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...
It was 55 degrees in Sochi while we were expecting Snowmageddon
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 18, 2014
This one is subtitled “Nursing facility personnel are essential and other things the world wasn’t anticipating.” Yes, while the temperature unexpectedly rose in Sochi, Russia, making...
The Walking (Half-) Dead
By
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...
Time again for the most imaginative call-out excuse
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 03, 2016
It’s time again for the nearly annual “most imaginative reason to call-out” blog. What is the most imaginative call-out you have ever received by somebody wanting to take a day off work?...
You know you’re a nurse when …
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 30, 2012
OK, I can’t help myself. I’m in an incredibly silly mood as I sit to write my blog today. And I was thinking about how we as nurses see the world differently from “normal” folks....
How old is too old to work?
By
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?
The kindness of strangers, and friends
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 13, 2018
I have been very touched by the outpouring of kindness from readers, both whom I know and others I don’t, since my father’s passing a couple of weeks ago.
You can’t keep a good nurse down
Jul 26, 2016
Alice Graber started during World War II and kept at it until last month. Now, the retired nurse is going to volunteer at … well, you’re not going to believe it.
Come to the table the right way
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 12, 2019
If we’re not even defining family at our homes, what the heck are we doing around the table at our facilities?
Sweat equity
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 06, 2023
Recently I had a bone density scan. And, yup, I am at the age where, sure enough, I have osteopenia (reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis). And my doctor said if I don’t take steps...