- Guest Post by Carol Gino, Nurse, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, and blogger at The Hopeful Healer.
When I was working the night shift, one of my patients- a 44 year old man, had just gone for an angiogram. He had been brought back to the floor afterwards, but began hemorrhaging from his femoral artery. I’d added pressure dressings, laid on heavier sandbags, and then called the intern.
The intern took a while to get to the floor and all the while the patient kept bleeding heavily. When the intern just shook his head and did nothing, I called his resident. When the resident didn’t respond, I called the attending. Now I knew I was in big trouble. It didn’t matter that the patient’s blood pressure was 60/40 by the time I called, it mattered that I had broken protocol.
Feel free to re-post these letters and please write or call the Arizona State Board of Nursing to ask them to drop all complaints against Amanda Trujillo. Please click here for my original blog post containing all case details.
Hey guys, on Monday I introduced you to Keith Carlson, one of my co-hosts on RN.FM Radio. Today, I’d like to introduce you to my other partner in crime, Kevin Ross from InnovativeNurse.com.
Kevin is our no-nonsense, tech-savvy, won’t settle for anything less than the very best kind of nurse entrepreneur….and we love him for it!
Here’s Kevin’s motto:
Seek every opportunity for continuing education. A business can never afford to be static. Innovation is the key to success and it is a delicate combination of ever-changing art and science.
He is an ultra-innovative, self-starter and always has his “head on a swivel,” as he likes to say. Early in his professional career he realized that if he wasn’t working his passion and living up to his potential…he was just existing and ‘getting by’…that’s painful for some of us to recognize….and it was a painful realization for him as well.
By digging deep and identifying his passion and then strategically pursuing it, Kevin was able to achieve a level of wellness, career satisfaction and purpose that few achieve.
Keith has been a nurse for over 15 years and has been blogging and working online successfully since 2005. Recently, he has begun a nurse coaching practice, where he helps nurses rediscover their passion and live a more fulfilled life.
Keith believes that, ‘Success breeds success…how you think and who you hang out with on a daily basis will determine your frame of mind.’
Most nurses and caregivers in general, tend to give so much of themselves that they often forget to care for themselves as well. Who among us hasn’t been there?
The problem is that nurses who forget to take care of themselves are destined to face burnout.
Hope you’re all enjoying the holidays as much as I am!
Boy, I’ve been hitting the cake and eggnog a little hard these days – I won’t lie, the pants are definitely fitting a little tighter than usual – so it’s back to the gym with a vengeance for me in January!
Anyway, I wanted to give you guys links to 2 guest blog posts I wrote in the last week, so you didn’t miss out on these nuggets!
