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Beth Jasper, a registered nurse at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati was one of the few nurses at that facility who was certified to work on the dialysis machines in the bone marrow transplant unit.  In 2011, Jewish Hospital came under the ownership of Mercy Health Partners of Southwest Ohio and subsequently made staffing cuts.  Beth’s working hours routinely and significantly exceeded the […]

There are always going to be people who are smarter, healthier, skinnier and wealthier than you.  The only equalizer is time.  We all have 24 hours in a day.  Time is the only equal playing field. It is what we do with those two dozen hours that separates us as individuals.  Couple that thought with a study in England that […]

  When I learned MTV was to air the show titled “Scrubbing In,” I was not sure what to expect.  I thought it would be great to have a program that would accurately depict what nurses actually do.  However, once I learned it was a reality TV show, I had some genuine concerns. I don’t like to say anything negative […]

Recently I have had a number of clients come to me with issues regarding their licenses.  In every one of those cases, the reason why this was an issue with the client was because they were afraid to say “no!”  However, you can’t be effective with your patients unless you take care of yourself first.  Sometimes you just have to […]

Celia was a 12-year RN and a busy operating room nurse, devoting herself totally to the hospital and often volunteering for weekend shifts. She was asked to fill in for several months for the weekend charge nurse and that’s when her troubles began. She was not given any direction on how to perform the duties and didn’t know she was […]

According to the dictionary, a person is empowered if they have the authority or power to do something.  You might call to mind some of the famous people who were empowered, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. or Florence Nightingale; even Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.  King’s peace movement spurred integration.  Nightingale founded the modern nursing school while Mandela and […]

Two recent nursing school graduates who rebounded from youthful cocaine and drunken driving convictions have been granted probationary licenses, while several other local nurses face disciplinary action for drug abuse and lying. Nurses are more prone to drug abuse than workers in other occupations because “they have more access to drugs and they have a lot of stress,” said Lorie […]

People ask me why I went into law from nursing.  It is not a divine plan, I simply got divorced and had a great attorney and said to myself, “I can do this.”  But really, it is the best thing that I have ever done.  I get to combine two fields that I love and both involve taking care of […]

Last summer in Toledo, Ohio, Susan Fudacz was waiting for a kidney being donated by her younger brother, Paul Fudacz, Jr.  They were a perfect match and Susan was excited to get a new lease on life with her brother’s gift. When Susan woke from anesthesia, she noticed that she had no incision.  It turns out that a nurse mistakenly […]

When I started in nursing, I heard an expression:  “Nurses eat their young!” “Nurses eat their young!”  I could not believe it!  How could nurses eat their young?  What does this even mean? An interesting thing about the expression is that almost every nurse you talk to will know the saying.  I Googled the phrase and found that it is […]