The Real Nurse Jackie by Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Most creative excuses given not to work
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Dec 01, 2014
Every year I like to ask: What do you feel is the most imaginative call-out you received this past year? We’re totally into interactive blogging, so please note yours below. We had some doozies when...
The schizophrenia of patient-centered care
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 11, 2014
Is it me or sometimes do the wide interpretations within the State Operations Manual (the dreaded “RED book”) make you want to question your entire existence? I mean, we’ve been working...
Bed A and Bed B are people!
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 28, 2014
As a Charlton Heston movie once illustrated in an indirect way, it’s important to know about the lives of who is living in our home. It’s about relationships, not about heads in the beds.
The Walking (Half-) Dead
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 14, 2014
OK, I’ll admit it. I am a huge fan of the AMC show, “The Walking Dead,” which incidentally had a blockbuster Season 5 premier Sunday. It’s really bizarre because I am a big weenie...
A nurse invented that! (But most likely didn’t get credit for it)
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 30, 2014
Nurses have invented some really cool stuff. But most likely they’ve received just pats on the heads for coming up with a “work-around” or a “creative solution.” Then someone...
The fault in our (5) stars
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 19, 2014
So, let me start off by saying that I am sure a lot of us have our own rating systems. For example, my sisters and I have a tissue-box rating system for tearjerker books and movies. The book the “Fault...
Why it really is the most wonderful time of the year
Sep 02, 2014
It’s back to school time. For most of the world, figuring out childcare just got easier. But it isn’t so easy when you have to be at work before school starts, or after it ends AND you’re...
If you want it, YOU have to make it happen!
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Aug 19, 2014
A recent article on Medline Nursing alleged that the average registered nurse (RN) wants more sleep, authority respect and work-life balance. We can get what we want. We just have to learn to “ask”...
How old is too old to work?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Aug 05, 2014
A recent article in Health Affairs centered on nurses delaying retirement and claimed this is boosting the workforce. Should we believe this?
Just say NO — to giving in to patients
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jul 09, 2014
I’m just going to say it: Nurses in long-term care are really guilty when it comes to giving in to patients who want non-clinically necessary treatment. You know what I mean.