BkirbyRN

I was sharing with a nursing student the other day that even though caps were no longer worn when I graduated in 2000, why I felt it significant to wear one in my nursing graduation photo. That was 20 years ago. The suggestion to the youngers that we...

I was taught in school that the practice of nursing is "self governed". I believed it and had major respect for it. But the current masses have taken it for granted all that hard work that our predecessors did for us to get where we are today. I am ...

Ok, dumb question.... How do we go about advocating for better funding? Like as a verb. I want to be proactive, not an ignorant complainer.

I was at the biggest dialysis clinic in Milwaukee. I quit because it was unsafe. The terrible thing is that I really loved it and I miss my patients and co-workers. I think dialysis is a really good fit for me and I think I'm a good fit for it. I wan...

It's just sad and like I said I don't understand all of the technicalities. I just don't want to drive home at the end of the day knowing that someone crashed while I was trying to stop someone else from bleeding out and there was no one standing whe...

Okay, I hear you. I'm just trying to understand. Because in some states there are laws defining what nurse to patient ratios are safe and are legally enforced. But not all of them. How does that happen? Because being forced into unsafe situations jus...

The RN's job and responsibility is to protect and guard our patients from letting anyone else harm them. That includes physicians and corporations. That's the point. If I say that it's reasonable to be put in that position under unreasonable circumst...

Who defines nursing standards of care and scope of practice? Not the economy.

This is what I thought I was taught, in essence: As with many other professions, such as physicians or pharmacists, registered nursing is a self-regulating profession. The purpose of regulation is to ensure that regulated health-care providers pr...

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