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Patient Protectors

Chicago Caregiving

When staffing shortages impact patient care, advocates look out for patients’ best interests, says former nurse and current patient advocate Teri Dreher. I explained, patiently, that not only was I a legally designated patient representative, I was also the backup POA for healthcare.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. July 23, 1984, to present. How long have you worked in nursing?

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Their reporting prompted the state of Washington to “issue a public health advisory that singles out the unique risks of methadone” as contributing to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (14). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

2016 89
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Clinical Education – but I don’t have time…

The Nurse Break

I once presented on ‘strategies to implement an education program in your unit’ at a symposium. This can be related to clinical knowledge and skills; professional behaviour such as accessing policy and procedure or respectful interdisciplinary relationships; or the more humanistic skills required within patient care.

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