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A kinder, gentler workplace, part 2: Impatience

October 21, 2016

When I was a nursing student making rounds with a surgeon, he decided to remove a patient’s stitches. I hurried to the treatment room for a sterile suture pack and laid it…

Before blowing the whistle, learn to protect yourself

March 11, 2007

Don’t let fear of reprisal stop you from reporting serious misconduct.

Ethics for nurses in everyday practice: How stupid can you get?

February 11, 2011

Staffing is an issue at this 150-bed proprietary acute-care hospital. More than 100 of the hospital’s nurses, led by Mary Sims*, RN, signed a letter of concern about…

No more nurse abuse

July 11, 2008

There’s no excuse for not reporting abuse.

Reducing healthcare violence using community policing-based security strategies

October 19, 2021

A ‘safe neighborhood’ program protects staff. Takeaways: Community policing-based security strategies in healthcare organizations focus on trust, training, and technology and treat each unit or floor as a…

Violence in the healthcare workplace

December 11, 2006

From verbal threats to all-out physical assault, violence takes a huge toll in the healthcare workplace.

When nurses speak up, they pay a price

October 11, 2013

Leah Curtin discusses the effects of whistleblowing on nurses’ lives

Whistleblowing Texas Style

April 11, 2010

Eeyore’s Gloomy Little Instruction Book contains this sage advice: “No matter how good your friends are, and no matter how right you are, they may not stand behind…

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