Empowering Nurses at the Bedside and in Business

Archive: Dec 2023

You Cannot Fail!

I often hear from nurses, “I’m really afraid that I’m going to fail in my business.”  But the truth be known that you cannot fail!. Failing is never starting or giving up just when they’re about to make it big. I believe there is no failing in business.  It’s all about learning opportunities and if you have a good business […]

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Criminal Matters Against EMTs

  There have been two different notable criminal matters against EMTs. The first involved Elijah McClain of Colorado, a massage therapist who apparently was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Police noticed he was listening to music on his headphones and thought he appeared suspicious and stopped him and used a control technique, kind of like a carotid […]

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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 […]

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Radonda Vaught Loses License Appeal

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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 […]

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Being Guilt Tripped By Your Employer?

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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 […]

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