You never know where scanning on social media will take you. Recently, I saw a post from a Patient Advocate colleague Lori Schellenberg that caught my eye. Her post said – the willingness to listen is the biggest and most important action we can take! I clicked...
As a nurse, I loved to work 3-11 shifts. One of the tasks we were responsible for was PM care. PM care was the time when we would help our patients get ready for bed. When I worked in ICU, many of our patients were sedated or unconscious, so PM care was when we would...
I got a call from a woman whose husband is in a nursing home for rehabilitation. He is 40 years old and suffered an accident leaving him a tetraplegic. We will call him John. He was in acute rehabilitation and was sent to the nursing home for continued rehab. He likes...
In a recent doctor’s appointment with a client, I learned her liver enzymes were elevated. The doctor seeing her is a hematologist. He ordered a few tests as the client’s chief complaint was extreme fatigue. Once the labs were back, he looked over her...