Nurses intuition.
This post is more of a question to you, the readers, than it is a definitive statement. My question is this: what is a nurse to do when there’s a conflict between her clinical suspicion and a doctor’s orders? I vividly remember an incident that occurred on a surgical floor when I first started in [...]
- March 10th, 2010
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Why we all need a financial planner.
I am the first person to admit that while I can cut into your chest and crossclamp your aorta within about 2 minutes, I cannot balance a checkbook. I make a mean souffle, but my eyes cross whenever I try to enter even a month’s worth of expenditures into Quicken. Since I plan on toddling [...]
- March 3rd, 2010
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Are more nursing degrees too much?
In October, at the Blogworld Expo I had the privilege of hearing “Nurse Ratched” who blogs at her site Nurse Ratched’s Place speak on a panel. The most fascinating thing she discussed (at least to me) was a phenomenon she noted of nurses always undercutting other nurses. She had written a blog post about it [...]
- December 8th, 2009
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Thankful for modern medicine
Before diving into yet another dry, overcooked holiday fowl this week, I am going to give thanks for getting to attend an old fashioned, rockstar-worthy, hotel-room-destroying party last Sunday night. We arrived kind of late and the two other party goers with me kept staring out the car window pouting because they thought we’d arrive [...]
- November 25th, 2009
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Debt consolidation and collection agencies
Nurses CAN talk turkey to collection agencies! In the last post I told you to avoid debt consolidation agencies, but I really want you to understand why and not think I’m just prejudiced against these financial behemoths. It seems like it would be such a wonderful relief to be able to hand over all those [...]
- November 11th, 2009
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Debt consolidation and debt settlement – avoid the scammers
There are hundreds of telemarketers/e-mail spammers/billboards promoting debt consolidation sites. Sounds great right? Like the debt fairy might come and wipe away all your monthly payments into a consolidation as dense as a black hole. And we all know that black holes are really, really tiny. But the reality is that if your credit has [...]
- November 7th, 2009
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Debt consolidation – First steps
It’s been said that the best trauma surgeons have a slower pulse when shit hits the fan rather than the ultra-tachycardia that us mortals achieve when chaos begins. I’ve thought about that a lot lately when I watch the news and see job loss rates in the tens of thousands, month after month. And when [...]
- November 6th, 2009
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