10 WAYS TO GET IN TROUBLE WITH THE NURSING BOARD
Every nurse I have ever represented said, “I am a good nurse. I never thought I would have to appear before the Board.” But here they are caught in the administrative quagmire. There are a myriad of...
View ArticleTik Tok Nurse Implodes Her Job
An Oregon oncology nurse posted a video on Tik Tok saying that she does not wear masks in public, continues to travel and allows her children to have playdates. Someone who viewed the video reported...
View ArticleNurse Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A Minnesota emergency room nurse was concerned about having to wear his own scrubs to work during COVID and returning home to his wife and children wearing those potentially contaminated scrubs. He...
View ArticleCan You Train A Nurse In 2 Days To Work In ICU?
California Governor Gavin Newsom proposes that nurses be trained in ICU care in just 48 hours. Maybe they can be trained in 2 days but certainly not sufficiently enough to do things safely or within...
View ArticleTop Ten Blog Posts of 2020
As I always provide at the start of each year, here are the TOP TEN BLOGS of the previous year. For 2020, we start with number 10 and go up the scale to the top blog of the year. In at number 10, Can...
View ArticleRecipe For Disaster: More Patients Per Nurse
California is the only state that has mandatory minimum staffing. However, when the pandemic hit and ICUs were filled to capacity, the state’s Department of Public Health allowed hospitals to apply...
View ArticleNursing Boards’ Dirty Little Secrets
I would think with the pandemic and with nurses being the number 1 most trusted profession (and in dire need) that nursing boards would have compassion toward nurses who are asked to work harder with...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Substance Abuse and Nursing
In 2020, Donna Monticone worked for Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic in Orange, Connecticut where she was responsible for ordering and stocking narcotics. She started to use and...
View ArticleWhat Happened To Nurse Do No Harm?
52-year-old Connie Sneed is charged with a Level 5 felony for practicing medicine without a license in Indiana. Ms. Sneed, who had been with the nursing home for 15-years, posted a comment on a...
View ArticleShould It Take 30 Weeks For A License?
Imagine having your military serving spouse transferred in the middle of a pandemic and you are an Advanced Practice Nurse then having to wait 30 weeks before you can be licensed in your new state?...
View ArticleA HUGE NURSING SHORTAGE
Anyone interested in making money in Georgia? Piedmont Healthcare is offering sign-on bonuses of up to $30,000 to attract nurses to their employ. That hospital system has been relying on expensive...
View ArticleNURSES’ REFUSAL OF COVID VACCINES
I had great trepidation to write this article because it is so controversial among many nurses. However, in my desire to share with you real world happenings, I chose to go ahead to write about this...
View ArticlePolarity Between Medical and Nursing Boards
In California, there was a proposed legislation that would add 2 seats so that a majority of members for the Medical Licensing Board would be consumers rather than doctors. This is an interesting...
View ArticleRADONDA VAUGHT’S DAY IN COURT
In a previous article, I reported on RaDonda Vaught, a Tennessee nurse who was ordered to give versed to a patient undergoing a PET scan but instead administered vecuronium through a medication mix-up....
View ArticleCriminal Prosecution of Healthcare Providers
Last week I talked about RaDonda Vaught getting her day in court. However, I forgot to note at that time that The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA) has a position paper regarding...
View ArticleRADONDA VAUGHT LOSES HER LICENCE
As we have been following the story of RaDonda Vaught for some time, we’ve learned that she had her hearing before the Tennessee Board of Nursing. She made a medication error causing death. Ms....
View ArticleDo Peer Assistance Programs Support Nursing?
In a recent article on MedPage Today the question is asked, “Are peer assistance programs defective and harmful to nurses”? The article specifically discussed recent issues regarding the recovery and...
View ArticleNurses Required to Participate Against Religious Objections
The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVM Medical Center) for forcing their pro-life nurses to participate in abortions. Even if a...
View ArticleNursing License Scam
Last year I wrote a couple of blogs about scams taking place against nurses in Idaho and Missouri. Well, now it’s hitting closer to home and is reaching into Indiana. The office of the Indiana...
View ArticleNo Vaccine May Equal No License
The Oregon State Board of Nursing proposed new rules that would require nurses to be vaccinated as a condition for being licensed. Similarly, the Quebec Order of Nurses announced that their nurses...
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