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Long-Term Care Managers Allowing Cellphone Use at Work: Just Stop It!
Logically, cellphones should make our existence more efficient and knowledgeable. But like everything else, they only accomplish positive goals if they are used correctly. Presently, in our day, for the most part, cellphones allow us to order our personal world according to our most base desires. No matter who we encounter throughout our day, we…
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Narcissist Nurse Aides in Long-Term Care: Part 2
Like many nurse aides, I have endured toxic workplace environments created by a particular aide profile for many years. In fact, as terrible as COVID was, there was something good about it; those aides with the profile I am talking about stayed home. Why? Well, why wouldn’t they? The government was literally paying nurse aides…
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Narcissist Nurse Aides in Long-Term Care: Part 1
Many argue that there is really no nurse shortage in healthcare, but nurses have stopped working, or leave the profession as fast as nursing schools graduate new nurses. In fact, statistics show that at least 50% of new nurses leave the profession within 2 years. This same lack of retention is true for nurse aides…
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Metaphysics, America, Long-Term Care, and The Cellphone Crusades
An AI Overview gives us a good definition of Metaphysics, it is the foundational branch of philosophy investigating the fundamental nature of reality, existence, and being. Metaphysics has several different fields of study that all contribute to the comprehensive idea of metaphysics. One is Ontology, the study of reality and how it is perceived by…
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Nurse Erica’s Take on Alex Pretti: Advocate or Political Hack?
Enough is enough. Nurses should know we need to tread very softly on politics, if at all. Why? Because everyone knows that the healthcare work environment is already toxic enough. If we can learn to respect each other and be civil at work, maybe we can add politics, but until then, I don’t recommend it.…
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It’s About Trust, Not Free Speech
For the Xenia, Ohio School Board, It Should be a Matter of Trust, Not Free Speech RE: Two educators placed on administrative leave pending investigation. Public servants like doctors, nurses, police officers, teachers, and judges, only qualify as such if they can be trusted. What does that mean? It means they can be trusted…
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The Misuse of Ativan in LTC
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Overcoming the Nursing Crisis
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Medication Administration and the Myth of Multitasking
I love my new Chevy Colorado pickup truck. But one day, as I put some items in the back jumper seats, and proceeded to my destination, upon parking and turning off the engine, a surprising alert message appeared on the dashboard along with a chime that said, “Rear Seat Reminder Look in Rear Seat.” What’s…
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ABG Imbalances
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Chest Tube Chamber Bubbling
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Med Pass Principles
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A Nursing Old Wives’ Tale: Effective CPR Always Results In Extensive Rib Fractures
Written by Paul M. Dohse, LPN, ADN, CDP. In nurse training, there is a heavy emphasis on fact-based care or “best practice.” However, once nurses are working the floor, little additional research or study takes place, and seemingly, fact-based care, in many cases, is replaced with opinion, ideology, and in more recent times, politics. Nurses…
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Death is NOT Ok
If you are struggling with the death of a loved one, human or pet, please be free. You are not in bondage to “accepting it” or moving on. You are free to never accept it. Don’t worry, the body and mind will adjust and you will adapt through a new homeostasis because part of you…
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Solving ABG Imbalances
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Positive and Negative Baselines in Long-Term Care
Long-term care in America is all but completely broken. This is a result of systemic failure on every level of care. This article is about one of the basics: understanding long-term care patients, usually called long-term care “residents.” Understanding long-term care residents entails the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, otherwise known as “empathy.”…
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