I had an engaging conversation with Kellyann Curnayn, author of A Good Day in Hell: The Flatlining of Nurses Across America. She is a dedicated, practicing nurse. She told me that nurses do not get paid to take care of patients. They get paid to fill out paperwork. Kellyann has...
Archives: September 2009
New leadership methods could propel patient-/person-centered care
Read our guest blog in Hospital Impact.
Medpedia – New Resource for Alzheimer’s Disease
The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. The Alzheimer’s Disease Community has article pages, discussion boards, Q&A, links to related Communities of Interest on Medpedia, links...
World’s oldest person dies in Los Angeles at 115
A nice tribute to a long quality life.
Cutting Medicare to nursing homes is poor healthcare policy
Here is a guest blog from McKnight’s that again shows how nursing homes are being ignored in the health care reform debate. My opinion has been clear and consistent. Aging in place is great. BUT…this country is ranked 37th in the World Health Organization and the latest study on obesity...
Self – Responsibility: How to Reduce Healthcare Costs for the Elderly
This is a guest blog from Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of nurse practitioner schools . Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson83@yahoo.com One of the things I “preach” about often is the need for self-responsibility. Part of the reason we have a...
No Rest Even When Your Dead – Identity Theft
Came across this and just shook my head. I mean come on people. Where is the moral compass in this country? Identity prowlers comb obituaries. They forward the deceased’s mail which contains an overabundance of personal information, from credit card accounts to bank accounts, which they in turn use. They...
Guest Blog in Long-Term Living Magazine – Leadership Must Change if Person / Patient Centered to take Root
Our post from yesterday is now featured in Long Term Living Magazine’s blog entries. Leadership must change their ways or the experience for patients and residents and staff will not change. Interestingly today I had a wonderful conversation with Kellyann Curnayn. She is a nurse in Orlando and the author...
Leadership Must Change if Person / Patient Centered to take Root
I have been blogging a lot lately about why patient centered care and person centered care have not taken firm root. Readers of the blogs came back to one systemic issue – leadership. A couple of recent Harvard articles might hold the answer to the leadership question. The article, Are...
Active Twitter User Celebrates 104th Birthday
OK I can’t get my 88-year-old mom to look at a computer and here we have dear Ivy Bean in England on Facebook and Twitter with more than 45,000 followers. Read the CNN article here. Then go and read my friend Laura Bramly’s blog about the larger implications and what...