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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…
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Nurse or Secretary?
Here’s a daunting question: Is the convenience of taking a verbal order worth your nursing license? When you practice nursing, you kind of have to look at each patient as a legal liability for yourself. At least that is what you are advised to do from the very beginning. Every order that isn’t written correctly,…
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The more I work the less I blog.
In a perfect world it would be the other way around. Fortunately, my husband has just landed a sweet new job and will be compensated enough so that I no longer have to work. (Don’t hate me, please.) It’s brought about an interesting question: Would you continue to be a nurse if financially you didn’t…
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Did Hillary Clinton Really Say That Nurses Were Overpaid?
photo credit: ronnie44052 I’ve been getting a lot of google traffic lately from this particular phrase: “hillary clinton nurse overpaid” On first thought you would think I would welcome this traffic, because it might suggest that people are interested in a nurse blogger’s view of politics. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case, at all. The most…