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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Inability of people to obtain appropriate health care services. Lack of education to prevent disease (focus on disease treatment).
Margie Latrella, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, Heartstrong, LLC, New Jersey Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Heartstrong is an educational and consulting business specializing in cardiovascular disease and prevention. Our services include community and professional seminars, and educational products/publications. Seminar topics include: nutrition, weight loss, exercise/fitness, stress relief, risk factors, diagnosis and management of heart disease/stroke/heart failure in women, alternative therapy in the treatment and prevention of heart disease. We can discuss special requests on other health and wellness topics and will customize programs for individual groups. We Want to Help People Live a Longer Healthier Life!"
Heartstrong, LLC
6-05 Saddle River Road #353
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Phone number: 888-343-2780 (extension 101)
E-mail Address: Margie@heart-strong.com
Homepage Address: www.heart-strong.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/latrella
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"The most pressing concern for me is the problem with Managed Care Organizations (MCO's) and government cutbacks and having to do more with less, in less time. This permeates all settings, from acute care hospitals, nursing homes, home care, even impacting care being provided in physician offices. More patient teaching is expected and higher tech care is becoming routine, yet there is less time and personnel available to appropriately meet these needs."
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Lucille "Lou" Addington, RN, CLNC, Florida:"We do medical-legal consulting for attorneys, insurance companies and HMO's, and private individuals. Presuit investigations and affidavits. Expert witness location. Special interest in vaccine damage cases and long term care/elder care issues. My associate and I bring a combined 42 years of professional nursing practice to our cases."
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/addington
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Concerns about the profession include:
- Continued RN staffing issues. There continues to be a slow response/lack of concern and/or understanding by the medical community/government entities of the need to assure safe RN/patient ratios in all health care and health related settings.
- Recruitment of future RN's. I am of the opinion that recruitment has to begin with the very young. I personally was exposed to the hospital setting at a very young age (6-7yr.) when I sometimes tagged along with my grandmother who was a pink lady at our small community hospital. I can remember wanting to be a nurse well before I entered middle school.
- Lack of professionalism by current RN's. In 21yrs of nursing, I have seen way too many nurses who do not act in a professional, helpful, and courteous manner and who do not treat people (especially other nurses) with respect. I suppose this is another reason why I have chosen to start my own business as I can ensure my business will treat clients the way I want to be treated and provide services in a professional manner.
- Rising costs of medical care and pharmaceuticals.
- Lack of readily affordable healthcare (outside of the ER's) and support resources for the elderly on fixed incomes who do not qualify for Medicaid or other government programs.
P.O. Box 555
Conyers, Georgia 30012
Phone number: 770-602-4531
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/dpclnc
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"Changing roles of RN, LPN, HMO, managed care, ANA and how much politics is enough. Definition of professional nurse. Nursing Legalities."
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Atkinson,
Julie, South Carolina:
Specialty Areas: Community Health, Long Term Care
http://www.nursefriendly.com/atkinson
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: My most pressing concern with the profession is lack of regard I perceive for the Nursing profession. The concern that I have with healthcare is that not everyone has the same access to good healthcare.
Dominique Ann Bernard, RN, BSN, Virginia Nurse Entrepreneurs:"My goal is to work from home.
Currently I am employed in a psychiatric facility and I work part time in a geriatric setting. My interests are varied."
http://www.4nursing.com/bernard
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: I am most concerned about the pressing issues of Nurses leaving the field, for a variety of issues, in the face of a historical shortage, and the trend of healthcare facilities to make economic decisions that negatively impact patient outcomes.
Sheryl D. Bisson, R.N., CLNC, California Legal Nurse Consultants:"I offer services to aid in the resolution of medical-legal issues. I work for law firms, insurance companies and healthcare facilities. My services include, but are not limited to: medical record review and analysis; identifying applicable Standards of Care and deviations from the Standards; identifying records, policies and procedures and other essential documents for complete case reviews."
Specialty Areas:
Coronary Care,
Health law,
Intensive Care,
Medical Malpractice,
Personal Injury,
Worker's Compensation
http://www.nursingexperts.com/bisson/
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The undervaluation of nursing by corporate takeover of healthcare threatens access to care and quality of care/safety for all healthcare consumers.
