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Do you ask your patients if they feel safe at home? Do you ask them when you are alone with them? Are you prepared for a negative answer?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month -- and I have the pink ribbon. It is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Sometimes, they go hand in hand.
Ask your patient if she is safe at home -- even if her husband is handsome and charming, well-dressed and well spoken. Ask even if you know her husband, he's...
Domestic Abuse is not "fighting" or "arguing". Minimizing it or justifying it doesn't help anyone except the abuser. Let's call it what it is.
October is Breast Cancer month. It is also Domestic Violence Awareness month. I've been through both, and breast cancer is not the hardest thing I've ever done.
October is breast cancer month. It is also domestic abuse awareness month. I've been through both, and breast cancer was not the worst thing to ever happen to
As a new grad or new colleague, the respect we get is in our own hands. We show others by our actions whether or not we are worthy of respect. Some of us earn...
October is Breast Cancer month; it is also domestic violence awareness month. As it turns out, breast cancer is not the worst thing to ever happen to me. Here's...
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is a conversation that is difficult on either side and for every participant. But it's a conversation that...
Not all preceptors are made in heaven; most are downright human. You can still learn from them, though, even if they're not perfect. Here's how --
You know that "biting my tongue" thread, and the things we'd love to say to patients but we can't, because we're the nurse? Well, when you're the patient, you...
Negative feedback is something that we all encounter in our lives, both giving and receiving. Neither is easy and most kind people would rather give positive...
I've learned a bit in nearly four decades at the bedside -- and I still remember what it was like to be brand new. Here's some wisdom -- and an invitation for...
Don't you just love it when established posters get called out by new members who don't like the answers to the questions they've posted? Especially when the...
I've been trying to write this article for a week, about end of life issues, dementia, institutionalization and what Katrina did to those who were already...
If you think "allnurses" is harsh sometimes, you've totally missed out on the unmoderated newsgroups of the 1990s usenet. We're all new to the forums at some...
After nearly four decades, I still remember my miserable, awful, no good first year of nursing vividly. It was my first full time job, the most responsibility...
As nurses, we often feel that we know how to help someone. We KNOW that a woman in an abusive relationship should leave, just leave. And we tell her so. But do...
You've done your job; you've noticed that the woman under your care seems to have an awful lot of accidents, and injuries are not consistent with her story,...
Not every family who visits is there to be supportive of the patient. Some of them are even downright unsupportive. Here are some of the worst visitors I've...
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