peblevins

peblevins has 31 years experience and specializes in Community Mental Health.

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1. Raising Awareness of Nurse Suicide | Life of a Nurse

   peblevins replied to peblevins's topic in Stress 101

   LaZarca, This must have been very difficult for you to share. It means a lot. Yes you are invaluable! You are so right in saying that these issues should have been addressed decades ago. Many years ago, I worked on the floor with a nurse wh...

2. Raising Awareness of Nurse Suicide | Life of a Nurse

   peblevins posted a topic in Stress 101

   Recently I was looking for information on the effects of the pandemic on those with mental health disorders. MULTIPLE articles referred to a mental health crisis among nurses leading to an increase in suicides. A short time later, I learned of the su...

3. Nursing Judgement vs Physician Orders

   peblevins replied to renewyou62's topic in Career Support

   Kudos to you for doing what you knew was right as the doctor chose to believe a different story. A lot can change in 24 hours! In that setting, with your thorough charting, no one would have faulted you. And as a pulse of 90%=P02 of 60%, there wasn't...

4. Nursing Judgement vs Physician Orders

   peblevins replied to renewyou62's topic in Career Support

   I've learned that working in community/home health involves greater chance of using nursing judgement. There's situations that would make nursing judgement safer in a particular instance. Time of day of decision is a factor as doctor's offices are us...

5. Empathy and Framing Messaging to Change the Tide

   peblevins posted a topic in COVID

   In spite of the gravity of the pandemic, the unvaccinated continue to hold a strong conviction that it is not the right decision for them. As of May 2021, 37% of the US had not received one vaccine despite it being available and accessible1. For them...

6. 6 Tips for Success for New Nurse Graduates

   peblevins replied to dareese's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with all of these tips. When doing clinicals in nursing school, I witnessed the "nurses eat their young" adage. Then I was lucky enough to have clinicals at a small community hospital that was app. 45 minutes from where I lived. The nurses th...

7. Inpatient Nurses Answered the Call

   peblevins posted a topic in General Nursing

   As I watched the spread of COVID-19 across Asia and Europe in late 2019, I recall a sense of shock and disbelief but held on to a sense of hope that the effects on the U.S would somehow be less severe. I recalled the twenty-three years that I worke...