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.Ā In 2016, 64,000,000 prescriptions were written in the U.S. for Gabapentin, the 10th most prescribed medication.Ā 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 shouldnāt 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 (āB.R.N.ā). In some parts of the country, licensed vocational nurses are called licensed practical … [Read more...]
Initiatives to Stop Violence Against Health Care Providers
Guest Blog by Mathew Keller, RN, JD.Ā Reprinted with Permission from The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA) The forcible and violent July 26th, 2017 arrest of Utah nurse Alex Wubbels was a proverbial shot heard around the nursing world, provoking national media attention and a visceral reaction of support for nurses culminating in national campaigns to #EndNurseAbuse (ANA), #STAMP (stop assaults against medical providers, Show Me Your Stethoscope), and initiatives to escalate … [Read more...]
The Opioid Crisis
The U.S. Surgeon General, Jerome Adams (coincidentally from Indiana), is recommending that Americans carry Narcan in the event of encountering an opioid-related overdose to reverse the affects of the opiates.Ā It is sad when the Surgeon General needs to recommend to Americans, (the general population) to carry Narcan.Ā Police and Fireman already carry it.Ā However, if my child were addicted to opiates, I would carry one too. Since the demand for Narcan (Naloxone) has increased, so too has the … [Read more...]
Safe Staffing Initiatives For Nurses
As nurses, we are the front line of patient safety. These days, hospitals are run as corporations and tend to put profits ahead of patients.Ā We need to change this.Ā People come first! Because hospitals are now run like businesses, productivity experts and personnel who are not nurses, ask us to do so much more with less. Ā Administration is squeezing nurses to put their patientsā lives at risk and their licenses on the line. I am all for mandatory nurse patient ratios. Ā While I think it … [Read more...]
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