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Wailua Brandman, MSN APRN CS PMHNP, Alternative & Complementary Therapies Psychotherapy, Hawaii Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Private practice of Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Consultation to individuals, businesses and institutions; Traditional and Complementary/Alternative Outpatient psychotherapy with adult individuals, couples, families and groups. Yale Graduate, Author, Lecturer, Community Leader. Ecclectic holistic approach from broad-based background, including Jungian, Freudian, Rogerian (Martha), Newman (Margaret), Watson (Jean), Dossey (Barbara). Holographic Memory Resolution practitioner (see healingdimensions.com)."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/brandman
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: That nurses are made to work in dangerous circumstances r/t poor staffing & too much of a patient load with much sicker patients. Patients are not be cared for adequately because of these issues.
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Laura Burchell-Henson RN, RCP, CCRN, CLNC, Medical-Legal Consultants
Categories: Burn Unit, Critical Care nurse, Emergency Department, Expert Witness, Geriatrics, Homecare, Home Health, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Legal Nurse Consultant, Medical Malpractice, Negligence, Medical Surgical, Nursing Expert, Obstetrics, Operating Room, Surgical, Open Heart (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), Pediatrics, Recovery Room (PACU), Respiratory Therapy, Sub-Acute
http://www.nursingexperts.com/burchell/
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: I am worried re the cutbacks taking place in hospitals as a result of the HMOs and cost-cutting measures. Nurses are asked to do much more with less or unskilled help.
Michelle L. Callan Nurse-Attorney:"Medical-legal consulting and trial assistance to attorneys for Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice cases."
13 Anchor Terrace, Rochester New York 14617
Phone number: 585-266-6574
Fax number: 585-266-6574
mcallan1@rochester.rr.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/callan/
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The influence of HMOs on quality of care over the past few years has been appalling. When health care decisions are made using money as a yardstick many patients come out on the short end. Especially those patients who are uneducated about the kind of health care they can expect for specific illnesses. Cutbacks in health care dollars have eliminated education programs ie diabetes and heart disease in my area. I am seeing more and more complications from these two diseases and the patients I see are much sicker then ten years ago.
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Nancy Carey, RN, CCRN, BS, California Nurses:
Specialty Areas: Recovery Room PACU
http://www.nursefriendly.com/carey/
"Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: I am most concerned with the growing trend of RN, CNA staffing and the phasing out of LPNs. Also the continual Medicare cuts and the likelihood that the whole program will be gone by the time this generation needs it. I am also bothered by the effect the cuts are having on our seniors today."
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Melissa Charleston, LPN, South Carolina Nurses:
Specialty Area: Home Health
http://www.nursefriendly.com/charleston
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The most pressing concern with the nursing profession, is the increased risk of liability with the advancements in technology, and not enough authority to effect changes. Nurses today, are making the same assessments and decisions that Physicians were making 30-40 years ago. Physicians are becoming more of administrators of care, navigating the waters of insurances and just giving a final okay on most nursing assessments. It is my hope that someday healthcare will return back to being a profession for healers, and not insurance administrators.
Joseph Caracci, RN, BSN, MBA, Nursecorp.com, Nursing Agencies, Staffing Software Support, Arizona Nursing Entrepreneurs:"NursingCorp offers serious investors and entrepreneurs the knowledge and assistance needed to enter the nurse staffing industry. We provide assistance establishing health care staffing companies, and development of nursing based software solutions. Our product offerings include a complete Nurse Registry Business Package, Nurse Staffing Software for use by Hospitals and Nurse Registries, Business Consultation, and customized software development. To learn more about how we can assist you. The founder of NursingCorp.com is a former Co-founder and President of a large Phoenix AZ based Nurse Registry."
Nursecorp.com
503 W Myrtle Dr, Chandler AZ 85248
Phone number: 866-211-1167
Fax number: 480-361-7942
E-Mail: jcaracci@nursingcorp.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/caracci
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare:The cost of healthcare on all of us whether we are covered by a group insurance or a goverment agency continues to spiral out of control. I think what concerns most of us thogh is the patient to staff ratios and the safety of the patients under our care. Staffing problems are a complicated issue that must be corrected before our profession will be attractive to young people choosing a career.
