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A betrayal of patients’ trust

American Nurse

Do you need patients so badly that you’re helping make people sick? This is downright unethical to put these machines in a community health waiting room where after they walk into the exam room, nurses and physicians will advise patients not to eat the exact same products.” Let’s call him Tim. Tim grimaces. No, this is not caring.

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Broken trust

American Nurse

Build a bridge to heal the healthcare workforce Takeaways: The crisis of trust that existed between frontline nurses and leadership before the pandemic continues to worsen with evidence of physical, emotional, and moral suffering./li> The crisis of trust that existed in healthcare before the COVID-19 pandemic has become inescapable.

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What Nurses Need…

Life of a Nurse

The basis of nursing is trust, and if one is unsure about the other team member across the bed/exam table/OR gurney/ICU workspace, that increases collective stress. The world needs a hug; the word compassion is required, but wars, inflation, mass murders, etc., sometimes make locating this essential value difficult.

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Grieving Father’s Plea About Suicide in Nursing

The Relentless School Nurse

The letter is entitled – A Letter to My Abuser and it is written to the healthcare machine that betrayed her trust and belief that she would be cared for as much as she cared for others. In the world of healthcare, nurses tirelessly care for patients day in and day out. She was a nurse.

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A warming planet and human health

American Nurse

Explain action steps nurses can take to educate patients about health and climate breakdown, impact preparedness for climate disasters, and advocate for climate breakdown mitigation and prevention. What can you do now to mitigate and prevent the health effects of climate breakdown? Discuss the language of urgency developed by climate experts.

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‘Couldn’t unsee it’: Organisation of 2023 stands up for vulnerable Aussies

Nursing Review

A nurse pioneer has won HESTA's Organisation of the Year award for bringing healthcare to the street and helping vulnerable Australians. Registered nurse, Sonia Martin, set up Sunny Street in 2018 to help people who'd been disengaged from healthcare and were 'sleeping rough and doing it tough.' I was shocked and overwhelmed with gratitude.

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Forensic Nursing and Domestic Violence – a brief introduction

The Nurse Break

Forensic nurses provide specialised care for patients who experience acute and long-term health consequences associated with victimisation or violence, and/or have unmet evidentiary needs relative to having been victimised or accused of victimisation. Forensic Nursing and Domestic Violence – a brief introduction.