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Shout-out to New Nursing Students 22 Aug 2013 | 02:27 am
It’s time for school to start, and that means that a new class of nursing students will be cracking their first nursing textbooks and thrilling when they first see themselves in scrubs. They will be a...
Volunteer Nurses: No, I’m Not Joking 14 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
At a board meeting this week, we were doing introductions for the new year, and a nurse well known to me announced she was a volunteer nurse at the hospital where I work. I thought to myself, “What?” ...
Are You Really a Nurse? 7 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
I had occasion to be in the hospital more than I would have liked last week (I’m all better now), and my experiences revealed a problem that I didn’t know was a problem. People frequently either outr...
Nurses Are Terrible Patients 4 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
Things change when the nurse becomes the patient. I missed my blog post last week because I was in a hospital bed. I thought I would just take my electronic toys, but it turns out that by the time you...
Best Convenience Foods for Nurses 24 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
Most nurses cite nutrition as an obstacle to working 12-hour shifts and staying healthy. Why are there so many overweight nurses, particularly on night shift? Because it is extremely challenging to wo...
Worrying Trends in Mental Health for Nurses 19 Jul 2013 | 12:57 am
Last weekend, about six of my coworkers and I were sitting around discussing the general trend of decreasing mental health in healthcare workers. All of us were receiving some kind of treatment for de...
Nurses Can Help Caregivers Too 11 Jul 2013 | 07:22 pm
As the population ages, increasingly people are caregivers for aging parents. An extra wrench in the spokes is that often now patients themselves are caregivers for someone else. The caregiver role is...
Hooray, It’s a Holiday! Tips for Safety 4 Jul 2013 | 01:08 am
Here in the United States, it’s a big summer holiday: the 4th of July. Independence Day. Like many of our holidays which once held meaning, this one has largely been boiled down to fireworks and barbe...
Alarm Fatigue Is Alarming 27 Jun 2013 | 07:22 pm
The Joint Commission is concerned about alarm fatigue. Everyone should be concerned about alarm fatigue. Nurses should be concerned about it because a missed “true-positive” alarm can mean a dead pati...
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say? 20 Jun 2013 | 07:49 pm
I am convinced that (a) patients and their family members and friends are becoming ruder and more entitled the more they realize that hospitals are catering to them. Alongside that I am seeing mountin...
