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Andrew Lopez, RN, Founder of the Nurse Friendly Directories and fellow blogger advocating for Amanda Trujillo.
Carol Gino, New York Times’ Bestselling Author and Nurse Leader advocating for Amanda Trujillo.
Kevin Ross, Nurse Entrepreneur, fellow Nurse Blogger and Co-Host at RN.FM Radio advocating for Amanda Trujillo.
Michael Pergrem, “Coach Perg,” Nursing Coach and Nurse Entrepreneur advocating for Amanda Trujillo.
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If you don’t know who embattled Nurse Amanda Trujillo is, well, you’ve probably been living under a rock, or maybe you just worked 3 in a row…in either case, you’re forgiven.
Before you listen to her audio interview though, check out my 2 previous posts about her dire situation here and here.
Once you understand her case, you’ll also understand it’s far-reaching implications for the Nursing profession and a patient’s right to informed consent and right to determine the course of their own care.
Let that all sink in for a bit and then listen to Amanda explain her case in her own words in this very special interview:
Read MoreFeel 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.
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Arizona State Board of Nursing
4747 North 7th Street, Suite 200
Phoenix, AZ 85014-3655
602-771-7800 Phone
602-771-7888 Fax
arizona@azbn.gov Email
http://www.azbn.gov/
To whom it may concern,
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Everyone knows that social media marketing is a great way to explode your marketing efforts. Since social media sites are free and reach a huge audience, there is no reason not to use them. Talk about being cost effective!
1) Set up accounts on several social media networks. For instance, you may want a Facebook page, Twitter profile, LinkedIn profile and YouTube channel. Of course, there are other networks coming on board all the time, so join as many as needed.
Read MoreWow! This article seems to have struck a nerve and generated a ton of controversy over at the PBS website.
I’m super interested in what you guys think!
Wearing the 2 hats of “nurse” and “nurse entrepreneur,” my thoughts on this article are varied…and almost conflicting at times.
Also, what do you guys think when the media uses the term “nursing shortage?”
I’m curious to hear your feelings…
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BY: JASON KANE
Breathe a little easier, baby boomers. The nursing shortage that looked like it might deepen just in time for your retirement may not be so certain after all.
According to a report published Monday in the journal Health Affairs, young registered nurses are now entering the workforce at a rate not seen since the 1970s.
After peaking at 190,000 in 1979, the number of RNs between the ages of 23 and 26 plummeted below 110,000 in the early ’90s. That’s a drop of about 50 percent, bottoming out at 102,000 in 2002.
Graphic courtesy Health Affairs.
Then, unexpectedly, everything changed. Between 2002 and 2009, the number of mid-20-something RNs jumped by 62 percent. According to the report, “If these young nurses follow the same life-cycle employment patterns as those who preceded them — as they appear to be thus far — then they will be the largest cohort of registered nurses ever observed.”
But if your local hospital already has a shortage of nurses, it might be a little early to celebrate the trend. A second Health Affairs study published Monday found that nurses rarely move very far for a job. In fact, 52.5 percent of nurses work within 40 miles of where they attended high school.
Next to teaching, the report shows, nursing is one of the least-mobile professions for women. Without intervention, areas currently struggling to produce RNs probably won’t be seeing an upswing in their numbers any time soon.
The increased numbers also won’t automatically translate to enough nurses who specialize in geriatrics. That, too, will take work.
So what does all that mean for an aging U.S. population? Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and former NewsHour health correspondent, answers our questions below.
These numbers seem relatively optimistic. How will they relate to the nursing shortage?
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Guest Post by Ursula Mentjes
What if you could have anything you desired in 2012? What would you ask for?
Since I was in my early twenties, I have been researching the topic of goal achievement incessantly. I have read hundreds of books (my book shelf and Kindle are overflowing!) on the topic so that I could more easily achieve my goals and help my clients do the same. My hunger to find books on the topic is insatiable. Used bookstores, new bookstores, Kindle – they are all like a magical land to me! Some say that you just need to read ten books on any topic to be considered an expert. What does it means when you’ve read one hundred or more?
For me, it means that I can now help my clients answer this question, “What is the fastest and easiest way to reach my goal?” That is the question that I tell all of my clients to ask themselves when they get clarity on what they want. But sometimes the hardest thing is for them to figure out what they want.
Why is it so hard for humans to figure out what they want? It’s difficult because our belief system gets in the way. Just as an idea pops into our heads regarding what we want, our ego pops up and says, “Really? You can’t have that! You’re not _______ !” Our ego is there to keep us safe by creating fearful thoughts to stop us in our tracks, but it’s only a problem if we believe what it tells us.
Read MoreAustralian Nurse Creates the Nurses’ Joey
Hey Everybody!
Check out this link to a video on YouTube showing an Australian nurse who was sick of running back and forth to grab all her supplies all the time. She just wanted to have everything handy and save herself all the walking, so she invented a type of Nursing Toolbelt called the “Nurses’ Joey” and it’s taking off like wildfire!
