Nuggets for February 23

Here are a few goodies I've found courtesy of the internet and some links in my mailbox.

Cleveland Clinic RN fired due to memoirs (from http://www.nursezone.com/)
No surprise here. I can't wait to read the book. I have been lucky so far...not too many as^&*((les inhabit our rehab unit.

An aside: I have a relative who's a specialist, who's not got the best bedside manner. We joke that his bedside manner is so bad that if he has to spend more than two minutes with a patient, he will self-destruct.

At Hotel Rehab, however, I have encountered some comical and some wonderful specialists. Comical--but not therapeutic--one nephrologist, Dr. T., was in on a weekend to visit one of our elderly dialysis patients. Patient was delusional and told Dr. T he murdered someone. Dr. T. told him he was good--as good as Johnny Corcoran and would get him off on lesser charges. Another one of our docs, Dr. G., saw my preceptor and I taking a patient to a medical unit with his isolation cart. Dr. G. knew the cart wouldn't fit on the elevator with us, so he offered to get it to the patient. We figured he'd corral someone and make them do it. Nope, Dr. G. delivered it himself to the room, just as we had unloaded the patient in his new room.

Another, Dr. B. dropped in on several patients and even took one to use the computer on the unit. Our own Dr. F. one day changed a dressing for me. He usually unravels them and leaves them for the nurses to redress, but this one day, he actually dressed it all the way.

I suspect I've been really, really lucky to have these folks around. I will miss them.

The Dangers of Unmanaged Stress (also nursezone.com)
An interesting article on what stress can do to you.

The Business of Healthcare (from http://www.nytimes.com/)
A very interesting section about healthcare and in particular, this article, Who pays for efficiency?

Family centered care (from http://www.nursesean.com/)
I had a brush with this type of behavior this week when a patient on our unit called her husband at home because her light wasn't answered fast enough. Thankfully, she's not been on my team lately!

That's so wrong (or why I really love Nurse William's posts)
I guessed this by the end of the story, but I loved it, nevertheless. Glad you're back, Nurse William! I love your stuff.

And last but not least, in the ROFL category...
Who's your Dialysis Daddy?
License Pending's take on dialysis patients...somewhere the Viagra folks have yet to go.