In Baton Rouge Louisiana last week a nurse was trying to assist another nurse who was being attacked by a patient on a behavioral health floor. Last year a nurse was attacked and held hostage in Ohio. Nurses and other medical staff are frequently the source of patient violence and sometimes coworker violence. Does anything …
Category: Healthcare workers
Your opinion is yours and not to share…
Lots of patients end up at our doorstep its what keeps us working and pays the bills. Have you ever stopped to take inventory of personal bias? Yesterday I wrote about “fat shaming” which to a certain degree we need to discuss weight with people who have a BMI over 28. We need to make …
What is moral injury (burnout) like…
This is graphic, it is pain and hurt coming out, Read at your own peril It was Wednesday when my boss called me to his office for a little “chat.” Lisa had come up with another list of complaints (she was getting quite good at these since I think she spent more time watching me …
Yeah, I am “that provider…”
Obviously, I have experience as a nurse and have moved on to become a nurse practitioner. In that program, we spend a great deal of time both with assessment and diagnostics (obviously since in the end we will ordering some type of treatment). Well, I developed chest pain in the afternoon that was very sharp …