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Gender Pay Gap in Nursing: Changes in 2017 Salary Survey vs. 2015?

Over the past couple of years, several studies and surveys have revealed that there is a gender gap in nursing salaries.

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Injection Gone Wrong: Part Two

This is part two of a story about a nurse who received a flu shot in her left shoulder joint and the almost two year battle she has fought to get something done, and to heal. Her name has been changed but her story is real. Part three to follow...

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Organ and Tissue Donation: The Facts of Donating Life

Blunt trauma to the head, subarachnoid hemorrhage, anoxic brain injury following prolonged CPR. Let’s withdraw support. But should we? Is he brain dead? Maybe…or maybe not? Did someone make the call?

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Exhausted No More! How to Sleep Your Way Into Optimal Health

Welcome to installment #19 of the A to Z for a Rocking Retirement. S = SLEEP. Hi Mary – how’s it going? Hi Judi – I’m exhausted. Mary says – ME TOO! Sound familiar? I hear this every day, especially from my nurse friends who are living with over-work syndrome.

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Hospice Nurses and Social Workers: Hand in Hand

In this article the author describes the important working relationship between hospice nurses and medical social workers. The team approach is what makes hospice care so complete.

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Brave or just stupid?

I am yet another mid-life career-changer. I’ve been afraid to even post on this board, as I believe I will get attacked by all the nursing traditionalists. But I would like the opinions of the experienced, and I can’t get them without putting myself out there.

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How would you react? Body odor discussion.

I am currently suspended for having a conversation regarding body odor with a patient and 2 daughters. I had asked if she had any other deodorant because the one she had wasn't effective.

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