Alyce Clark, RN, Caregiver Scrubs, Nursing Uniforms, Nurse-Owned Businesses, Entrepreneurs:"Sales of scrubs and accessories to medical personnel in hospitals, clinics, doctor's offices, dental offices, and veterinary clinics."
Caregiver Scrubs
7130 52nd Way N.
Pinellas Park, Florida 33781
Phone number: 727-667-7180
Fax number: 727-547-9635
E-mail Address: aclark02@tampabay.rr.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/clark
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Understated recognition for the education and knowledge that nurses possess--leading to severe underpayment for our services
Natalie A. Cole, RN, BHSA, CMCN, LNC, West Virginia Legal Nurse Consultants:"I provide medical record reviews and case analyses for attorneys working in medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, and general negligence. My skills and education as a Registered Nurse, in addition to my training as a Legal Nurse
Consultant, eases the burden of other legal team members by allowing them to concentrate on other important areas of a case."
5167 Procious Maysel Road
Procious, West Virginia (WV) 25164
Phone number: (304) 587-7010
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/cole
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"Healthcare has certainly become big business. So many times in big business the social conscious aspect is lost. Healthcare professionals need to lead from the front on getting issues recognized and changed to benefit all. I am worried that all healthcare professionals are not taught to give back something to their community - something we all need to work harder at doing."
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Brigette M. Cutchins, RN, COHN, Colorado:"If you are like many people, you are in the dark about your finances. You pay your bills each month and do your best to prepare for the future. But the truth is, there is only so much money to go around and creating a financial game plan on your own can be overwhelming. PFS can help. A complimentary Financial Needs Analysis can help bring your current financial situation to light. It can show you where your finances stand today and what you need to do to prepare for tomorrow."
1932 S. Cedar Ave
Colorado Springs, Colorado (CO) 80906
Phone number: 866-303-0864 toll free or 719-499-9297
Fax number: 719-495-7100
E-Mail: 4fna@adelphia.net
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/cutchins
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The growing shortage of Nurses in the entire healthcare arena, in every specialty and setting, and the new graduates entering the profession for sometimes different reasons than of those more experienced nurses leaving the profession. Ultimately, nurses use their experience and expertise of the inner workings of the healthcare system to provide quality care to the patients.
Lisa Desimon R.N, D.C, CLNC, Illinois Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Certified Legal Nurse Consultant business, serving as a consulting expert and testifying expert on a variety of medical/legal issues/cases."
7358 Timberwolf Trail
Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/desimon
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: We are still negatively portrayed in the media as hands-maids for doctors. I have never seen a nurse practitioner or forensic nurse portrayed on a T.V. show.
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Baraka Dimson, BSN, New York City Nursing Agencies, Nurse-Owned Businesses:"Staff Nurse Inc. is a staffing agency for nursing homes in the state of New York. We staff nursing homes with qualified licensed practical nurses and registered professional nurses. Our rates are extremely competitive and we offer on-going staff development for our nurses. In addition to this we have a department that offers 5 weeks NCLEX review class for repeat NCLEX test takers only. We offer them the support they need and review in a small and intimate classroom environment. Our NCLEX review classes are so good, if after taking it the graduate nurse is still not successful, we allow him or her to continue taking our review classes up to 1 year until they pass the NCLEX and obtain their license.
312-316 East 149th street
Bronx New York Zip Code: 10452
Phone number: 718-772-6663 Fax number: 718-293-3980
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/dimson
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The failure of hospital administration and insurance companies to recognize the real root of the "nursing shortage" problem. This has been going on for the 25 years I have been an RN, and they just don't get it. Like the other service professions i.e., teacher, firefighters, police, nurses are overworked, underappreciated (until you really need one) and underpaid. From the perspective of a CRNA the answer is blindingly obvious. There is no shortage of nurses wanting to become CRNAs. Why? The median salary for a Graduate Nurse Anesthetist is $113,000. (AANA figure) Start paying nurses what they are worth and there will be no shortage. It's simple supply/demand economics that administrators have ignored for decades.
