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WHAT WE'RE BLOGGING ABOUT
* In her post "The Many Masks Nursing Students Wear," nursing instructor Lenore Cortez shares her observations about how nursing students handle stress (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-8ql).
* "It's been drilled into our heads that our worth is tied directly into our feedback from our patients, yet we work in conditions where it's almost impossible for that feedback to be positive," writes nurse Kelsay Irby in her post "ER Nurse Who Called 911 for Backup: 'What Are We Afraid Of?'" (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-8pS).
* In her post "Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids: A Panacea?" nursing professor Margaret Wallhagen discusses what nurses should know about these devices, which can now be purchased by those with mild to moderate (not severe) hearing loss (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-8q2).
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ON TWITTER, LINKEDIN, FACEBOOK, AND OUR BLOG
"Nurse-to-patient ratios are not set up to provide the best care. Administrators know this and they are not doing enough about it." "When you have the occasional shift stretched thin enough to deserve combat pay or with a patient that you cannot leave for 10 seconds, you deal with it (and appreciate the normal shifts and the rare 'easy' shift). When every shift is that way . . ." "We need safe patient staffing limits, violence against health care worker bills, metal detectors in facilities, increased security, and for facilities to stop elective cases if they do not have enough nurses."