As nurses, we feel like we have to do everything ourselves. We are conditioned that if we ask for help, somehow, we are weak. We are also conditioned that if we speak up, we will get in trouble and some of us may not be conditioned but have a fear of speaking up. In the dynamic and challenging world of healthcare, nurses play a crucial role in patient care. While our primary focus is on the well-being of their patients, there are instances where speaking up becomes essential for the … [Read more...]
You Have A Right To Remain Silent
If someone wants to talk to you and calls your cell phone, you can ignore the phone call and send it to voicemail. If they want to talk in person, we don’t need to answer the door. However, when it comes to your employer, the police or an investigator, we feel obligated to talk. Just know, you have the right to remain silent. It is hard with your employer as they can fire you for not talking but I see it time and time again where nurses think they have not done anything wrong so they spill … [Read more...]
Trial Of Nursing School “Diploma Mills”
Imagine the horror of learning that the Nursing School from which you graduated gave you a Diploma without proper training. There you are doing quite well in your job and suddenly you find that your License is about to be revoked because you did not attend a properly licensed School! That is exactly what happened in Florida’s Palm Beach School of Nursing, Quisqueya Health Academy, Sacred Heart Institute of Fort Lauderdale, and Siena College of Health in Lauderhill where “Operation … [Read more...]
RaDonda Vaught Loses License Appeal
As you and other readers probably know, I have frequently brought up issues regarding the case of Former Registered Nurse RaDonda Vaught who not only had her license revoked but was put on trial following a fatal medication error of administering vecuronium to a patient rather than the prescribed Versed. In the trial she faced a possible eight-year prison term for criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult but instead received three years’ probation. But the Tennessee … [Read more...]
Being Guilt Tripped By Your Employer?
Nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas were blocked from safely staffing the NICU in the Hospital’s reaction to staging a one day strike this past Wednesday (December 6, 2023). Prior to the planned strike, the Day Supervisor and Perinatal Director would not allow some nurses to work their shifts in the Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This action left only three Registered Nurses to tend to the NICU Patients, a ratio considered unsafe even by the Hospital staffing … [Read more...]
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