Category: Empowered Nurses

I attended a four-day event about breaking free of the rules that stop you from having the life that you want to lead. When I first had the idea to have an organization for nurses that would empower them, it was really scary to me because I usually help people one-on-one but to help an entire profession was a little […]

Do you ever think “you can’t fight city hall” or that change is not possible? Hospitals will always be the way they are.  If I say something, they won’t listen.  You may want to rethink your thinking.  Change can happen and begins with one person. You may have read my recent article about lessons learned from MTV’s “Scrubbing In” program. […]

I am so excited to share this really cool resource with you.  Recently, I was at the Sigma Theta Tau Conference in Indianapolis where I picked up a book titled “The Nerdy Nurse’s Guide To Technology.”  I love the term “nerdy nurse.”  The Nerdy Nurse is actually Brittney Wilson, RN who has a really interesting story about her nursing past […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]