http://insightsinnursing.com Interviews and Articles from Nursing Though Leaders and Educators Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:32:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Listen to a panel of nurse leaders from the online world including prominent nurse bloggers, podcasters, and educators as they look at nurses and nursing in the news and discuss health care, patient wellness and the future of the nursing profession. This show is the perfect weekly update for any RN, LPN, student or educator! Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S podmedic@mac.com podmedic@mac.com (Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S) MedicCast Productions, LLC Insights in Nursing features discussions with online nurse leaders about current events, research, and health care issues affecting nurses and nursing care. The perfect weekly companion for nurses and nursing students and educators at all levels. nurse,nursing,rn,lpn,hospital,patient care,education,news,health,wellness http://insightsinnursing.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/insights_itunes-sm-144.png http://insightsinnursing.com http://insightsinnursing.com/2012/04/when-letting-go-is-the-best-form-of-care/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2012/04/when-letting-go-is-the-best-form-of-care/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:58:23 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=965 http://insightsinnursing.com/2012/04/when-letting-go-is-the-best-form-of-care/feed/ 0 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/11/finding-your-nursing-tribe-and-episode-37-of-insights-in-nursing/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/11/finding-your-nursing-tribe-and-episode-37-of-insights-in-nursing/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:25:41 +0000 admin http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=958 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/11/finding-your-nursing-tribe-and-episode-37-of-insights-in-nursing/feed/ 0 blogger,brittney wilson,health care,jamie davis,kim mcallister,nurse,nurses,podmedic,robot,social health,social media,terri polick Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 37 Recorded Live at Blogworld 2011 in L.A. - The new season of Insights in Nursing kicks off with a live episode recorded from the RawVoice.com booth at Blogworld L.A. at the beginning of November. Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 37 Recorded Live at Blogworld 2011 in L.A. The new season of Insights in Nursing kicks off with a live episode recorded from the RawVoice.com booth at Blogworld L.A. at the beginning of November. Joining host Jamie Davis (of the Nursing Show) is Kim McAllister from the Emergiblog, Terri Polick from Nurse Ratched's Place, and newcomer to the panel, Brittany Wilson (a.k.a. "TheNerdyNurse"). All four panelists were attending the conference primarily to participate in the social health care track where they discussed and presented on a variety of topics including HIPAA and social media, patient access to information online, and setting the agenda for the future of social media interaction with health care, patients, and professionals. They also got the chance to briefly interview with nurse blogger Jana Hartley who blogs with her husband, a doctor of physical therapy, at ADoctorandaNurse.com (http://ADoctorandaNurse.com). It is always exciting to see new nurse bloggers, tweeters and facebook fans branching out into using social media to support high quality health care information to their communities, colleagues and patients. Subscribe for Free – Use these links! (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=379706459) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (zune://subscribe/?Insights%20in%20Nursing=http://insightsinnursing.com/feed/podcast/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://insightsinnursing.com/feed/podcast/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeRSS.png)Blog (http://insightsinnursing.com/feed/) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeTwitter.png)Twitter (http://twitter.com/podmedic) | (http://mediccast.com/images/SubscribeFacebook.png)Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/podmedic) Choose from these links for free weekly delivery of Insights in Nursing! ———- Join us! On the panel this week: Brittany Wilson, author of TheNerdyNurse.com (http://TheNerdyNurse.com) blog and on Twitter @thenerdynurse (http://twitter.com/thenerdynurse). Terri Polick, author of Nurse Ratched's Place (http://nurseratchedsplace.com) and on Twitter @MotherJonesRN (http://twitter.com/motherjonesrn) Kim McAllister, author of the Emergiblog (http://emergiblog.com) and on Twitter @emergiblog (http://twitter.com/emergiblog) and host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMTP, BA, AAS managing director of the ProMed Network (http://promednetwork.com/) and host of the Nursing Show (http://nursingshow.com/)and MedicCast (http://mediccast.com/blog)weekly programs. Join us as we delve in to our week's topic. ——– Links from the Topic: New site for Social Healthcare discussion (HealthCareBloggers.com) (http://healthcarebloggers.com) Blogworld website (http://blogworld.com) Robot Nurse from Japan article (http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/1/2530076/toyotas-robot-nurses-future-rehab-healthcare) Contact Insights in Nursing Do you have a question or a comment for our nurse panelists for this or any other episode of Insights in Nursing? Email us at InsightsInNursing@GMail.com (mailto:insightsinnursing@gmail.com)with your comments on this episode, suggestions for the show or future episodes or just to tell about what you think is important right now for you as a nurse! ——- Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/05/fighting-hospital-acquired-zombieism/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/05/fighting-hospital-acquired-zombieism/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 10:15:03 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=872 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/05/fighting-hospital-acquired-zombieism/feed/ 0 ann robinson,bedbugs,health reform,medicais savings,medication error,nurse driven colonoscopy program,nurses against zombieism,terri schmitt Nurse Commits Suicide After Medication Error - Starting off this week's episode is about an article from an anonymous blogger on a nurse named Kimberly Hiatt, a practicing nurse for 27 years, who made a medication error and unfortunately contributed t... Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 36 Nurse Commits Suicide After Medication Error Starting off this week's episode is an article from an anonymous blogger on a nurse named Kimberly Hiatt, a practicing nurse for 27 years, who made a medication error and unfortunately contributed to the child's death. She was then fired from her job, sanctioned by the board of nursing and ultimately committed suicide from all the stress she was going through. The discussion went on on the current culture for nurses who make medical errors and reporting errors today, what nurses can do to protect themselves, and how to appropriately deal with these types of situations. Bedbugs Carrying Superbugs Next up is an article that has been cropping up quite frequently recently, bedbugs. This article says that bedbugs taken from patients who live in Vancouver's gritty Downtown Eastside were carrying two types of drug-resistant bacteria. Though the article continued on saying that though the bedbugs carried the infection, there has been no evidence that the infection had been transmitted to humans. Federal Agency Finding Ways for Medicaid Savings The panel then continued on to talk about the third article which was about federal agencies looking for ways to save in Medicaid and Medicare patients. They found it interesting that 15% of those who have Medicare are accounted for 40% of the cost because they have both Medicare and Medicaid and that the two systems should coordinate when having patients enrolled in both on how they could be provided the best possible care with the resources that they have. Nurse-led colonoscopy program The nurse driven open access colonoscopy article points out that there are way to make significant improvements in savings as much as 10%for various chronic ill patients overall every year. That being said the podmedic's take on this is that instead of making a large difficult leap to health reform, its better to take little steps to reach that goal by increasing access for other health practitioners in the marketplace to perform procedures that can be done without the supervision of a physician like in this article's case, colonoscopy. Nurses Againts Zombieism This final article is on an online game from the University of Calgary that was created for the purpose of changing the idea on what nurses do. Unlike all the other zombie games where the player's goal is to annihilate the zombies, the Nurses Against Zombieism game let's the player triage the patients coming in and actually heal the zombies and prevent them from turning the normal patients into zombies. Subscribe for Free – Use these links! 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On the panel this week: Anne Robinson,novice podcaster, SM Nurse, Exec Producer for ProMed Network, Twitter@caringanne (http://twitter.com/caringanne) Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/05/nurses-get-the-silent-treatment/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/05/nurses-get-the-silent-treatment/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 13:47:31 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=861 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/05/nurses-get-the-silent-treatment/feed/ 0 anna dermenchyan,anne robison,dorrie fontaine,interview,nti 2011,silent treatment This week the podmedic does an interview segment from the NTI conference at Chicago joined by public health nurse consultant and co-host Anne Robinson, critical care nurse Anna Dermenchyan from UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center and part-time nurse educ... Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 35 This week the podmedic does an interview segment from the NTI conference at Chicago joined by public health nurse consultant and co-host Anne Robinson, critical care nurse Anna Dermenchyan from UCLA Ronald R... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 36:16 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/is-that-a-droid-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-my-nurse/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/is-that-a-droid-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-my-nurse/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:09:51 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=856 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/is-that-a-droid-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-my-nurse/feed/ 0 anne robinson,medical errors,nursing education,research,staffing shortage,stress,terri polick 1 in 3 People to Encounter A Mistake During Hospital Stays - The discussion starts off with a research about how mistakes are common in US hospitals. Anne's thought of this was whether the data has actually been better collected or if health professio... Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 34 1 in 3 People to Encounter A Mistake During Hospital Stays The discussion starts off with a research about how mistakes are common in US hospitals. Anne's thought of this was whether the data has actually been better collected or if health professionals are just making more errors now as compared to the past. Terri brought up some points in the article where MRSA was called a medical error which is not usually the case. Another thing is the cut made by Medicare on the medication time as compared before when nurses are given a grace period of one hour before or from the time the medication is scheduled. Being a nurse researcher herself, Terri says that medical errors have been looked at for the past 10 years and says that we have gotten better and lived though medical errors ourselves. The podmedic also thought that the reports may seem to have stretched the term medical errors since some of those mentioned are more like adverse events where an unintended complication arises which may or may not be a result of an error. Better