Month: March 2008
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Listen to your Head Nurse
And then, after all the bitching and complaining I’ve been doing about nursing, and all the bitching and complaining about people who complain about people who are bitching and complaining…. comes the voice of reason. To anyone who is considering nursing, studying nursing, or just plain a nurse, go and read this post. Thank you,…
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Nurses: Let the Bidding Begin
Here’s one approach to ending the nursing shortage. Nurseauction.com is a new site that features an auction style marketplace where nurses can bid for shifts that employers have posted. Also, nurses can post when they will available to work, and set their price. As you can see, I’ve already gotten in on the action: All…
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The Anger is Coming From Within
I read this post last night and realized it could have been written about me. I certainly have been doing a lot of complaining lately. A nursing student reading my blog might think twice before continuing with their nursing degree. My question is, what’s wrong with thinking twice about something? I’ve seen a lot of…
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Makeover Madness
Let’s face it. I’ve been blogging about some pretty frustrating topics lately. I think it’s high time we start having some fun around here. With that in mind I will offer you the following warning about this post: a. It’s not at all about nursing, b. It may entice you to waste huge amounts of…
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Follow the Money
At the end of my rant about sloppy physician’s orders, I asked the question, “How do you get beyond that kind of apathy?” May, whom I have a great deal of admiration for, said, “i know that clearly looks like apathy, but it could also mean something else. i maybe apathetic about the issue, but…
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16% of the US economy runs on scrawly, handwritten notes.
From A Scanner Brightly: “Health care currently consumes 16 out of every 100 dollars in the USA, but electronic health records are next to non-existent. The few that are in existence don’t talk to any of the others. If we ran banking like that we’d be… oh wait a minute, we did run banking like…