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One liner to diffuse escalating situation with patient I recently had a patient in the ED who did have a lot of pain from her 1mm kidney stone. Understandable. However, the drama and borderline traits exhibited by her and her husband were highly disruptive to the staff... Read More

The Elephant In The Room and Evidenced Based Practice Our directors are very fond of saying "evidenced based practice" when telling us what to do..like hourly rounding, bedside report, safety huddles, etc. etc. I usually have no problem with any of this. I'm a "go with the flow" type of person. Read More

The Emotional Work of Nursing There are some things nurses do behind the scenes that people never know. Read this story to find out what Nurse Tiffany did when her patient Bryan was at end of life, and the plan of care was not going like it should. Read More

A 1 in 110 nurse! It's been all over the news and I saw lots of nasty comments on Facebook last night about how the teachers and parapros must have been "gossiping" or "on their phones" and neglecting the students for this child to have been hanging on the monkey bars long enough to have asphyxiated. Read More

Developing X-ray Vision: Caring for Difficult Patients Do you sometimes struggle with taking care of angry, belligerent, difficult patients? This article looks at some practical strategies for pushing through those hard situations with professionalism. Read More

Working for free? How often do you use the "cancel meal deduction" option before clocking out? During our employee orientation, the HR rep talked to us specifically about taking advantage of this. She said: "even if someone asks you a question while you are on your break, cancel your meal deduction-because your break was interrupted." Read More