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Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing
In a previous post I revealed that I had been identified as part of an at-risk group made up of patients who had surgery at a big city hospital during a six-month span of time ...
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A large aging population coupled with too few nurses being educated equals a massive shortage of nurses. There’s nothing new about that equation. Possible solutions for ...
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I get pumped up over National Nurses’ Week. No one is sending me gifts, treating me to a spa day or honoring me at a special dinner but I like that there are nurses who ...
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Recently, I read a comment on an online nursing forum regarding the female writer’s newly issued student uniform and her displeasure with it. She included a photo of the ...
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Once again, a painful truth hurts more because it has become personal. What now? It’s the shortage of places in nursing programs for qualified applicants. My friend, Sue ...
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Things might be looking up for the nursing profession, thanks to the new administration in Washington. On March 5, 2009, American Nurses Association (ANA) president, Rebecca M ...
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If nurses would only show a little heart when dealing with difficult situations involving patients and families, it is likely that ruffled feathers could quickly be smoothed. ...
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The Truth About Nursing (TTAN) is a new, Maryland-based non-profit organization that promotes nursing by insisting on accurate portrayals of the profession by all media, be it ...
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I don’t like to think of myself as living in a bubble, unaware of the plight of others, but sometimes an issue is brought to my attention and I am dismayed to realize th ...
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Wow, how times have changed! The stiff competition among hospitals and other health care entities to attract a share of the short supply of nurses has resulted in a spate of c ...
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Death, despite its inevitability, is often not spoken about, let alone planned for. To get people talking about this subject, the sister-in-law of a young mother who died of a ...
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I’m beginning to feel a bit like Chicken Little—and, on top of that, more than a little confused. I had breakfast with my oncology nurse friend, Rita, a few days ...
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I admit it. This renegade C. diff bug that is running amok in hospitals has me more than a little freaked out. No sooner had I posted to this blog about the uber-nasty germ th ...
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Hand hygiene is in the news again, this time as part of the antidote for the much bigger news story, the nasty gut bug Clostridium difficile (C. diff). Largely hospital acqui ...
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For as far back as I can remember I have heard elderly and not-so-elderly relatives try to elicit promises from family members that a nursing home will not be in their future. ...
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Believe it or not, there is still controversy regarding whether to inform patients of possible adverse drug effects (ADE) when a new (to the patient) drug is prescribed. Why w ...
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On September 15 I posted to this blog the sad story of my beloved sister-in-law’s recent cancer diagnosis. The worst case survival scenario was five months—the be ...
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I recently sat in on a meeting of administrators of various care programs and facilities for the elderly, a few family member-caregivers and social workers. I came away dishea ...
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The Internet seems to be turning everyone into pseudo-medical experts, as a matter of necessity as much as anything else. Physicians are busier than ever and the patients&rsqu ...
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Here in Colorado the aspen leaves have turned from quaking green to shimmering gold, signaling that the calendar page has changed over to October—and if it’s Octob ...
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