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Let’s Blame it on the Travel Nurse! So I’m reading this article about a resident who failed to perform a time-out before performing a bedside neurosurgical procedure on an 82-year old woman. The resident proceeded to make an incision into the wrong side of the patient’s head before it became known that it was in…

Become a L&D nurse in Santa Cruz County, CA. According to this article, labor and delivery nurses at Dominican Hospital make $83,000 – $110,000 per year. Of course the median house price in Santa Cruz County is $750,000 so if you actually wanted to be a homeowner there, you might have to consider some serious…

Everyone from the drug reps to nursing admin to the docs know that the way to nurses’ hearts is through their stomachs. I wish I could report that this was another one of those nurse-y stereotypes, but I have seen living proof of this. Just drop in on any unit during Nurse’s Appreciation Week and…

For those of you that work in the ICU, it looks like we are doing a good job in helping family members deal with their loved one’s death. According to this NIH funded study, family members of patients who died in the ICU tend to be more satisfied than family members of patients who survived…

In Maryland last week, parents were told they would be thrown in jail if they did not get their children’s vaccinations completed immediately: Parents Ordered to Court for Kids’ Shots On a similar note I came across this thread at allnurses.com: Held down and forced to take the flu shot Basically someone wrote in and…

I just got finished listening to Kim’s interview on the Doctor Anonymous blogtalkradio show. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend going over there and giving it a listen. Some highlights from the interview: Kim telling Vijay he’s allowed to sneak a picture of his kids on his blog every once in awhile. The day…