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Why HIPAA Laws Exist: Careless Disposal of PHI, RX pads, and Medications

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While browsing the Goodwill tweeter @Potato_Chip found a box of Journal of American Medical Associations. A sweet find for an MD/PhD student right? Unfortunately, it turned out to be bittersweet though for the healthcare industry and patient advocates everywhere. In that very same box were discarded drugs, prescription pads, and ultra sound records. Many of these records, including ultrasounds, had patient identifiers or protected health information (PHI) intact.

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High Fives in Healthcare: Taking Time to Celebrate Your Victories

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I sincerely hope you still feel the rush of endorphins when you get a successful IV stick. I encourage you to smile, be proud, and ask your co-worker for a high five (after a good hand washing of course) the next time you change a particularly challenging dressing. Turn to the side and tell the nurse beside you how excited you are that your patient made the transfer from the bed to the chair successfully. Heck, share with your patient how excited you are that their kidneys produced an adequate amount of volume of the shift. I can’t tell you how happy I’ve had patients get when I complement their kidneys and acknowledge their bodies success and our collective success of a productive and healing shift.

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Integrity & Clinical Judgement: You Can’t Buy it at Walmart

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You expect a nurse to have integrity and use good clinical judgement, but not every one does. It’s even possible that not everyone can. Judgement is subjective, and even though the it is the goal for any prudent nurse to give the same level of care as another, it just doesn’t always happen that way.

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10 Things I will Miss from Bedside Care Nursing: Reflections as I move to an Administrative Role

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My colleagues have been quite upset with the fact that I don’t plan on working PRN in bedside care. Some of them feel I wasting my nursing degree to move away from bedside care and into informatics. I will miss many things about bedside care nursing, but I know that I will be able to much better serve patients in my new role as a Clinical Informatics Specialist.

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Nerdy Scrubs: Where Technology and Uniforms Merge

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High Technology scrubs are great for nerdy doctors and nurses who understand the importance of infection control in their offices, hospitals, nursing homes and clinics. They understand that these medical uniforms will protect them, their loved ones and their patients as well as save their hospital money from costly infections and lawsuits.

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Hop On Facebook and Review Your Nurse!

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Didn’t you know it’s the latest trend in healthcare? You can sit in you family members room and make statements about the care your loved one is receiving on that hospital’s Facebook page. You can also mention specific nurses by name and discuss your like or dislike for them. Sure would be nice if there were headshots of each nurse on that Facebook page so you could just put a thumbs up or a thumbs down on the nurses. That would make the public degrading of them so much easier. Sure you can do this, but should you? With social

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It’s That Time of Year Again: Hospital Competencies

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  I’m not sure how other hospitals do it, because I have only worked in one; but every year we have this thing called competencies. What are competencies? Basically all the nurses in the hospital are corralled into a room over a series of a week or so and have to “check off” at various stations. Not that it takes a whole week to do it, you just have several days over that week in which you can attend. The stations have a nurse or member of administration staffing them and cover various topics related to practice on the floor.

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