I love it’s simplicity and functionality!
Check out the video and let me know what you think?
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Read MoreHey Guys!
So this article is an oldie, but a goodie!
I was searching for information on Alternative Nursing Careers and found it on NurseWeek.com. While I don’t agree with all of the suggestions, like “travel nursing being hot right now,” as the travel nursing market has definitely cooled in the last few years, I do like that it highlights alternatives for nurses and the various ways it stimulate outside-of-the-box thinking!
Let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Anna
A tour of some of the uncommon career paths in nursing
By Diane Sussman
In 20-plus years of nursing, Donna Doetsch, RN, has been a traveling nurse, a home care nurse, a dialysis nurse, a burn unit nurse, an intensive care nurse and a wound care specialist. But when the Grosse Pointe, Mich., resident began feeling “burned out,” she decided to revisit home care. Now, Doetsch is happily employed as co-director of an assisted living program, where she does everything from counseling families to picking out paint colors.
“I’m kind of a jack-of-all-trades, and I love it,” she said. “No day is the same.”
After nine years in med/surg and nine more teaching health sciences, Katherine Ricossa, MS, RN, spends her days “networking, coordinating” and taking her nurse Barbies to schools to talk about health professions.
The Santa Clara, Calif., resident is special projects manager for the state-run Regional Health Occupations Resource Center, which helps communities meet their needs for health care workers by developing occupational programs at local community colleges. “All that experience I gained in nursing I’m applying in a whole new way,” she said. “And it’s fun because you’re not limited to anything except what’s in your own head.”
Both Ricossa and Doetsch reflect what is now the norm in the United States: careers that unfold in two or three stages. Only in their case, they didn’t have to leave nursing to find a satisfying sequel.
What nurses have
What nurses bring to the job market often is underestimated and inadequately understood. “It sounds simplistic, but it’s actually really powerful – the nursing process,” said Karen Johnson Brennan, Ed.D., RN, professor and interim director at the School of Nursing at San Francisco State University.
“By nursing process, I mean the ability to gather data, analyze data, make clinical inferences and take actions, and evaluate those actions,” she continued. “Some people are only good at one aspect – they see only the evaluation part. But nurses see the whole picture.”
Hospitals will always be the largest employers of nurses, but nurses increasingly are being wooed by other sectors such as pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, corporations and law firms. While some areas are good, others are white-hot.
Read MoreHey guys,
Just found this article and wanted to make sure you got a chance to read it. It’s from Nurseweek Magazine in 2002, but the nuggets of wisdom it contains are still as valuable as ever. What’s interesting to me when I read this article is that as great as it was to start a bricks and mortar business back in 2002, it is infinitely easier to start an online business based on your nursing expertise nowadays! We owe a ton of respect and a great deal of our current success to the pioneer nurse entrepreneurs that have gone before us!
Enjoy the article and let me know what you think in the comments box below!
Cheers,
Anna
Nurse entrepreneurs strike out on their own to find richer rewards, challenges
By Bree LeMaire, MS, RN
It was Saturday and Karon White Gibson, RN, and Joy Smith Catterson, RN, were making visits to several patients in their new home care business. They were also on their way to a wedding, so they were dressed more sophisticated than usual for a home visit.
They went to the designated address for the visit where the family welcomed them and offered them a cup of tea. Then they sat and chatted a bit with the family, as they were new in the home care business and wanted to establish a rapport with their patient. The family introduced them to their daughter and her husband.
Following tea and the introductions, White asked, “Where’s the patient?”
“Well, there was no patient because we were at the wrong house,” White said. That was when White and Catterson learned that people like to have nurses visit them, even when they’re not expected.
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Hey guys!
In this post, I just want to open up a little and allow you to get to know me better. I don’t want to be just another blogger hiding behind a website or just another “gooroo” whom you never really get to know.
I’ve learned that business is just like life, whether it’s online or off it’s ALL about one thing: RELATIONSHIPS!
And I want you guys to know that I’m here to help you out in any way I can, but in addition to that, I really just want to connect and build a relationship with you. Hopefully, out of those relationships, together we can build a fun, caring and supportive community.
So below you will find a few things you may not know about me. Really, I just want to pull back the curtain and let you know what I’m about.
1. I was born and raised in sunny Miami, FL and was the only “gringa” in my entire class the whole way through elementary school. Needless to say, I learned Spanglish fast and can now hold my own.
2. I’m a Gen X-er. I was born on August 26, 1975. (The same date in history that the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed, giving women the right to vote.) I guess they knew I was coming!
3. “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is my all-time favorite movie, and I can recite every line from it that’s worth reciting.
4. I’m starting to go gray and I can’t decide whether I want to run away and bury my head in the sand and cry, or suck it up, hold my graying head up high and pretend it looks distinguished.
5. I have a birthmark on the inside of my left thigh; it looks like a rocket ship.
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