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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 write books. Why then not on facebook or allnurs...

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 can make a difference, each one of us can. Now I ...

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? Does no one find that a problem?

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 with. But we'd all have to do it. Problem is we ...

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 patients to be considered. I just read an article...

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 as far as reaching out for support, as far as shari...

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 insurance companies in the same way that the AMA does for ...

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 our back? Does the ANA or any other legal or pol...

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 girl," or "good boy" while these same pharma compa...

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? Just wondering about the amount of funding it would...

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 to heal, that's the energy we bring to it. The p...

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 the heart as much as food feeds their bodies. So i...

You think that's what's causing a rift in the workplace? Or do you think maybe the whole structure is set up to split one nurse against another?

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 rather than a business model of medicine (not yet ...

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 to a patient from the system they're in, we're sup...

Good God girl, I do remember feeling just like you and the only thing I can say is that when you least expect it, life changes. Honestly. I used to take to my bed for days at a time just to get up in time to go to work again. My kids had to stay w...

There was a wonderful story and article this morning on Fierce Health Care regarding an story written by a doctor about Hospice in the New Yorker magazine. Because I took care of so many dying patients and worked in hospice myself, I found it wonder...

Viva, you should write articles and books to make everyone aware of how nurses feel and what they know. In the mid 80's I wrote a book called The Nurse's Story and did all kinds of TV, radio and print ads. I did it because I couldn't stand the fact...

One of the perks of spending years nursing, taking care of others' family members, is that when the end was coming for both my mother and father, my family and I allowed them to die at home. It was because of all my experience with other patients I ...

Maybe we should all suggest that teaching and mentoring should be added to the curriculum in nursing school. Unfortunately, sometimes the kids of abusers become abusers themselves, and its known that those who are oppressed or intimidated often wind...

Does anyone document or chart patient's Near death experiences? I was just wondering because so much research is being done lately on the follow up experiences and change of perceptions and mental state once someone has an NDE. I'd heard a lot from...

I should have been clearer, sorry. I actually meant a patient brought back to life and remembering seeing things or knowing things they couldn't have known. From the patients perspective- an extraordinary event that causes a life change. I underst...

I'd take something easy that uses right brain thinking. With the courses you're taking, you'll overwhelm your rational thinking. Maybe computers but something in art or graphics. I took speech and creative writing, and it help more than you can im...

I wonder how many hospitals actively recruit nurses from outside the country, and I wonder if they get paid the same amount? Does anyone know?

I think there is a nursing shortage but I don't know who is at the bedside taking care of the patients. My feeling is that they're laying off more experienced nurses to hire nurses or others who cost hospitals less.