Nurses, Closure, Miss Colorado, and The View
As a nurse, I have to offer my sincere thanks to the folks at The View and the Miss America Pageant. I’m surprised as anyone to see myself offer those words, but it’s true. I’ve watched both shows very...
View ArticleNurse Bloggerpalooza! 6 Great New Posts From Aspiring Nurse Bloggers
Wow, what an exciting week for nurses! All the ado about The View and Miss Colorado has taken up lots of blogger time, so we won’t have as many contributions from the weekly Aspiring Nurse Bloggers...
View ArticleWorld’s Incompetent Coders Overwhelming Border Controls To Seek Refugee...
Breaking News: The world’s’ incompetent and/or hopelessly lazy computer coders and Electronic Medical Record (EMR, aka EHR) companies continue to overwhelm the health care industry’s border controls to...
View ArticleBoehnor to Seek Refugee Status Within Health Care Industry
Washington, D.C.: Speaker John A. Boehner called a press conference to update the press about his plans after resigning as leader of the US House of Representatives. The Speaker described a tentative...
View Article17-year-old invents a liquid technology that reportedly blocks bleeding promptly
You may have noticed that I’ve been dabbling with Onion-style spoof articles lately. This is not one of them. Randy Bernard offers an interested quick video about a new technology that may stop even...
View ArticleMentoring: My Take On the Most Essential Task in Nursing
Is mentoring really the most essential task in nursing? Probably not, but it’s this month’s theme and I’m willing to make a case for it: Nurses too often mistake the most pressing issue for the most...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Nurse Superpower? You Can Pick Anything You Like…
Recently we had some great fun with a series of posts devoted to nurses theme music: what would their music be if they could have theme music like in the movies? It was a month of posts – Let’s Have A...
View ArticleMighty Nurse Q&A with Miss Colorado (Kelley Johnson)
Mighty Nurse: First of all congrats on your performance in the Miss America pageant! You made the entire nursing community very proud… Source: Mighty Nurse Q&A with Miss Colorado (Kelley...
View ArticleStudy Confirms What We Knew All Along: Nurses Are Key to Hospital Success
Have you thanked a nurse lately? You’ll want to after reading this. Source: Study Confirms What We Knew All Along: Nurses Are Key to Hospital Success. Any thoughts?Filed under: RN Tagged: Health,...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Hire Thousands Of Nurses To Coordinate Care – Forbes
Health insurance companies are hiring record numbers of nurses as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of patients with medical coverage and plans look for ways to coordinate care of the newly...
View ArticleNurses: Tell America we need to be safe from injury! Tell your story today.
Thanks to the ANA for this opportunity for nurses to tell Congress about the risks nurses take every day, denied proper equipment to safely transfer patients. Tell your story! America needs to know...
View ArticleNurses Superheros: Good Fun!
This post is the third in a series that will last as long as the great ideas keep rolling in. I like to help nurses have some fun, think outside that darn box, use their creativity, strut their stuff....
View ArticleNurses Are Talking About: Why They Go to Work Sick
Do you go to work sick? Why? Laura A. Stokowski, RN, MS offers evidence that most of us do work sick, completely contrary to our training and public health responsibilities, and tries to explain why:...
View ArticleNurses, I Choose Progress. I Bounce a Ball!
These days I hear a question – always the same question – over and over, everywhere I go. Actually, it’s just with strangers I hear this question. Folks who know me don’t need to ask: they’re already...
View ArticleVideo: Nurses are brand ambassadors, too | Articles | Main
The great nurse featured in this video is well worth a quick watch: “Satisfied patients aren’t the only people who can offer compelling testimonials that tout your brand. ” Video: Nurses are brand...
View ArticleRole of nurses championed in getting correct diagnoses – News – The State...
Thanks to Vernon Dutton (@nursingpins) on Twitter for this story: “The role of nurses in figuring out the source of patients’ medical problems can’t be underestimated, a nationwide authority on...
View ArticleExceptional Nurse: What’s disability to me?
A quick easy video, inspirational and frankly too important to miss: Source: Exceptional Nurse: What’s disability to me? We typically think of it as in the disabled person. Surprisingly often, it...
View ArticleAspiring Nurse Bloggers Weekly #5
We have six contributions to share this week: Donna Carol Maheady offers What’s Disability to Me?, part of a series of videos produced by the World Health Organization. She picked an interview with a...
View ArticleNurse Superheroes, Part 4: Hurray!
Time to release some more great ideas from my Green Room: Hurray! I LOVE nurses’ great ideas, don’t you? For today, we’ll go with five I think: 1) Rahj N Kat Willenborg on Psychiatric Mental Health...
View ArticleWorkplace Violence Against Nurses in Healthcare Setting
“Workplace Violence Against Nurses in Healthcare Setting is a growing problem prompting a task force panel from the American Nurses Association.” Source: Workplace Violence Against Nurses in Healthcare...
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