rashana
specializes in ICU, PIC, BURN UNIT, PEDS, MED SURG, PSY.
I am a writer who wrote the book "The Nurse's Story" about hero nurses and patients. It was a book about a nurse's optimistic dream and then nursing's reality. I also wrote several other books and have a website starwater.com
Or maybe we just need to find the real legal definition of "patient confidentiality" or who benefits from keeping "secrets" If the names are changed and circumstances altered a bit, one is allowed to...
Dear Pin and everyone else, I began this fight 27 years ago when I wrote the Nurse's Story and got to go cross country doing TV, radio and print in 21 cities 3 different times. And though no one alone...
rashana replied to katnursey's topic in Ohio Nursing
What organization represents us? What happens when no one covers our back? And as we have more nurses go into advanced practice, who will be there then to support us in the ways the AMA did doctors?...
To Madwoman 2002, I love it! But more nurses and more patients should know that's how healthcare is run today. There are so many of us that if we could just team up we'd be a force to be reckoned...
Except if everyone began speaking up, they couldn't fire everyone. There are whistleblower laws and if anything is dangerous to a patient, there is the concept of nursing ethics and advocacy for the...
Are nurses the only ones without "free speech" and who does it benefit? It's in place so we don't ruin any institutions PR, or so the business of medicine can't be sued. But where does it leave us...
Hey guys and girls, I just read the post by californiadreaming, and I'm not quite understanding why everyone attacked. Nursing is taken advantage of, they can't fight for their rights against...
I've read several posts by docs on FB and yet only once did I read that a doctor was fined 500 dollars for breaching patient confidentiality. The AMA backed her up. Is there an organization that has...
I agree. It's condescending and they don't do it to other professionals. Imagine saying to a lawyer, "You make a difference." Or to a doctor "You make a difference." It's almost like saying "Good...
Does anyone know who funded this study? I'd love to look up the original article. And do we know how many of these (aside from Brian's allnurses) is individually run rather than corporate backed?...
Or maybe we should "believe" that each and every one of us who went into nursing to serve, will do just that. And that will have to be enough. That we are enough. And if we do it with the intention...
Dear coolpeach, Until we can change the system, we have to bring the healing to the patients with our own knowledge of healing. Love heals, caring and kindness heal, that is what feeds the soul and...
Both of you have your strengths, and because only the educational part is valued in the system, you might want to tell her that you know her experience counts and as soon as we get to a healing model...
I wonder what would happen, if all nurses joined forces and refused to do all the things that took us away from caring for our patients. According to the Code of Nursing Ethics if we see harm coming...