Nurses and Doctors in Iran Protest Police Brutality
Here's a June 16 YouTube video that apparently shows outraged nurses and physicians in Tehran protesting police brutality against protesters.
Do Male Nurses Face Reverse Sexism?
A recent blog entry at the Boston Globe asks: "Should you let a male nurse deliver your baby?" No wonder men still aren't joining the profession in droves.
‘Hawthorne’ versus ‘Nurse Jackie’?
We've already posted about Showtime's controversial new drama, Nurse Jackie. When it rains it pours: Hawthorne, TNT's new series starring Jada Pinkett Smith as a chief nursing officer, starts tonight. Is there anything to be gained from comparing the nurse characters in the two shows, or do they exist in parallel TV universes that could never collide?
When Poor Oral Care Causes Death
AJN’s June feature article
“Take care of your teeth”—it’s something we’re told as soon as we’re old enough to hold a toothbrush. But it’s not so straightforward for the nursing personnel who provide oral care in nursing homes. According to a 2000 Surgeon General report on oral health, “Mouth care is often considered an unpleasant task and is often delegated to nursing auxiliaries, who have even less oral health training than registered nursing staff.”
This month AJN features a case study of a patient that proves this point. A severely disabled man received such poor oral care from nursing home personnel that his oral and nasopharyngeal secretions built up (“inspissated”), and he died from asphyxia. The lead author, Joseph A. Prahlow, was the pathologist in charge of the autopsy; the article features graphic photos of the thickened secretions that blocked his airway. A companion article by two dentists, Pamela S. Stein and Robert G. Henry, gives nurses suggestions […]
Nurse Jackie Revisited: Do the Cringes Outweigh the Moments of Recognition?
I get that this is a TV show and designed for entertainment and that Nurse Jackie is a fictional character. And I’ve worked with nurses who have some of Jackie’s problems, though not all rolled up into one person. But I still find myself wondering if the writers thought that in order to make nurses’ work interesting to others they had to add such extreme behaviors. Aren’t nurses’ stories compelling on their own?