Patrick Dupont BSN, CRNA, CLNC Alpha Medical-Legal Consulting, Inc.:"25 years as an RN including 22 years as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) with extensive experience in anesthesia administration for surgical procedures including general, orthopedic, neurosurgical, cardiothoracic, vascular, ENT, GYN, trauma, plastic and reconstructive, cosmetic, interventional radiology, labor and delivery including administration and monitoring of labor epidurals, invasive line placement and monitoring, emergency airway management, outpatient and ambulatory surgical procedures, regional anesthetics, conscious sedation and post-anesthesia care.
15585 Ocean Walk Cir. #113
Fort Myers, Florida 33908
Phone: 239-297-9893, Fax: 239-425-1384
amlc@roverusa.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/dupont
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Too few nurses, the acuity of patients is getting higher, too much interference by managed care organizations, Nurses do not get paid for what they accomplish and do everyday.
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Nancy Emma, RN, LNC, MLC Legal Nurse Consulting Services:"Screening of cases for
merit, pagination & organization of medical records, Expert witness, Obtain expert witnesses for lawyers, identification of adherences to and departures from Standards of Care. Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Workman's Compensation both Defense and Plaintiff issues."
Specialty Areas: California Nurse Entrepreneurs, Consulting, Expert Witness, Emergency Department Nursing, Expert Witness (And Locating of Same), Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Workman's Compensation
http://www.nursingexperts.com/emma/
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare): Staffing ratios, inexperienced and temporary personnel, unlicensed assistive personnel, economic policies and priorities.
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Debra L. Fore, RN, MSN, Vista HealthCare Consulting:"Legal Nurse Consultant, primarily Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury, Social Security Claimants' Representative."
Specialty areas: Adult Critical Care, Disability, Legal Nurse Consultant, Medical Malpractice, Oncology, Personal Injury, Renal Dialysis, Social Security Claims Telemetry-Step Down
http://www.nursingexperts.com/fore/
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Understaffing and inability to meet needs of patients due to pressure.
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Gibbons, John, RGN, Nursesreconnected:"A global service to help nurses find and contact old colleagues. It's free to register and search the growing database of thousands of nurses
worldwide."
Specialty Areas: Nurse Tracers,Trackers, Nursing Reunions, Orthopaedics
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/gibbons
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The nursing shortage... how can expect anyone to even "want" to be a nurse while we continue to "eat our young" and bicker amongst ourselves? It's a sad state of affairs and the entire nation will suffer for it. I am taking a step back to put it all in perspective, but I hope to somehow help in the end.
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Deborah Hafernick, RN, CLNC, Hafernick Legal-Nurse Consulting, Texas Legal Nursing Consultants:"Medical-legal consulting practice in
Houston, Texas, specialing in evaluating cases for merit and interpretation of the medical record for both plaintiff and defense attorneys to help them save money by organizing their cases faster and win because they understand them. Also research and provide medical literature/standards of care for issues that support their case.
Testifying expert identification and location, demonstrative evidence development, etc."
Specialty Areas: Cardiac Cathetherization Lab, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Education, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Social Security Disability Claims, Toxic Torts, Workers Compensation
http://www.nursingexperts.com/hafernick
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The amount of people that are joining the profession for the wrong reasons. People know of the nursing shortage, and know that jobs in this profession are plentiful, but some people would make a better dog warden than a nurse.
Angela Halley RN, BSN, CLNC, River View Legal Nurse Consulting:"We specialize in providing legal nurse consulting services to attorneys (plaintiff and defense), insurance companies, workman's compensation firms, and individual institutions for risk management services. Our firm has over 20 years of nursing experience in psychiatric, labor and delivery, pulmonary, neurology, medical/surgical nursing, and many areas of nursing management. River View Legal Nurse Consultants provides a time efficient and cost effective answer to your legal nurse consulting needs."
