Nurses: Protocol-ed to Extinction?
If you have been at your nursing job for a while, you’ve probably almost forgotten. Forgotten what it was like to come in to the healthcare system you now work for and realize there are hundreds of new...
View ArticleWhen Doctor/ Nurse interactions escalate
When it comes to doctor/ nurse interactions, when is enough, enough? Last week, I dealt with an upsetting situation involving a physician and nurse. A little background: The nurse has been working on...
View ArticleWhen Patients Code in Scanners
Patients code in diagnostic scanners. I know this because in my three short years as a nurse, two of my own have done it. I guess you can say that is a pretty low percentage, but to me (and my fellow...
View ArticleHospital Social Media Policy: Why your hospital needs one
Let’s face it. Your employees are on Facebook. As a hospital system, you may have blocked access to certain social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. But did you block access on their...
View ArticleDisability
Recieving disability payments is more difficult than one might think. To catch you up, I recieved Short Term Disability payments through my employer over the summer. After an initial denial of my...
View ArticleHow I landed on the other end of the stethoscope
An NIH study points to autoimmunity as the underlying cause of more than a hundred life-altering, chronic illnesses and that 75% of those with autoimmune disorders are women. I’m one of them. I...
View ArticleDysfunctional Encounters of the Physician Kind
With hospital systems and insurance companies requiring increased quantity of patient appointments rather than encouraging better quality interactions, no wonder I have encountered many frustrating...
View ArticleThe Science and The Art of Medicine
I recently came across an article in the Health & Science section of The Washington Post: Hit by a car, an emergency doctor experiences firsthand the shortcomings in ER care. I almost didn’t finish...
View ArticleFamous Nurse Fired for Instagram Post
Katie Duke, nurse and star of ABC’s NY MED, was fired recently for posting an image to Instagram with the caption man vs. 6 train. The image, seen above, is of a trauma bay after the man was worked on...
View ArticleWhy the nurse is not to blame for the Ebola “mistake”
There is a lot of talk about why the man diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was sent home from the emergency room not having been tested for Ebola despite telling the triage...
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