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  1. Maureen Walsh Meme Nurses Week Contest

    Inventor of Cards Against Humanity: Nurses' Edition
  2. stroke certification

    The American Board of Neuroscience Nurses has now developed a certification in Stroke Nursing. The CSRN examination will be available in May of 2013 and information is available at www.aann.org.
  3. Anyone used music as an intervention?

    Please try to incorporate input from a qualified music therapist. Music therapy is more complex than most of us realize. You can find a qualified therapist in your area by going to http://www.musictherapy.org/ Keep up the good work.
  4. How will the DNP be integrated into NP education?

    Please note: All of the public universities in Arizona, ASU, U of A, and NAU offer only DNP for nurse practitioners. However, the private universities are still offering the Master's degrees.
  5. How will the DNP be integrated into NP education?

    As of 2015, it is the accrediting body for colleges of nursing (the American Association of Colleges of Nursing) that will only accredit DNP programs for Nurse Practitioners. You can find information at this website: American Association of College...
  6. What to do about disruptive behavior?

    One: Learn from this and NEVER do it to another nurse. Option A: Go to the offending nurse, state that her behavior was against policy and inconsistent with professional behavior, however, let her know you understand and appreciate her passion for ...
  7. This is EXACTLY why I don't like taking Verbal orders

    Per the Joint Commission, what you are describing are telephone orders, which are different from verbal orders (although both are spoken). Verbal orders are those given while the provider is in your presence and should only be used in an emergency o...
  8. This is EXACTLY why I don't like taking Verbal orders

    Dear Godfather RN: I don't disagree with you because I too was an ICU nurse for a very long time. My primary surgical population was neurosurgery. It is very different when you work in ICU and in a specialty where there are few physicians and you g...
  9. This is EXACTLY why I don't like taking Verbal orders

    Use the facility policy. If the physician still refuses to write his orders, invoke the disruptive physician policy. Do NOT rely on your charge nurse/director to handle this. Send an email to your chief medical officer stating the problem. The ph...
  10. HIPAA violation or just a bad decision?

    Any and all photography of any patient is a horrible violation and the person should be ashamed. There are some exclusions, histological samples..., but these are usually listed in the conditions of admission. Never, ever take a picture of a patien...
  11. What does it take to earn respect?

    They cannot. I would bet money your hospital has a disruptive physician policy or something similar...Invoke It! Talk to the Medical Director of the facility, not your charge nurse. All physicians must usually answer, in person, to the medical dir...
  12. Does the Clinical Ladder violate Labor Laws?

    The issue is this: Any individual ADN may be better than any or every BSN new graduate nurse, however, scientific studies are based on aggregates. In the aggregate, hospitals with more BSN nurses generally (to a statistically significant level) hav...
  13. I fully agree with and support the concept of nurses as an important political constituency. However, we should not focus on issues that divide us. Not every nurse is pro/anti abortion, seat belts, helmet laws, immigration, etc. and many differ on ...
  14. Looking for advice! NP vs. MD

    I am an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice. Nursing and medicine are disperate but complementary entities. I like to say that the best physicians practice nursing without a license. In the hospital, I see stroke patients....
  15. Fictional vital sign charting

    As for the CNA training/education regarding VS... The RN has legally delegated this responsibility to the CNA and therefore is responsible to validate their understanding. It only takes a couple of minutes to explain these types of things to your CN...