tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21929920133652611172023-11-15T05:14:58.733-08:00Nurse KnittyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-24450893896363304492012-05-22T19:13:00.001-07:002012-05-22T19:13:06.317-07:00Nurse - Family RelationshipHealthcare providers are improving delivery thru the use of mobile treatment initiatives. Nurse practitioners, for example, are used to diagnose and delivery healthcare options to an aging population. The role of the family also increases as healthcare providers come closer to home.
Community involvement and recognition aid in healthcare delivery for low-income mothers. Programs that refer low income mother's to long term healthcare providers increases overall healthcare and quality of life reducing child abuse/neglect, smoking and increasing employment for clients.
The cost savings to the healthcare system in the longrun also make such programs more appealing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-526912255298854772012-05-10T00:34:00.001-07:002012-05-10T07:56:31.961-07:00National Nurses Week Infographic!<div align="center"><a href="http://site.mynursinguniforms.com/images/articles/nursing-infographic-rn.jpg"><img width="540px" src="http://site.mynursinguniforms.com/images/articles/nursing-infographic-rn.jpg"></a><p>Courtesy of MyNursingUniforms & <a href="http://www.mynursinguniforms.com/dickies-scrubs.html">Dickies Scrubs</a>.</p><br /><br /><p>Share this:
<form><textarea name="targetme" rows="7" cols="45" onclick="select();"><a href="http://site.mynursinguniforms.com/images/articles/nursing-infographic-rn.jpg"><img src="http://site.mynursinguniforms.com/images/articles/nursing-infographic-rn.jpg"></a><p>Courtesy of MyNursingUniforms &amp; <a href="http://www.mynursinguniforms.com/dickies-scrubs.html">Dickies Scrubs</a>.</p></textarea></form> </p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-91706509891954900812012-03-11T13:37:00.003-07:002012-03-11T13:38:19.577-07:00It could be worse....Nursing as a profession is generally recession proof. Yes, in a privatized healthcare system less money means less people going to the hospital.....Hospitals make less money and have to layoff nurses/workers.<br /><br />But, you could be working in Kenya where 25000 were laid off this past week....I bet they weren't even making a worthy wage to start.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-80009517008454378072012-01-14T19:10:00.000-08:002012-05-22T19:10:35.408-07:00Longterm Health for Short Term $Any of your kids have access to a school nurse? Not only does a school nurse help with minor maladies, he or she will also play a crucial role in educating little ones. Ranging from nutrition to basic personal healthcare, the long term benefits of a well informed young person will ultimately save the system money down the road. The problem is, how do you convince everyone that the cost of a school nurse is worth the money, especially in tough economic times? Few people even consider simple elements of their lives like nutrition (obesity epidemic anyone?) let alone the importance of healthcare education.
The benefits far outweigh the collective cost, but sadly we'll be seeing even more school nurses cut in ensuing years.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-7948823983512135842011-12-20T19:10:00.000-08:002012-05-22T19:11:05.425-07:00Xmas Bonus! How much do you get for overtime?3X the amount? If you have a nice government job as a nurse as say, a prison, and you cash in tons of overtime, you're slated to make tons of cash. This woman made 1/4 of a million a year.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-16/million-dollar-nurses-show-california-s-struggle-to-reduce-payroll-costs.html
What do you get for overtime? The usual? How should State's treat overtime pay for their employees? Yes, we all should get fairly compensated for our worktime, but at the end of the day taxpayers are shelling out big money, that's you and me. When we're in a deficit situation that cash is harder to come by.
Solution?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-60479258358775852592011-12-15T10:35:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:38:55.601-08:00The Value of the School NurseThere was a time when nurses and healthcare providers were active participants in our everyday lives. You could access healthcare in a variety of places, and school was one of them. The benefit was not only improve quality of life, but also a reduction in the overall cost of the healthcare system as fewer individuals accessed health services unnecessarily, and still more had improved education for various health topics.<br /><br />Although the school nurse is still around, the number of students under one nurse has ballooned. Budget cuts force some nurses to have over 15000 students under their care.<br /><br /><br />Some parents even make decisions of which school to send their child based on healthcare provision. Do you?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-53423682181410132422011-11-25T10:39:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:41:19.781-08:00Health Ideas rewarded by Obama AdministrationThe Obama administration has $1 billion of federal funds earmarked from last year's health reform law that will go toward innovation programs designed to boost jobs and improve patient care.<br /><br />Have any ideas? <br /><br />The administration will award grants in March 2012 to people who come up with the best ideas to lift care and save money for those enrolled in the federal healthcare programs Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. THe money is coming from the Affordable Care Act slated to fund a new CMS Innovation Center.<br /><br /><br />To get a grant, projects must start within six months and the program will concentrate on those ideas that spur the most hiring and workforce training.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-65266967986644442172011-11-16T14:12:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:34:55.079-08:00Constitution Clash Over Healthcare Heads to Supreme CourtSome people just hate to see those in need get healthcare. <br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/la-na-healthcare-court-20110929,0,6378627.story<br /><br />The Obama care package is heading to the Supreme Court (the first of various rounds). What's the issue? Afront to civil liberties? Or a civil society taking care of the least among them. We sure know that we haven't been doing a good job of the latter. What's your take?