In nursing, there is a fine line between high tech and high touch.  Sometimes I wonder, with so much technology, will they even need nurses in the future? Someday there may be a “tricorder” like Bones used in the Star Trek series to diagnose and heal people.  But … back to reality. It’s interesting that nursing is so high tech yet there are a 100,000 deaths that occur in hospitals each year as a result of medical mistakes.  To learn more click here. Other high tech industries do not have … [Read more...]

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If a nurse ever faces a criminal matter, they could wind up on the Medicare and Medicaid Exclusion list which prohibits a nurse from working in any facility where they take Medicare or Medicaid payments which is virtually every place. The goal of many attorneys is to keep a nurse with a criminal matter out of prison which is proper and a worthy goal for their client.  However, many an attorney may not understand the ramification if their nurse client is added to the exclusion list that makes … [Read more...]

Finally, the Department of Veteran Affairs has granted veterans direct access to advanced practice registered nurses.  It used to be that nurse practitioners were under the direction of a physician.  However, now in the entire VA system, nurse practitioners can practice independently.  This will give veterans increased access to care and decrease the long wait times that they have been experiencing. There are over 200,000 nurse practitioners in the country; 5,000 who work in the VA system.  … [Read more...]