Wednesday, December 12, 2012

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1654/honesty-ethics-professions.aspx


This is the 2012 Gallop poll that shows that Nursing is the number one trusted profession in country. Yet somehow we are told by our employers not to speak to patients about why we are short staffed, why they end up with certain doctors through emergency room referrals that we wouldn't send out enemies to, and why medications are so over priced, or why we can’t  tell you your doctor is incompetent.

I want to know when did the Medical profession become a "antithetical business"?

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.~Milton Friedman, economist~

This quote was written in 1962, yet it is still held as part of the essential understanding as to why business does what it does. Authors such as Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez of the document “A Healthy Bottom Line :Profits or People?” reflect the concerns of this nurse for what our country is leaning towards in health care.

Reed Abelson of the New York Times wrote the article “Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care”, where it states California nurses like David Welch, whose policy has a $4,000 deductible has him delaying a much needed visit to the dermatologist, even though he had a history of skin cancer. “I underestimated how much that cost would affect my behavior,” he said. Insurance carriers like Blue Cross and Blue Shield have asked for a 22 percent increase for policies, even though their reserve coffers are flush with profits and shareholders have been rewarded with new dividends.

The advocacy group Health Care for American Now (HCAN) has contention with the record profit that insurance carriers are making, and states the following "The outsized earnings are a vivid reminder that without comprehensive national health care reform, the gatekeepers of our broken health insurance system always will put the short-term interests of Wall Street before the needs of millions of patients and a national economy plagued by joblessness."

Nursing (CNA, LPN, RN besides advanced practice nurses) needs to become a chargeable entity, like Resp Therapy, Social Services and Physical therapy (which by the way, all practices stemmed from nursing). If our services were to be charged by the hour, like these services, we would break the bank, and then and only then, will we ever get a chance to have real hard look at delivering health care in this country the way it was intended: as a right, not a privilege. 



Sunday, April 15, 2012

Radiation and People

There is no room for this on this earth, yet we keep building more and more sites and keep having things spill, leak and crash, and no freaking way to fix this....

We are going to blow ourselves up here people...and there is no fixing this...

Monday, April 19, 2010

Whats up with the name CULLEN?

Nurse Katie Cullen was murdered by Iman Ghaefelipour, 28, of Stretford Road, stabbed 35-year-old senior hospital sister more than 130 times on her neck, shoulders and face before mutilating her body. Her body was mutilated, left hand was almost cut off, Right eye gouged out.
This poor thing thought she was going to have a fling with a Muslim man, and think she was going to walk away from him. This is in England.

But wait, Nurse Charles Cullen killed any where between 35 to 45 patients by overdose of digoxin as he skipped the light fantastic across the state of Pa, until he hit New Jersey, and got caught.

Isn't there a vampire family named Cullen too?

Freaky!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Change in the wind

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080215/hl_nm/marijuana_usa_dc

I was once reprimanded for sending an email to someone from work about the use of medical marijuana and elderly people. (The email had the elderly dancing naked, after eating their teenage grandchild's brownies).

Its about time.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Getting Started

As a nurse for close to 23 years, I worry so for the profession.
My daughter wants to be a nurse, and although I know its because she truly has admiration for her mom, I am truly and earnest sorry to say I asked "Why?!"

I am tired that we as nurses, (and I mean all the nurses, CNAs,
LPNS, RNs, and even caregivers that work for loved ones without pay) don't truly get the credtit we deserve for our skills. Nursing Care plans are a waste of time, in so much that we are so busy charting to cover our tasks that we don't have the time to make the difference.

We need to be acknowledge as a true, insurance chargeable profession.

My web site will be based on this and it will be up very soon.
Write to me Nurses, I want to hear from you.
The Furious Nurse

Thursday, February 14, 2008

THANK YOU GOOGLE

My first post and I want to thank Google. I love this years Valentine avitar on the site, seniors are often depicted as pitiful creatures and you guys blew that away today. They too represent Cupid's Eros.

More to come, have to work/slavery these days. Hope that will change. The Furious Nurse