Magnet Hospitals and Happy Nurses!

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After last week's episode focusing solely on education, our panel jumps back in to reviewing a few nursing articles from the week and we start off with a look at a University of Maryland School of Nursing study about nurse job satisfaction and magnet status of a hospital. Does a hospital's status and accreditation as a magnet facility necessarily mean that the nurses there are happier than other facilities? We ask that question of our panel.

Kim and Jamie delve into the topic of non-traditional conferences and Jamie announces the first ever nursing podcast listener cruise coming up in January. Visit NursingAtSea.com for details and booking information.

We also take a look at a nurse educator in Baltimore who is reaching out to see if simple nursing interventions can improve the lives of lower income elderly persons so they can live longer, healthier lives in their own homes. What are other nurses doing to impact their communities in such a direct and resourceful way?

On the panel this week:

Susan Bindon, MSN, RN-BC, Senior Consultant, Education Development, Lifebridge Health.

Kim McAllister, BSN, RN, Author of the Emergiblog and a regular panelist here at Insights.

and host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMTP, BA, AAS managing director of the ProMed Network and host of the Nursing Show and MedicCast weekly programs.

Join us as we delve in to this topic.

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Links from the show:

Magnet Status and Nurse Job Satisfaction Study

Nurse Podcast Listener Cruise link

Baltimore Nurse Educator Studies Low Income Home Health Initiative

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On this week's Insights in Nursing, we brought together an amazing panel of nurse educators and leaders to discuss the future of nurse education. Where is the profession of nursing headed and what can a new nurse or prospective nurse look forward to in the way of educational opportunities and requirements.

On the panel this week:

Christy Dryer, MSN, RN, CNE, Director of Nursing Programs at Cecil College in North East, Maryland.

Joan Stanley, PhD, RN, CRNP, Director of Education Policy for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Susan Bindon, MSN, RN-BC, Senior Consultant, Education Development, Lifebridge Health.

Kim McAllister, BSN, RN, Author of the Emergiblog and a regular panelist here at Insights.

and host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMTP, BA, AAS managing director of the ProMed Network and host of the Nursing Show and MedicCast weekly programs.

Join us as we delve in to this topic.

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Links from the show:

Nursing Tri-Council on Nursing Education and Advancement of Degree (pdf file)

Nursing Tri-Council on the Projected Nurse Shortage and the Current Economy

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This week I had a chance to do a one-on-one interview with student nurse blogger, Lovlei, author of the blog "The Dog Ate My Care Plan." She recently wrote a post on her blog about the challenges seen by some nursing students who are graduating and having difficulty finding work after nursing school.

What Nursing Shortage?

I thought it would be a good opportunity to chat with her about how things look from her perspective as she is about a year off from her graduation date.

Join us as we delve in to this topic.

Lovlei from The Dog Ate My Care Plan

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This week's episode of Insights in Nursing looked at a USA Today article on multi-state licenses causing problems with disciplined nurses skirting the rules. Is this a huge problem or much ado about nothing?

Then we move on to discuss a problem with the title some physician agencies are using for PAs and Nurse Practitioners. They are being called "Physician Extenders." Huh? EXACTLY.

Finally we point out an instance of the media getting it right by recognizing a nurse who was nominated to a position of honor by a patient advocacy group.

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Kim McAllister from the Emergiblog

Terri Polick from Nurse Ratched's Place

and Jamie Davis of the Nursing Show

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This week's episode of Insights in Nursing kicked off with a great discussion about critical understanding of research published by various sources. The topic came from a great article about flawed meta-analysis in a research study by Amy Romano of the Science and Sensibility blog (ScienceandSensibility.org).

We followed that up with a look at EMS blogger, Chris Kaiser's article on EMTs and Paramedics as "Sporks" of the medical community, in which he referred to nurses as the perfect and natural assistants to doctors. Chris wasn't being malicious but was repeating a common misconception about nurses that seems to continue to exist despite all that nursing has accomplished over the years.

What is it about blogging that scares employers so much and what can we do to ensure that health care bloggers act responsibly when they discuss medical and nursing topics?

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Kim McAllister from the Emergiblog

Amy Romano from Science and Sensibility

Paul Bond from Emergency Nursing Today

Terri Polick from Nurse Ratched's Place

and Jamie Davis of the Nursing Show

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The discussion this week centers around bloggers leaving the social media space because of workplace pressure to stop blogging. Primarily, this is brought up by the stunning news that prominent EMS blogger, Mark Glencorse or the U.K. blog 999Medic.com announced that he was leaving blogging.

What is it about blogging that scares employers so much and what can we do to ensure that health care bloggers act responsibly when they discuss medical and nursing topics?

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Join our panel of special nursing guests as we delve in to this topic.

Kim McAllister from the Emergiblog

Cora Vizcarra of the Infusion Nurse blog

and Jamie Davis of the Nursing Show

Some of the links discussed in this week's show included:

Kentucky nursing student sues university over blog dismissal

Health Blogger Code of Ethics

Change of Shift Nurse Blog Carnival

Interview with Cora Vizcarra about Infusion Nursing on the Nursing Show

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Join our panel of special nursing guests as we delve in to this topic.

Contact us at 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!

Kim McAllister from the Emergiblog

Terri Polick of Nurse Ratched's Place

and Jamie Davis of the Nursing Show

Other guests will be added to the mix as soon as anyone asks to be on the show! Join us if you are a nurse leader, blogger, or just want to chat with us. We'd love to have your opinion heard on the show.

Join our discussion this week with Kim McAllister of the Emergiblog and Terri Polick of Nurse Ratched's Place as we look at several recent stories in the news about nurses. They bring their viewpoints to the table and share them with host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic of the Nursing Show and MedicCast EMS podcast.

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The show this week revolves around these articles found with a simple search for nurse, nursing, and other related topics this week.

Albanian doctor makes the transition to nursing

Nurses as good as doctors in AIDS care monitoring

Specially Trained Nurse Practitioner Detected Same Breast Abnormalities As Surgeon

Share your thoughts using the comments link below. We all look forward to hear your thoughts on this discussion.

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Jamie, Kim, and Terri pick up this portion of the episode looking at a recent new article about the new chief operating officer of Akron's Children's Hospital. We note that she is called an "Ex-Nurse" and wonder why the article's author used that in the headline when a quick bit of research yields a host of nursing accomplishments.

Check out part one of this episode from last week - Suicide and the New Nurse Work Ethic.

Join our discussion this week with Kim McAllister of the Emergiblog and Terri Polick of Nurse Ratched's Place as we look at several recent stories in the news about nurses. They bring their viewpoints to the table and share them with host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic of the Nursing Show and MedicCast podcasts.

Leading off the discussion, we look at a story about a nurse who allegedly encouraged people to commit suicide during online chat discussions. Moving along, Kim is intrigued by a health careers high school starting in Chicago and we wonder if the program moves people into nursing school or just creates CNA's an hospital techs.

We wrap up this portion of the episode with a look at Samson University's huge nursing program in Alabama. Terri and Kim note that all of the graduates in the photo of the recent pinning ceremony are wearing their caps.

We talked for so long that we split the episode into two parts. Check out the rest of the discussion in part two, coming out next week.