Work Conditions and Staffing Improves Patient Care... Well, Duh? The next article was a report on the study that revealed better work conditions and better staffing result to improved patient care and tougher work schedules deteriorated patient outcomes. The podmedic pointed out that though the cause of some of the problems has been identified, it still comes down to staffing problems. Terri was pleased with the fact that this article not only looked at staffing as a problem but the psychological stress that nurses go through. It's not just about how many nurses are on the floor but how they're running the floor and what are asked of the nurses to be done. Anne pointed out that long shifts or long hours of work also contributes to stress especially when the emergency cases come in the last hour of the nurse's shift where the nurse is already beat. Terri agreed to this and added that the fact that nurses are not given the time to stay away from their jobs for long because of under staffing and in the end costs hospitals more because of poor patient outcomes. NLN Nursing School Survey Released This article talks about the annual survey conducted by the NLN in nursing schools in the US and looks at a variety of things like the availability of educational resources, demographics of students, and looks at the potential future nursing workforce. The podmedic connected this with the previous article where if hospitals are understaffed, schools are too and the availability of nurse educators may be lacking. In the previous episodes of Insights in Nursing, some of Terri's students came in as panelists and talked about some of the key points in the IOM report. The panelists move on to talk about how the curriculum of nursing education and lab training  has changed from the time when they were the ones in nursing school and more. —- Subscribe for Free – Use these links! 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Medsyntrix.com (http://medsyntrix.com/) for unique online CE for that continuing education that all nurses need! www.MedSyntrix.com (http://medsyntrix.com/) and Bandwidth sponsor AllNurses.com, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/too-young-to-die-and-never-too-old-for-bsn/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/too-young-to-die-and-never-too-old-for-bsn/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:39:51 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=845 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/too-young-to-die-and-never-too-old-for-bsn/feed/ 1 The show starts off with a brief introduction of the panelists on this week's show. First on the panel is Terri Schmitt from nursestory.com who brought on some of her students to as panelists in this discussion. Next up was Teresa Herrin, Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 33 The show starts off with a brief introduction of the panelists on this week's show. First on the panel is Terri Schmitt from nursestory.com who brought on some of her students to as panelists in this discussion. Next up was Teresa Herrin, a nurse who started off as a microbiologist then continued into a nursing career in 1994 with an ADN. Since 1996, Teresa has worked as an RN up until 2 years ago when her position required a higher degree of nursing education. Now at 56, she is currently pursuing to get her BSN degree. Finally, Kurt Harter, also one of Terri's students, has been working at a single health care institution for 25 years. He started to take his BSN degree a few years after being an RN as an ADN but stopped after having children. He then went back to continue his BSN and says that the education then and now had a lot of changes and it had been a different learning curve for him. Online vs. Seated Classes Right after the brief introduction, they moved on to talking about the difference of studying nursing then and now as Kurt mentioned that a lot has changed in the mode of instruction from traditional seated classes to studying online over the internet. Terri, being their instructor mentioned three advantages of online classes as opposed to traditional seated classes which was the ability to pull in students that normally wouldn't have been able to come back to school, the online students being able to learn how to navigate technology better and finally,communicating and working with each other in networks that would unlikely happen in a seated class. Nursing and Technology The podmedic then brought up his concern about most of the population of the nursing profession being not as savvy on online resources as opposed to other health care professions. Nurses being too tired from work when they got home, different institutions with different technologies,  and the average age of nurses and the age group of those comfortable with technology not being on the same level were some of the comments that came up. Terri added that the nursing education has been slow to catch up with the use of technology with seated classes still being held. The ILN reports have been trying to change this but with the average age of nurse educators being higher compared to nurses on floor, they should also adapt to the technology. As to the application of an IT course to nursing practice, the two students share their take from computerized documentation to patient needs communicated via technology. BSN in 10 The discussion moves on into the paper that came out about ADN graduates having to get a BSN degree within 10 years after being RNs. A question that came up was if RN wouldn't get a BSN in 10 years, does that mean they are not allowed to be bedside nurses anymore?  