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-19055191408765095102011-09-24T14:06:00.000-07:002011-11-16T14:10:06.736-08:00Ever Striked as a Nurse?23 000 nurses in California his the streets for a one day strike to send a message to three hospital employers that RNs will not accept reductions in patient services or cuts to nurses and other caregivers.<br /><br />The members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United walked out. They are making 200 demands to counter Sutter executives that would:<br /><br /> Restrict their ability to effectively advocate for patients<br /> Effectively force nurses to work when sick, dangerously exposing extremely ill patients to infection.<br /> Sharply reduce nurses’ healthcare coverage and retiree health benefits.<br /> The Sutter RNs are also protesting years of widespread cuts in patient care services <br /><br /><br />Have you ever striked as a nurse? If so what were the circumstances?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-37193381833991921012011-08-01T10:48:00.000-07:002011-08-01T10:48:00.744-07:00America's Underfunded State healthcare<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/draghi/Pension%20Underfudninf.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 966px; height: 888px;" src="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/draghi/Pension%20Underfudninf.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />It's not good, not good at all. But thankfully Republicans have the solution which involves cutting healthcare, medicare, and of course corporate taxes<br /><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mapping-americas-underfunded-state-pension-and-healthcare-liability-debacle"><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mapping-americas-underfunded-state-pension-and-healthcare-liability-debacle</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-72456294825436004742011-07-29T10:30:00.001-07:002011-07-29T10:48:01.799-07:00The Healing Power of NursesNurses are not only on the front line when it comes to healthcare, they're also usually the provider patients see the most often during their stay at a hospital or even a clinic. <br /><br />That highlights the necessity of providing health care. Ok, that's so obvious. However, the type of care is starting to matter. Treatment doesn't just involve the facts of the ailment, yet the <span style="font-weight:bold;">holistic</span> healthcare experience for the patient.<br /><br />Nurses who offer healthcare that goes beyond merely pills and measurements are starting to notice noticeable improvements in patients. <br /><br /><br />http://blog.mynursinguniforms.com/index.php/nurses-put-caring-back-into-healthcare/<br /><br />The simply act of caring improves not only patient experience, but empirically noted to speed up recovery.<br /><br />of course there's a differentiation between offering a 'hotel' service at hospital, and offering holistic healthcare. <br /><br />Healthcare focus is changing in hospitals to encourage different methods of healthcare provision. <br /><br />Patients can help this process by supporting their nurses who work a tireless and highly stressful job. That goes a long way to help make a stressed patient receive the care they require and usually deserve.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2192992013365261117.post-75460693013412543052007-01-28T15:54:00.000-08:002012-02-28T15:55:00.794-08:00A Journey into NursingOnce upon a time there was a young girl who wanted to be a doctor. She even wrote about it in first grade. Especially because then she could be the one giving the shots. All through high school she still thought about being a doctor, she even volunteered in a hospital, but never really envisioned her dream as a reality and life came in and swept her up and she ended up doing all kinds of other things that had nothing to do with medicine.<br /><br />Many years later, as she was expecting her first child, her mother came to visit her for Christmas. When her mother arrived the Wannabe realized that something was very wrong. Her initial impression was that her mother may have had a stroke. Her mom would sit in the same position for hours, not realizing that time had passed. One day it took her 5 hours to get ready. She was also losing control of her bladder functions. So on the day after Christmas the Wannabe's mother in law drove them to the hospital.<br /><br />Once in the ER there was a 2 hour wait to even be triaged (you wrote down what was wrong with you on a piece of paper and turned that in to the nurse, who then decided what order you would be triaged in). But once in triage Wannabe's mom was immediately given a bed in the ER. A CT scan was ordered and the dubious "shadow" showed up. Wannabe's mom was transferred upstairs (med/surg) where no one felt like they should tell Wannabe anything. She had to fight really hard to be sure that her mom was treated well. Eventually she was able to find the Doc (who rounded at 5:30am) who said "Your mom has cancer" and Wannabe was like "She has cancer and she had a stroke?" Oh, the shadows on Mom's brain are the cancer...<br /><br />Then Wannabe's mom was transferred to the Oncology floor and the new Doc called (a 7 mos pregnant) Wannabe at home at 7:30pm and said "If we don't start Chemotherapy right now your mom will die within the week" So of course we started the chemo. And Mom wilted, it made her much sicker than she was. And one day, on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Wannabe asked a nice nurse if she could just explain what was going on with her mom.<br /><br />The nurse was so loving and kind and she read Wannabe the chart in English. Basically, Wannabe's mom had Stage IV lung cancer, it was everywhere in her body: lungs, lymph, breast, skin, blood, and brain. There is no coming back from it says the nurse, she is terminal. Something the Doc had never thought to say. And the nurse helps to arrange hospice care.<br /><br />Less than two months after diagnosis Wannabe's mom dies. One week to the day after that, Wannabe's son is born 3 weeks early via c-section. Again she encounters some amazing nurses. And one day she wakes up and realizes...It is the nurses who give the shots! The nurses are the ones who really give the care and make a difference in peoples lives. All this time she has wasted thinking that she would have to go through hoops to go to medical school with a husband and a child, but no, she could go to nursing school.<br /><br />And that is the story of how I got my head out of my butt and realized what is truly important to me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0