dzadzey MSN, RN

Dialysis, Hospice, Critical care

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About dzadzey

dzadzey has 19 years experience as a MSN, RN and specializes in Dialysis, Hospice, Critical care.


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  1. Welp...Nurses Week is, mercifully over. Nurses everywhere got cheap trinkets, mediocre food and cheap sentiment from hospital administration. Hospital administrators got lots of opportunities to...
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    Who should decide?

    Nor is my argument about "spending government money". It's about quality versus quantity. It's about the toll futility of care takes on us as nurses...on the patient's families. Being realistic about...
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    Who should decide?

    Medical futility and reality trump hope and prayer. Just because we can maintain the function of a human body until the patient's skin blisters and they have weeping wounds on every extremity doesn't...
  4. Nursing theory is a guide...not writ in stone absolutes...a guide, to nursing practice. Nursing practice is wholly contextual, and nursing theory, nursing experience, life experience, and a whole host...
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    Nurses' Week - Upended.

    National Nurses Week - The one week of the year hospital administrators pretend to care about the well-being of nursing
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    Any Buddhist Nurses?

    I took refuge in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism back in the 90's and, like you, the philosophy of Buddhism speaks more strongly to me than the metaphysics of Buddhism, although it is still...
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Had one family the other day crowded in a room after the patient passed, the room smelled like a wet ashtray even after is was
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    "Sputum... of any kind. Especially have an aversion to trachs... ya know, when they cough and a glob will fly across the room. I just can't even. But along this same topic, does anyone find that...
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Patients and families with an overweening sense of entitlement, treating nurses and our support staff as if we were wait staff at a Waffle
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    Why are so many nurses against unions?

    National Nurses United (National Nurses United) is a good place to start. They can provide you with the training and resources...online and out of sight of management...you need to begin organizing....
  11. I have passed this sign countless times, and I finally just couldn't stand it anymore. It reminds me of a sign I saw posted in a yard in Norfolk, Virginia when I was stationed there years ago. It read...
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    Education of Nurses in the United States

    While inroads are being made in increasing the number of BSN prepared nurses at the bedside, the number will still fall far short of the recommendations in the 2010 IOM report on The Future of...
  13. "I believe that sooner or later nurses and all other workers in hospitals will organize themselves in unions to protect themselves against the injustices of low pay, overwork, overtime without pay,...
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    Black listing

    A nurse who I worked with on our unit for several years accepted a position as clinical nurse manager. I said, " I would congratulate you, but admin will throw you under the bus at the drop of a hat"....
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    Tired, Burned Out, and Broke...

    We attended our grand-niece's "white-coat" ceremony at OU School of Osteopathic Medicine several years back. It was a wonderful event, with all of these young people being welcomed into the medical...