Shouting into the void…

Do you ever feel that way?  Like you are shouting, and you don’t even hear your echo?  Well, welcome to me on this topic about medication errors and the Vanderbilt Nurse, RaDonda Vaught. Ok, what the actual hell is going on here? Why is she being charged with murder?  The whole NPR article is here: …

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Welcome to the graveyard shift…

The 'graveyard watch' version of the phrase was generally used by sailors on watch - hardly a group in a position to supervise buried coffins. The graveyard link was made explicit in this definition, offered by the American mariner Gershom Bradford, in A Glossary of Sea Terms, 1927: "Graveyard watch, the middle watch or 12 …

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This week’s click bait is crap…

  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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Zen and the art of nursing maintenance…

Don’t worry we are not going to do motorcycle maintenance we are, however, going to chat about nursing Zen. The original book was written by Robert Pirsig in 1974 about a trip he took with his son Chris who was 12 in 1968 on a Motorcycle.  Robert died in 2017, and Chris died in 1979.  …

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