rashana

rashana specializes in ICU, PIC, BURN UNIT, PEDS, MED SURG, PSY.

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1. Facebook almost cost me my job

   rashana replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Relations

   Or maybe we just need to find the real legal definition of "patient confidentiality" or who benefits from keeping "secrets" If the names are changed and circumstances altered a bit, one is allowed to write books. Why then not on facebook or allnurs...

2. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

   rashana replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Pin and everyone else, I began this fight 27 years ago when I wrote the Nurse's Story and got to go cross country doing TV, radio and print in 21 cities 3 different times. And though no one alone can make a difference, each one of us can. Now I ...

3. 20 % Pay Cut for Ohio Independent Providers

   rashana replied to katnursey's topic in Ohio

   What organization represents us? What happens when no one covers our back? And as we have more nurses go into advanced practice, who will be there then to support us in the ways the AMA did doctors? Does no one find that a problem?

4. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

   rashana replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   To Madwoman 2002, I love it! But more nurses and more patients should know that's how healthcare is run today. There are so many of us that if we could just team up we'd be a force to be reckoned with. But we'd all have to do it. Problem is we ...

5. Facebook almost cost me my job

   rashana replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Relations

   Except if everyone began speaking up, they couldn't fire everyone. There are whistleblower laws and if anything is dangerous to a patient, there is the concept of nursing ethics and advocacy for the patients to be considered. I just read an article...

6. Facebook almost cost me my job

   rashana replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Relations

   Are nurses the only ones without "free speech" and who does it benefit? It's in place so we don't ruin any institutions PR, or so the business of medicine can't be sued. But where does it leave us as far as reaching out for support, as far as shari...

7. Is there a nursing representative/lobbyist in washngton??

   rashana replied to californiadreaming's topic in Activism

   Hey guys and girls, I just read the post by californiadreaming, and I'm not quite understanding why everyone attacked. Nursing is taken advantage of, they can't fight for their rights against insurance companies in the same way that the AMA does for ...

8. Facebook almost cost me my job

   rashana replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Relations

   I've read several posts by docs on FB and yet only once did I read that a doctor was fined 500 dollars for breaching patient confidentiality. The AMA backed her up. Is there an organization that has our back? Does the ANA or any other legal or pol...

9. Annoyed by nursing commerical they keep running

   rashana replied to Missy77's topic in General Students

   I agree. It's condescending and they don't do it to other professionals. Imagine saying to a lawyer, "You make a difference." Or to a doctor "You make a difference." It's almost like saying "Good girl," or "good boy" while these same pharma compa...

10. allnurses.com ranked the #1 facebook page for nurses to follow

    rashana replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know who funded this study? I'd love to look up the original article. And do we know how many of these (aside from Brian's allnurses) is individually run rather than corporate backed? Just wondering about the amount of funding it would...

11. not what I bargained for

    rashana replied to kni0084's topic in General Nursing

    Or maybe we should "believe" that each and every one of us who went into nursing to serve, will do just that. And that will have to be enough. That we are enough. And if we do it with the intention to heal, that's the energy we bring to it. The p...

12. not what I bargained for

    rashana replied to kni0084's topic in General Nursing

    Dear coolpeach, Until we can change the system, we have to bring the healing to the patients with our own knowledge of healing. Love heals, caring and kindness heal, that is what feeds the soul and the heart as much as food feeds their bodies. So i...

13. Coworker issues - so disheartening

    rashana replied to rn865's topic in General Nursing

    You think that's what's causing a rift in the workplace? Or do you think maybe the whole structure is set up to split one nurse against another?

14. Coworker issues - so disheartening

    rashana replied to rn865's topic in General Nursing

    Both of you have your strengths, and because only the educational part is valued in the system, you might want to tell her that you know her experience counts and as soon as we get to a healing model rather than a business model of medicine (not yet ...

15. not what I bargained for

    rashana replied to kni0084's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder what would happen, if all nurses joined forces and refused to do all the things that took us away from caring for our patients. According to the Code of Nursing Ethics if we see harm coming to a patient from the system they're in, we're sup...