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I like almost nothing better than seeing someone’s passion come out through a response to another blogger’s post. You know those emails. The ones that just send your mind on a tangent, get your blood boiling, and your fingers typing fast, but your brain going faster.
I have done it myself here.
I […]

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I don’t usually get all excited about anything in the MSM, but this was well written and highlights a battle each of us fights when caring for patients:
When Does ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Make Sense?
By SCOTT HAIG

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While listening to NPR this morning on my way home from work, they did a piece on Jill Leovy who, for the past year, has done her best to report (blog) on every homicide in Los Angeles County at The Homicide Report.
It is easy for us to look at these victims as just another patient […]

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Yes, I ignored the Center for Nursing Advocacy’s 2007 Golden Lamp Awards because I have a difficult time justifying the fight against the MSM regarding the portrayal of nurses. It just annoys me to see a frumpy, old school nurse bitching about the way some restaurant sexifies nurses, or the fact that some tv […]

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Family: Hospital’s IV Error Threatens Baby’s Arm—Indy Channel 6, January 8, 2008 
As we all know, IVs in infants are usually wrapped in such a way that the site is difficult to assess. Having gone though numerous busy shifts we all know how easy it can be to miss something like this, especially in a patient who […]

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PEORIA, Ill., Jan. 7—PRNewswire
UIC College of Nursing in Peoria Now Accepting Applications for New Doctorate of Nursing Practice
So, anyone in the area interested, here is another DNP program open for enrollment!

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You know…not two days ago I was wishing I had something to cover my stethoscope with during those crazy, bloody traumas. I also keep asking my coworkers that we are intelligent people—why can’t we think of a good invention to get rich and retire off of?
This nurse, thinking outside of the box may have […]

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It is good to see more concrete feedback from implemented nurse to patient ratios. Here is a run down from the California Progress Report.
California’s Nurse-Patient Ratio Law Saving Lives, Reducing the Nursing Shortage
Looks like success by nurses in California is setting the stage in other states as well:
CNA/NNOC has sponsored similar proposed bills in […]

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Here are two MSM links to interesting insights into placebos.
The first is from NPR—Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect—and is worth listening to. Prior to, however, I would suggest putting on your research evaluation thinking cap. Fairly well balanced piece and a good example of strong research vs weak research discussion.
The second (which […]

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The debate over the unionization of nurses continues. The last half of the year in California was a busy one for nurses.
Both strikes were called in the name of better patient safety and nurse-floating policies, cost of living increases and uniform benefits for all nurses.
While I lived in Philly, one health system’s nursing union […]

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