My 2 Cents

Workplace Headaches

I received a phone call today from a nurse who is having problems with her nursing co-workers and nursing management. The nurse is a new employee of the facility.

As a new employee of a healthcare facility who is having problems with your nursing co-workers and nurse manager, would you stick it out, stay and send out resumes for other positions outside the facility, stay put and seek to transfer within the facility at a later date, or quit immediately? Do we as nurses stick around at a facility when the signs are there saying its time to move? What do you think?

Nurse Attorneys

I attended The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA) annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois over the weekend. The meeting was very productive and gave me a chance to meet fellow nurse attorneys from around the country. The incoming president of TAANA is Cynthia Mikos, BSN, JD, a certified health law attorney whose law practice in Florida is limited to health and administrative law. TAANA recently published a business and legal guidebook for nurse practitioners which is available on www.taana.org for purchase. Yours truly was a contributor to the publication.

I am proud to be a nurse who is also an attorney. My nursing degree and license are just as important to me as my law degree and license.