Issues such as the financial resources, the time that would be taken and the difficulty of convincing someone or a good reason why a nurse should pursue a BSN also were talked about. Terri mentioned a paper on a research that was done in a post-op unit which shows that part of the increased survival rates was related to the education level of the nurse caring for the patient. It also shows that nurses with a higher degree of education tend to stay at the bedside longer. Though the reason has not thoroughly been established, studies are still going on with different variables being considered. Adult learners and BSN The ages between ADN nurses who go back to school to get their BSN and the students who got into BSN straight away has a large gap. As adult learners themselves, Teresa and Kurt share their experiences and thoughts on the hurdles they had to face upon coming back to nursing school and what they did to overcome those challenges. They also shared which parts of the BSN course they were and were not able to apply into the workplace as well as the application of evidence-based nursing. Concluding the show, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/national-nurse/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/national-nurse/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:23:23 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=824 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/national-nurse/feed/ 2 kim mcallister,lori schoenly,national nurse,nurse leadership,public health,susan sullivan Susan Sullivan, secretary of the National Nursing Network Organization, started off by providing a brief history as to how the idea of having a national nurse came about as well as the movements that have been done to push it forward into implementation. Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 32 How National Nurse Came About (http://www.nursingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Support_NN_badge.jpg)Susan Sullivan, secretary of the National Nursing Network Organization (http://nationalnurse.org/), started off by providing a brief history as to how the idea of having a national nurse came about as well as the movements that have been done to push it forward into implementation. Moving on, the panelists discussed on the importance of having a public figure in the form of a national nurse to provide visibility of nurse leadership on a national level, get nurses be more involved in public health issues, and putting preventive nursing care in the highlight. National Nurse and the ANA Another thing that also came about in the discussion is the ANA's seeming lack of support for this movement. As Kim McAllister had mentioned, she previously sent an open letter to the ANA basically asking them what they are afraid about in pursuing this movement since the position of national nurse would not in any way be threatening but an efficient and cost effective position and it is not about who is on top but the massive action at the community level that can come out of this. International Nurse Representative Susan Sullivan mentioned that there is already an existing representative for the US in international conventions for nurses which is the chief nurse of the public health service. Most nurses and the public is unaware of such and the position is still needed to be formally designated as national nurse where it goes back again to the reluctance of moving on into that direction. Giving Nursing Students the Vision For nursing students to better understand the meaning of having a national nurse and encouraging them to support this movement, Susan advised that they be informed of the resources available to educate them about it as well as the social media community to spread the word. Also communicating with congressional leaders on the matter is a very good way to get started. On a final note, host Jamie Davis said that this is not only an investment in the future of the profession but an investment in the future of the country. —- Subscribe for Free – Use these links! 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Medsyntrix.com (http://medsyntrix.com/) for unique online CE for that continuing education that all nurses need! www.MedSyntrix.com (http://medsyntrix.com/) and Bandwidth sponsor AllNurses.com, the Largest online community for nurses (http://allnurses.com/?utm_source=nursingshow_com&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=nursingshow_video). Continue the discussions there! ———- Join us! On the panel this week: Lorry Schoenley of Correctional Nurse.net (http://correctional%20nurse.net/) and on twitter @LorrySchoenly (http://twitter.com/lorryschoenly) Kim McAllister of Emergiblog.com (http://emergiblog.com/) and on Twitter @emergiblog (http://twitter.com/emergiblog/). Susan Sullivan of National Nurse for Public Health (http://nationalnurse.org/) and host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMTP, BA, AAS managing director of the ProMed Network (http://promednetwork.com/) and host of the Nursing Show Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/caffeine-overdoses/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/caffeine-overdoses/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:41:37 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=817 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/caffeine-overdoses/feed/ 0 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/ethics-schmethics-on-insights-in-nursing-episode-31/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/ethics-schmethics-on-insights-in-nursing-episode-31/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:34:03 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=806 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/04/ethics-schmethics-on-insights-in-nursing-episode-31/feed/ 0 australian doctors,medication errors,nurse ethics,nurse practitioners Host Jamie Davis was joined on this week's show by Paul Kapsar and Lori Shaunley. In the first article, the panelists share their opinions on the new study that came out which looked at the critical role of nurses in helping patients and their families... Welcome to Insights in Nursing Episode 31 Nurses' Role in Ethical Issues Host Jamie Davis was joined on this week's show by Paul Kapsar and Lori Shaunley In the first article, the panelists share their opinions on the new study that came out which... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/03/nln-document-address-advanced-education-for-nurses/ http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/03/nln-document-address-advanced-education-for-nurses/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:46:25 +0000 rnproducer http://insightsinnursing.com/?p=802 http://insightsinnursing.com/2011/03/nln-document-address-advanced-education-for-nurses/feed/ 0