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  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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Potential clients need to know, like and trust you before they’re going to work with you.  The whole idea of marketing is so that potential clients can get to know you and decide whether to work with you. Many think, “Oh, I’ll just start a website and people will come to me.” I did a search for Legal Nurse Consultants […]

  Mackenzie Moan was one day feeling very frustrated.  She is a wife and mother of two kids and studying for her PhD.  Her feelings were heightened because of financial struggles.  She and her husband both work in Pennsylvania, he as a security guard and she as a Registered Nurse.  Even though they both make good money, she feels like […]

During that part of my career when I walked the hospital hallways as a Registered Nurse, I would reach my assigned floor to receive report and couldn’t help but hear many colleagues as they complained about patients, the hospital and, in general, our profession.  Immediately I would feel like energy was being drained from my body and I had to […]

  Last week, the jury returned a verdict in the case of Maya Kowalski.  I have previously written about Maya Kowalski, who was a 10-year-old girl at the at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospitals in Tampa, Florida. Maya had suffered from Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and was receiving Ketamine treatments which reduces the sensation of pain even though they […]

  In a recent article by Becker’s Hospital Review, 6 nursing leaders were interviewed as to what initiatives their hospitals are making to improve patient care and work culture.  According to Margarita Baggett, MSN, RN, Chief Clinical Officer for UC San Diego Health, “the aim is to outperform the previous years when it comes to Nurse sensitive indicators.”  These indicators […]

  On August 7, 2023, in Dayton, Ohio, Tristin Kate Smith committed suicide! The worst part of this story is that Tristin, a 28-year-old ER nurse, accused her abuser, healthcare, as the reason for taking her own life.  She confided in detail in a note found on her computer by her father after her death about how she gave her […]