Controversy

Do we need HIPAA—for coworkers?

Sure, there are rules about patient privacy. But what about when our friends and associates count on us to keep their trusted information from becoming public knowledge?

Memo from a nurse: Why is Nurses Week so weak?

Good thing Nurses Week isn’t my morning coffee. It’s so weak! Why does this celebration keep getting watered down?

What’s my incentive to acquire a DNP?

Are there pay rate changes to the DNP as opposed to the MSN? What are some other benefits of acquiring a DNP? Get Nurse Sean’s answers.

Can nurses have fun without risking it all?

As a nurse, I’ve become socially gun-shy. Am I being extreme? Or am I being conscientious?

Why I hope my patients hate me

That got your attention, didn’t it!? Now, before you fly off the handle, let me explain.

The business of health care

Blame the system, but sometimes I just feel like a brown-noser. The character Dr. House on the TV show “House” is a wonderful example of what most health care professionals are thinking but dare not say…

Nursing education: How much is enough?

APRNs are being required to go back to school for a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree so they can continue, in many cases, to do the same work they are doing now…

Addressing the dress code double standard

Lately I’ve been wondering if the licensed providers (physicians, PAs, NPs) have ever heard the saying “dress for success.” And, if they have heard the saying before, what happened?

Tough love for “incivility” in nursing

I’m still trying to understand the uproar here. Incivility in the workplace is as old at time. Do you agree?

The role of nurse practitioners in healthcare

Being mid-level providers, the world of medicine seems to have drawn a line between support and rejection of NPs. Today I was told by a physician that NPs are simply hired to do all the “scut-work” that physicians don’t want or like to do.