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...
Wait, what did you just say, CMS?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 15, 2022
Keeping up with the constantly changing guidance between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regulations would make even a rocket scientist’s...
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...
Social media: Good vs. Evil?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 09, 2021
With all the nastiness that has been in social media, wouldn’t it be cool to see that social media can also have a good side? Good news: We can.
The worst year ever?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Dec 22, 2020
Was 2020 really “the worst year ever”? Let’s take a closer look. It might open your eyes.
Plan like an 82-game season
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 26, 2020
Can we be honest? I think most people have discipline and instruction totally backward.
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...
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.,...
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.