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A Phone Call Brought Good News to Me, but not to Everyone by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing In a previous post I revealed that I had been identified as part of an at-risk group made up of patients who had surgery at a big city hospital during a six-month span of ... Read on »

Are Passion and a Calling Pre-requisites for Being a Good Nurse? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Several years of news about the nursing shortage, and now the recession, has made nursing a popular career choice. And, it is a popular choice for those seeking a second ... Read on »

Question for Nurses: Will You be an Organ Donor? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Today I noticed a question on a nursing forum asking how nurses feel about organ transplantation. The questioner wants to know if nurses would be donors and would they do ... Read on »

The Possibility of Hepatitis C Through No Fault of My Own by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Back in December I was scheduled for surgery at a big-city hospital and doing a lot of hand wringing in this blog as I worried about the possibility that C. diff, a nasty ... Read on »

Nurse Dramas---Helping or Hurting? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I’m surprised by my interest in and excitement about the new nurse-centered TV dramas, Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe (and Mercy projected to debut in the fall lineup). I su ... Read on »

From Military Medic to Mainstream Nurse: A Few Changes Could Ease Nurse Shortage by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing A large aging population coupled with too few nurses being educated equals a massive shortage of nurses. There’s nothing new about that equation. Possible solutions for a ... Read on »

Will Health Care Reform Exacerbate the Nursing Shortage? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing The subject of health care reform is talked about in every sort of media outlet. Newspapers and TV news programs are rife with reports of what is or isn’t happening in th ... Read on »

Did Anyone Notice National Nurses Week? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I get pumped up over National Nurses’ Week. No one is sending me gifts, treating me to a spa day or honoring me at a special dinner but I like that there are nurses who ar ... Read on »

Is This School Perpetuating an Unprofessional Nursing Image? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Recently, I read a comment on an online nursing forum regarding the female writer’s newly issued student uniform and her displeasure with it. She included a photo of the u ... Read on »

How and When Will More Nursing School Applicants be Accommodated? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Once again, a painful truth hurts more because it has become personal. What now? It’s the shortage of places in nursing programs for qualified applicants. My friend, Sue, ... Read on »

New Administration Conducts Summit Addressing Health Reform by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Things might be looking up for the nursing profession, thanks to the new administration in Washington. On March 5, 2009, American Nurses Association (ANA) president, Rebec ... Read on »

Using H.E.A.R.T. to Address Patient Issues by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing If nurses would only show a little heart when dealing with difficult situations involving patients and families, it is likely that ruffled feathers could quickly be smooth ... Read on »

The Truth About Nursing: Changing How the World Thinks About Nursing by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing The Truth About Nursing (TTAN) is a new, Maryland-based non-profit organization that promotes nursing by insisting on accurate portrayals of the profession by all media, b ... Read on »

The Dilemma of Long Term Care for the Elderly Deaf by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I don’t like to think of myself as living in a bubble, unaware of the plight of others, but sometimes an issue is brought to my attention and I am dismayed to realize that ... Read on »

Recruiting of Nurses Includes Lavish Enticements by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Wow, how times have changed! The stiff competition among hospitals and other health care entities to attract a share of the short supply of nurses has resulted in a spate ... Read on »

Death: Let's Talk About It by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Death, despite its inevitability, is often not spoken about, let alone planned for. To get people talking about this subject, the sister-in-law of a young mother who died ... Read on »

The Sky is Falling---or is It? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I’m beginning to feel a bit like Chicken Little—and, on top of that, more than a little confused. I had breakfast with my oncology nurse friend, Rita, a few days ago and ... Read on »

C. diff is Putting a Pall on My Hospital Holiday by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I admit it. This renegade C. diff bug that is running amok in hospitals has me more than a little freaked out. No sooner had I posted to this blog about the uber-nasty ger ... Read on »

A Super-Bug of Increasing Concern by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Hand hygiene is in the news again, this time as part of the antidote for the much bigger news story, the nasty gut bug Clostridium difficile (C. diff). Largely hospital a ... Read on »

The Nursing Home Dilemma: Should We, or Shouldn't We? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing For as far back as I can remember I have heard elderly and not-so-elderly relatives try to elicit promises from family members that a nursing home will not be in their fut ... Read on »

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