Very often, the nursing progress note documentation is like cotton candy. You think it looks really good but when you get down to it, it’s just a sticky mess! Or, just a bunch of fluff with no substance....
A blessing within the loss
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 27, 2014
This is a very hard blog for me to write. My mother just passed away. It was very sudden and not expected. I am blessed to have two mothers: A step-mother who has been in my life since I have been 8 years...
Hacking goes to new and deadly limits
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 02, 2015
Everyone with a pulse is aware of hacking vulnerability. From insurance companies to major big box stores and even banks, we’d have to be dead if we didn’t realize how unsafe our secure information...
Ahhh, it’s summer… (Run for your life!)
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 10, 2014
The birds are singing, everything is green, people are planning vacations and you are shaking in your boots. Because you know, unlike the rest of the world, that with your job, you’re gonna have...
Ah, spring (cleaning time!)
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 03, 2018
Sometimes we get so stuck in the mud of winter, get so despondent that we forget that spring is right around the corner. Of course, I am talking metaphorically. Often, we forget that we can make changes...
What’s your load? How nurses can lighten med usage
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 23, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration recently requested that practitioners stop prescribing combination prescription pain medications that have more than 325 mg of acetaminophen per tablet, capsule, etc.,...
Multiplying your influence — what it means to mentor
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 30, 2017
Becoming a nurse manager doesn’t just “happen.” (It’s not like, “Poof! You’re a DON!”) Someone took the time to mentor the nurse manager and train her to develop...
A vampire walks into an ER …
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 20, 2015
Since Halloween is just around the corner, I thought this story is apropos. Especially since most nurses don’t question the situations that walk into our workspace. At all.
We all need to breathe
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Dec 30, 2014
Recently, I was at an event where the Pledge of Allegiance was said and started to really concentrate on the words. I asked myself: Are we really one nation, with liberty and justice for all? Why is it...
You can’t build a faster horse
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 04, 2017
I was taking with someone about innovation. They told me about a famous quote from Henry Ford. Supposedly he said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.'”