So we all know that nurse have a love-hate relationship with “medical shows” on TV. The good news is there is at least one thing to love.
Is there an ‘I’ in team?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 05, 2019
We’ve all heard it: “There is no ‘I’ in team.” But I challenge that.
Fear of intimacy
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 07, 2017
Intimacy … I’m not writing about where one partner is hounding the other about fear of opening up and getting close. What do they say — “It’s me, not you”? What I am writing...
The transformative power of happiness
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 29, 2022
It seems almost daily we are hit by news where someone or something is trying to rob us of our happiness. We barely survived the pandemic while losing our staff and having to deal with an agency that will...
I pay dead people
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 12, 2013
On Oct. 31 (an ironic coincidence?) a report from the Office of inspector General frighteningly said Medicare paid some $23 million in benefits for more than 17,000 dead people in 2011. And my husband...
Test and tests and tests… there’s failure here
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 01, 2022
Let’s face it. Unless you’re the character Sheldon from the show “The Big Bang Theory” or “Young Sheldon,” most of us really hate to take tests. So, those of us in this profession got a little...
Ignoring the old impulses
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 18, 2017
So, I have this song from Disney’s animated film “Frozen” stuck in my head. The part of the song that goes, “Let it go, let it go …” See, that’s how I feel about...
Excessive citation?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 16, 2019
A man was recently charged with animal cruelty after abandoning his pet fish Oscar. Yep, you read that right, a fish. Not some exotic fish in expensive tanks, but a fish in a bowl. The guy had been evicted...
Nurse, will you hear me?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 27, 2015
There was a recent New York Times op-ed piece titled “Doctor, Shut Up and Listen.” Basically, it took you through a case about a woman who was having symptoms of a rapid heartbeat and feeling...
Honor thy mother and father
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jul 11, 2011
My Mom’s biggest fear is that she will get Alzheimer’s disease and become a burden to me. If Mom would ever realize that fear, I would do everything to ensure that I honored her. I know what...