Lorie Brown, RN, MN, JD of Brown Law Office, P.C. discusses what can happen if you have an action or discipline against your nursing license if you have licenses in different states - even if your license is expired. This is called the "Domino Effect". … [Read more...]
Beware Do No Harm
The Joint Commission, which provides accreditation of health care organizations, issued a mandate requiring surgical/procedure teams to have a time-out prior to beginning an operation to prevent wrong site surgery. Yet, time-outs are always taken and surgical errors continue to occur. Whatâs more disturbing is that a study was done prior to the time-out procedures and found at least 1 person in the operating room knew that surgery was being performed on the wrong site but was too afraid to … [Read more...]
Employment Discrimination Against Nurses
Most States are âemployment at willâ which means that one can be terminated for any reason or even for no reason at all! However, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, employers are prohibited from discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin. In a recent case, a 60-year-old nurse of Chinese descent, worked at the Cleveland Clinic since 1976. Ms. Lee started over 40 years ago, when she was just 23 years old. In 2009, … [Read more...]
Top Blogs of 2016
You read and we listened! Here is a list of what you say were my top blogs of 2016. If you missed any of them, you have another opportunity to check them out by clicking on the article titles, which will take you to those writings. I always try to balance my articles between something that is empowering and something that is protecting. Interesting though, all the top 10 blogs actually involved license protection. NUMBER 10: âYou Can Get Another Job but You Canât Get Another … [Read more...]
How Your Bill Becomes Law
Congratulations to South Dakota for becoming the most recent State to pass a law to grant full and direct access to Nurse Practitioners!  This is the 22nd State to authorize NPs to provide the full scope of services to the public. Certainly, this will enhance patientsâ ability to access high quality health care. Just how are laws made? Letâs take some time here to learn about how you can get one in the law books. First, you need to find one of your Stateâs legislators who will âsponsorâ … [Read more...]
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