With Christmas songs still echoing in my head, I bring you original lyrics, with special thoughts of our hard-working long-term care nursing corps in mind.
Give yourself the gift of chilling out this holiday season
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Dec 06, 2017
Taking time to step back and reevaluate how you’re using your time — and if you’re a manager, how your employees are faring this time of year — can pay off big time.
Let nurses take the wheel
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Nov 29, 2017
At the end of the day, who’s really making sure a resident’s move to a skilled nursing facility is the right one?
Ode to The Road Warrior
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 14, 2017
Here’s an original poem I wrote that hits close to home for so many caregivers. I call it “Ode to The Road Warrior.”
Catching nurse impostors — if you can
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Jul 11, 2017
If you’ve ever seen the movie “Catch Me If You Can,” you’ve probably wondered how in the world the protagonist could get away with his scheme of working jobs he had no qualifications...
What I would say to young Nurse Jackie
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 16, 2017
I started thinking: If young Nurse Jackie knew what she would have to go through to get a smile of contentment on her face, would that huge smile turn to a look of horror? Could I have let her know that...
Learning by doing
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 21, 2017
OK, so here is something I totally don’t understand. It has to do with how a lot of nursing staff think about new hires. (Probably Chapter 2 in my imaginary book, “Eating their young / a nurse’s...
C’mon, give me a hug!
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 24, 2017
With so many obscure holidays out there, I notice there is no “National Appreciate a Nurse Day.” Nursing Home Week and Nurses’ Week do not count. I want a day to put on my tiara and not...
Nurse Strom and the comment section conundrum
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Dec 13, 2016
It’s very fitting, and not at all surprising to me, that a story on social media comments has stirred up some of most intense reader response I’ve seen on this site in a while.
Nursing shortage might not be as dire as feared
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Elizabeth Newman
Sep 25, 2015
For the past decade, healthcare experts, including those in long-term care, have been drumming the beat of a looming nursing shortage. A new study details why the shortage might not be as terrible as feared.