Day: March 13, 2019

Why bother prescribing…

On By NurseferatuIn Medications

Perusing the paper this morning brings me to a New York Times article: Good news: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say. In short, my response is, I am not surprised since I spoke about this when I started the blog. This one is likely to be a tad preachy so hang …

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This week’s click bait is crap…

On By NurseferatuIn Nursing Issues, patient Stories

  Someone in a small hospital in Missouri needs to lose their job.  Straight up, you violated HIPPA you need to disclose yourself to the administrator and suffer disciplinary action.  Why? Simple you violated the patient's right to privacy and allowed information about a patient to be reported without his consent.   The video of …

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