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Turkey, Sweet Potatoes, and Living Wills
By Christine Moffa, MS, RN, AJN clinical editor by controltheweb/via Flickr When I was growing up, my family spent Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother’s house. She was a star in the kitchen, with...
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Placenta Facebook Photos: Nurse and Mommy Tribes See Student Expulsion...
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor in chief Many of you may be familiar with the recent “nursing-in-the-news” topic involving nursing students and a placenta. (For those who’ve been out of touch, here it is...
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The Real Criminals Here: Justice is Served in Winkler County, Texas,...
Image via Wikipedia By Maureen ‘Shawn’ Kennedy, AJN editor in chief On January 13, news from Texas let nurses everywhere take heart that, sometimes, the system works. According to a report by the...
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When Patient Safety Trumps All: Conversations With the Texas Whistleblower...
Image via Wikipedia By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief You may not remember February 11, 2010, all that well, but it’s a date nurse Anne Mitchell will never forget. It was the date she was...
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Tragedy into Policy: A Hepatitis C Outbreak and a Study of Nevada RNs Lead to...
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor In 2008, more than 62,000 people who had undergone procedures at one of two southern Nevada endoscopy clinics were notified that “they might have been exposed to...
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The Perception Treadmill: Has Nursing’s Status Really Gone Anywhere?
Treadmill/Image via Wikipedia By Margaret Gallagher, BSN, RN. Margaret is a cardiovascular nurse currently working in Georgia. Her last post for this blog was “Return on Investment: A Mother Makes Her...
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Patient Privacy and Company Policy: What Nurses Should Know About Social Media
Should you be able to have an online discussion about hospital policies that aren’t working or are unfair? What if the point of your discussion is to improve working conditions or to troubleshoot and...
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Physician-centric vs. Patient-centric?
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Last week, we posted here a piece by AJN’s clinical managing editor Karen Roush, decrying the use of the term “physician extender.” It reminded me of a recent...
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Boards of Nursing and the Amanda Trujillo Case
By Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Amanda Trujillo Our prior post on the Amanda Trujillo case elicited many comments, on a variety of themes. There were also referrals and crosslinks to...
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What to Do If the Nursing Board Takes Action Against You: A Lawyer and Former...
At 7 AM, when RN Michelle Flacco took over the care of 66-year-old Lester Scanlon, who had dementia and type 1 diabetes, she was notified that his blood glucose level was significantly elevated, at...
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