Recently, an article in The Atlanta Journal Constitution detailed how the Georgia Board of Nursing secretly handles more than half of its disciplinary cases. What I gather from the article is that nurses who are put into a monitoring program, as long as they are compliant, will have not have discipline against their license. The article pointed out that in 2017, the Board has 333 new disciplinary orders. Of that number, 54% were private with just under half of that group being alcohol or … [Read more...]
The Weight Of The World
I am of the opinion that when a person falls ill, it’s a symptom of something else going on in their life. Whether you believe this, you can really heal yourself or not, just thinking that you can heal yourself works like the placebo effect. I love Louise Hay’s book titled, “You Can Hear Your Life,” which, for instance, says shoulders “represent our ability to carry out experiences in life joyously. We make life a burden by our attitude.” Our attitude affects our heath. So if you believe … [Read more...]
Criminal Charge For Nurse In Patient’s Death
On April 12th of this year, Christann Shyvin Gainey, L.P.N., was caring for a patient named H.R. McMaster, Sr. who was recovering from a stroke in a Pennsylvania facility. During her shift and unwitnessed, Mr. McMaster fell and nurse Gainey was seen on surveillance video failing to perform neuro checks thereafter as required by the facility’s policy. Mr. McMaster was found dead sitting in the lobby of the facility. He suffered blunt trauma to the head from an unwitnessed fall and developed a … [Read more...]
Health Care Provider Gabapentin Abuse
I have recently seen a number of health care professionals using Gabapentin, which is used to treat epilepsy, postherpetic neuralgia (shingles), but also widely prescribed off-label to treat fibromyalgia, neuropathy, migraines and other chronic pain conditions. In 2016, 64,000,000 prescriptions were written in the U.S. for Gabapentin, the 10th most prescribed medication. This is a 49% increase in just 5 years. In researching this issue, it appears that Gabapentin can increase or heighten the … [Read more...]
Nursing Boards: Why Are They So Harsh?
I am frequently asked why nursing boards are so harsh. The Boards are composed of nurses and shouldn’t the Board understand the situations in which nurses get involved? California has had issues with their Board. California has a separate Board of Nursing for Registered Nurses and one for License Vocational Nurses. The RN Board is called the Board of Registered Nursing (“B.R.N.”). In some parts of the country, licensed vocational nurses are called licensed practical … [Read more...]
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