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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 »

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 »

A Whack on the Head Stirs Compassion by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Earlier this year my husband came home from the gym to find me sitting in a chair in our family room, staring blankly into space, the right side of my face red and swollen ... Read on »

And, You Think Yours is a Long Commute! by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing I suppose because it is something out of the ordinary, I am fascinated with the idea of nurses traveling long distances to their jobs. And, I mean long distance to the ext ... Read on »

Are Nurses Adquately Prepared to Communicate Adverse Drug Effects to Patients? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Believe it or not, there is still controversy regarding whether to inform patients of possible adverse drug effects (ADE) when a new (to the patient) drug is prescribed. W ... 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 »

Are We Asking or Avoiding Questions about Domestic Violence? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Nurses have an opportunity, or, more accurately, an obligation, to make a difference in curbing domestic violence. Doing so requires only a simple action—just ask. I see t ... Read on »

Are You a Good Samaritan? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Our local newspaper has a daily feature, snidely referred to as the Whine Line, whereby readers may call a number and comment on any subject they like. The caller doesn’t ... Read on »

Bad Behavior in Medical Facilities Revisited by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Has anyone else noticed that a certain subject will be covered in a magazine article, for instance, and then over a span of several days the subject will be covered on TV, ... Read on »

Big Hearts, Warm Hearts---Always a Good Thing by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing We’ve heard all the cliché terms: compassionate care, random acts of kindness, going above and beyond. In the past several weeks a plethora of stories have popped up in th ... Read on »

Bringing Nursing Back by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Has anyone seen the 5-minute video, “We’re Bringing Nursing Back,” on YouTube? Made by nursing students at Binghamton (NY) University, it is intended as a recruiting video ... 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 »

Choose Your Words Carefully by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing "Here’s your pain medication, Mr. Smith." Change the patient’s name and that is a phrase I’ve spoken countless times in my nursing career. Most of us have, I’m sure. It ne ... Read on »

Communication is Key: Let's Give it More Effort by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Communication is an art, a skill, an all-around tricky thing and vital to effective patient care. As nurses, we’ve all received some measure of training in how to communic ... Read on »

Consistent Communication Increases ER Patients' Satisfaction by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Anyone who has ever spent any time in the ER knows that emergency departments can be volatile places. For one thing, it can’t be predicted how many patients will come ... 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 »

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 »

Digital Mammography is Less Clinical, More Comfortable by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Here in Colorado the aspen leaves have turned from quaking green to shimmering gold, signaling that the calendar page has changed over to October—and if it’s October, it i ... Read on »

Do Correct Pronunciations Matter? I Vote Yes! by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing Yesterday, while scanning a nursing-related forum, I came upon a thread that deals with mispronunciations of medical terms. Well, it started out as medical term errors but ... Read on »

Does Hospital Adverstising Really Work? by Glenna Murdock Registered Nurse

Posted in: Blog Posts in Nursing A fellow RN told me about a recent conversation that took place in her hospital unit in a highly respected facility that's part of an equally respected hospital system. ... Read on »

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