The AJOG article was written in 2020 and the NPR article was written in 2017. So no link there. The author of the AJOG article is a researcher with The Turnaway Study, which is an organization that...
PoodleBreath replied to BC Roberts's topic in General Nursing
The BON sets regulations and defines scope of nurse practice at the various professional levels/degrees, ensures that nursing professionals practice safely, and investigates and disciplines violations...
If residents are consistently making accusatory statements they should be care planned so there is documentation that it is a known behavior and how the facility is working to manage it. The social...
PoodleBreath replied to Heart_nursing's topic in LPN, LVN Corner
Are you sure you want to stay at this job? Sounds like a nightmare and since you are the wound care nurse, when State does their survey they'll be pulling records on all your patients. Even if you've...
PoodleBreath replied to happyhippo's topic in General Nursing
I just read yet another article about the toll of the pandemic on healthcare workers that centered on the idea that nurses only work in hospitals. It's frustrating and depressing to feel so invisible....
PoodleBreath replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing
Was agreeing with you. The system is a snake that eats it's own tail. The fact that this happens in healthcare and on top of that to a healthcare worker in that very hospital makes it all the more...
PoodleBreath replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing
The irony is that the hospital sells those debts to collection agencies for pennies on the dollar. By the time that your friend ended up in collections the hospital no longer owned the debt, they had...
It doesn't sound like any of them are firing on a full set of pistons. If this is the end result of their investigation- if you could call it that- can we know if any of the information they say they...
PoodleBreath replied to Candy999's topic in Nursing Career
I worked telemetry as an LPN but I also had my ACLS and am IV certified. The monitors were also at the nurse's station and we additionally had an ACLS telemetry unit assistant who did nothing but...
PoodleBreath replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News
Agree. It wasn't just the fake card, it was the $900,000.00 cash in the house, a ledger detailing where the money came from, and a data trail showing they had fraudulently entered the information into...
Some herbal therapies can interact badly with meds, or can have unanticipated effects if the person recommending them is not really knowledgeable. But fostering a therapeutic mind-body connection is a...
PoodleBreath replied to EmNightShamala's topic in HIPAA Challenges
Did they notify the coworkers whose information was accessed? This is a pretty serious boundary violation, if it were me I'd be advocating for the employee to be fired. That's the kind of thing that...
PoodleBreath replied to LasercopyNurse's topic in General Nursing
It's late for me and my brain is in snooze mode, or it could be the original post just isn't making a lot of sense, but is the poster asking the internet to do their homework
PoodleBreath replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing
I agree with others questioning the logistics of this conversation. How many floors does this building have that the elevator ride was so long? If it was both end of shift and break time, why did no...
I've been in facilities where this happened. It's incredibly bad practice and could sink a nurse and a facility. And I've seen nurses get fired for that.Terrible safety issue, especially if the...