Best In Nurse Blogs: Happy Nurses Week Edition!

The latest edition of the Best In Nurse Blogs-my bi-weekly focus on the best writing by, for, or about Nurses!

Best In Nurse Blogs:

Several nursing blogs this week discuss Nurses Week and the sometimes futile attempts by their employers to let their nurses know they are appreciated as a valued member of the team.

I would say that most nurses would appreciate just that sentiment: being valued….. but on a daily basis, but yes, most appreciate free food, if the nurse bloggers are any indicator of universal preferences…..

Nurses should be respected for the job they do, they should be supported in their attempts to grow their knowledge base, they should be sought out for their opinion and recommendations for improving the delivery of exceptional care, and they should be provided with the tools they need to do their job.  Of course they should be paid a competitive wage for this service.

For nurses to deserve and command this type of respect, requires them to come to work prepared to serve with a smile in their heart.  They should be life long learners striving to improve in both their service and their work ethic.

When this mutual respect is at its best, you’ll have Nurses Week atmosphere every day all year long.  That would be a goal to strive for.

Let’s get started with,

The Best Nurse Blogs

Caveat: Not a Nurse

ePatient Dave has a slide presentation on  patient compliance worth a look, I like the term achievement over compliance too!

Students say the darnedest things

At Your Cervix has a not-to-be-missed list of things discussed in her mid-wife student forum....Sometimes you truly do laugh out loud…

Skateboard?  I’m thinking broken bone…

Get your kid groove on says Kevin Ross at Innovative Nurse.

Alcohol Does The Darnedest things…

Whose hallucinating about which hallucination? I don’t know, but Nurse K can be funny!

Tattoos and Needles

Needle phobias and the extreme tattooed.  A cartoon at ER Nurses Care.

Billionaires Get Special Treatment

JParadisiRN discusses Warren Buffett’s prostate cancer diagnosis.  J points out the dichotomy/contradiction of hoopla/major media outrage over too much treatment/intervention (prostate cancer in elderly) and too little evaluation/early detection (mammograms in your 40′s).{ Yes/that/was/fun!}

Could that be why health care is so expensive?  It’s what I call the Burger King Phenomenon: We all want health care our way, and we want it NOW!  This is why universal health care is a noble but impossible goal in our country. For it to work financially without breaking the country we will HAVE to establish guidelines limiting diagnostic testing,  and access to certain treatments, both medications and surgery (so-called best practices).  Unlike in other countries, I  don’t think Americans will allow grandma to die without intervention even with her terminal illness or to go without dialysis when she has 18 chronic medical conditions.  Who  is this unelected board and how can they tell me how to treat my Momma….  (OK, I will get off my soap-box now.)  Everyone will demand every known treatment every time or they will get on Twitter or 60 Minutes and cry about Granny abuse…. (well, maybe I won’t get off my soap-box, it’s my soap-box.)  And without serious liability reform, no physician is ever going to limit diagnostic testing, it ain’t happening…

OK, sorry, back to the blogs….

Pleasure Island, Hmmm, I’d like to go there…

Yoga Nurse discusses self-care, both our  lack of proper self care  and its treatment.

Welcome!

We welcome jeanhill, a new writer,  at Toronto Emerg’s blog: Those Emergency Blues: Senior staff first in line for breaks is the topic.

Malpractice Prevention:

Keeping lawyers away, is Barbara’s objective at the Nurse Practitioners Business Blog.

The Lonely Nurse

The lone nurse can be a lonely place says Joni at Nursetopia.… I assumed the title meant in a clinical situation, but the boardroom is probably a more frightening place to someone who hasn’t been there.   Many folks sitting around board room tables really are looking for rubber stamps rather than genuine input and opinions.  Just my opinion…having been in a lot of boardrooms…

Miracle Disappearing Tumor

The Nerdy Nurse describes her vanishing brain tumor and the not so nice sequelae of proving its absence.

If you missed it?

Check out another in Cil’s series of interviews with Nurse leaders and entrepreneurs, this one with Robin Menefee, highlighting her leadership training.

Happy Nurses Day, (early)

And in closing, Nurse Keith at Digital Doorway wishes you would treat yourself the way you think you should be treated for National Nurses Day.  Don’t forget to check out RNFM Radio, hosted by Keith and his buds every Monday evening.

Thanks for reading.

And if you have a Nurse related blog not on my blogroll you want to promote, just leave the URL with a comment below.  We are always looking for new nursing blogs to promote.

Happy Nurses Week!

Dean and Cil

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