Blame The Nurse, A Time-Honored Tradition
Theresa Brown, an oncology nurse, describes a situation in which an entire medical team on its morning rounds stands in a patient’s room, waiting for a test result. The patient, a friendly middle-aged guy, jokingly asked his doctor whom he should yell at. The doctor turned and pointed at the patients’ nurse and replied, “If you want to scream at anyone, scream at her.” In this article on the New York Times’ Well blog, Brown notes that this bullying didn’t...
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Nurse Celebrates Week With Pride
Nurses everywhere are celebrating National Nurses Week May 6th through 12th. One such nurse, Renee DeRider, says that nursing has been one of the most rewarding experiences she’s ever had. DeRider has over a decade of experience nursing. She graduated in 2001 and immediately started working in pediatrics, with a concentration in hematology, oncology, and surgery. Now she works in a hemophilia center where she coordinates patient care for both children and adults with bleeding disorders. This article on the...
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Nurses working in oncology care suffer from a high degree of burnout and compassion fatigue. The typical oncology nurse will develop a close relationship with patients and patients’ family members over the course of treatment, which can last months or even years. In a study conducted by Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 153 participants (mostly nurses), responded to a wide variety of questions on their feelings of burnout and compassion fatigue. Forty-four percent of inpatient staff nurses felt they suffered some...
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National Nurse’s Week: One Nurse’s Story
In honor of National Nurses’s week, Sherry R. Siegel, R.N., M.S.N., C.H.P.N, is featured in an article on GoErie.com, relaying her story of being a nurse over the past twenty years. Her story begins more than 20 years ago when she was a single mother with two children and lots of bills to pay. She was a waitress at the time and actually enjoyed that job, but the pay was not enough to give her family financial security (or health...
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An RN named Kelly Jantz loves being a nurse, and loves making people laugh. Once a week, she shows up at her hospital in a vintage nursing uniform, wheeling her cart full of supplies. No hypodermic needles here — it’s all the likes of stuffed animals, comic DVDs, and clown noses. These supplies are used for laugh therapy with staff members, patients, and their families. She’s dubbed her program Positive Hopeful Individuals Laughing, or PHIL. In this article on the...
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