her latest book is Exploring the Home Health Care Experience: A Guide to Transitioning Your Career Path. It's available in paperback and Kindle versions.

Kathy lives in southern California with her husband Tim and 2 dogs. They have three terrific adult children and 2 beautiful granddaughters.