Category: Empowered Nurses

As nurses, we feel like we have to do everything ourselves.  We are conditioned that if we ask for help, somehow, we are weak. We are also conditioned that if we speak up, we will get in trouble and some of us may not be conditioned but have a fear of speaking up.    In the dynamic and challenging world of […]

I hear from so many nurses that they are working short staffed and in dangerous conditions.  For example, some nurses are asked to falsify charting, others complain about how they are treated by administration and coworkers and there are many other troublesome situations. If you are working in a toxic work environment, please consider leaving.  As I often say, you […]

If someone wants to talk to you and calls your cell phone, you can ignore the phone call and send it to voicemail. If they want to talk in person, we don’t need to answer the door. However, when it comes to your employer, the police or an investigator, we feel obligated to talk. Just know, you have the right […]

  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 […]

  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 […]