64 Deenie Dr
Bidwell, Ohio 45614
Phone number: 740-245-9891, Fax number: 740-245-0153
E-Mail: angelahalleyrn@wmconnect.com
http://www.legalnursingconsultant.org/halley
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"Limited care, abuse of the system, inability to "climb ladder of success".
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Lisa M. Heck, R.N., Legal Nurse Consultant, Maryland Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Legal Nurse Consulting,
expert in neonatology and Pediatrics Emergency."
http://www.nursefriendly.com/heck/
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Lack of self respect I see in other nurses. Long hours, little pay, and lack of respect by MDs have taken a toll on the nursing profession. I believe it is time to take back our autonomy and whip the healthcare system back into shape. It is time to focus on quality of life rather than longivity.
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Lesli Hannah RN, BSN, First Nurse Incorporated:"First Nurse Inc. is a nurse owned and operated temporary medical staffing company. Our goal is to provide quality nursing care to ensure the continuum of care in long term care facilities in Maryland. We also provide nurses to area hospitals. We believe in the value of excellent nursing care & reward our nurses with monetary rewards as well as dignity and respect."
8132 Artie Kemp Road
Frederick, Maryland, 21701
Phone number: 301-865-7120, Fax number: 301-865-7129
E-Mail: lehan@direcway.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/firstnurseinc
My most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare are: 1) Nurses are not respected or paid for
for their knowledge and skills. 2) In healthcare I am concern about Managed Care, HMO, and reimbursement. 3) Nursing trend, patient to nurse ratio, and the use of non professionals in the hospital
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Mary Rosabell Higgins, BSN, Registered Nurse, M. R. Higgins & Associates Legal Nurse Consultants:"M. R. Higgins & Associates-Legal Nurse Consultants, a professional service company specializing in litigation review. Established in 1997, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Services include: comprehensive medical research; investigation of medical records to determine accuracy and or tampering; translation of medical terminology and deposition reports; and, interpretation of health science literature and documents. Consultation also comprises developing chronological summary reports from medical records. Reports often include analytical commentary.
- Chart Audits, Concurrent Chart Audits, Bill Reviews, Post-pay,
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/audits
- Medical Billing, http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/billing
- Medical Coding,
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/coding/
http://www.nursingexperts.com/higgins/
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: That nurses are just going back to school to be nurse practitioners because they think theyre helping the profession/patients. Yet they are really reacting to third party payer control of health care. And we need to get control back from them--whos qualified to provide or decide health care Insurance companies or health care professionals
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Virginia Janovsky, RN, MN, MS, California Nurse Entrepreneurs:
Specialty Areas:
Cardiology,
Continuing Education (CEU),
Intensive Care Unit (ICU),
Medical Surgical
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/janovsky/
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: My most
pressing concern re healthcare is that someone I love dearly may get sick.
It has happened before and it was frightening.
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Lack of adequate staffing to ensure patient safety, inadequate referral processes through managed care organizations/insurance companies, lack of personal professionalism of healthcare staff.
Diane L. Kensler, RN, COHN, CLNC, New Jersey Legal Nurse Consultants:"Legal Nurse Consulting business serving
attorneys, managed care companies, and insurance companies."
http://www.nursingexperts.com/dkensler/
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The way nurses are treated. They are not treated as the independent thinkers they are and they are not treated with the respect they deserve. I am concerned about how the profession is going to attract young people into the profession.
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LeaRae Keyes, RN, BSN, PHN, CDMS, CCM, Nurse Entrepreneur Network,
Minnesota Nursing Entrepreneurs:The network provides online and telephonic training, networking, and coaching. Our focus is to provide marketing and business solutions for nurse entrepreneurs so they can succeed and prosper. We also strive to foster an environment of sharing and support amoung our members."
Categories: Associations for Entrepreneurs, Case Management, Coaching, Education, Home Health Care, Nurse-Owned Business.
http://www.nursingentreprneurs.com/keyes/
"Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: For the profession, the clinical setting has become so difficult that most nurses want to get away from it. I personally am torn that I no longer have direct contact with patients. However, I have no desire to work in a hospital with the twelve hour days, the patient load, difficult doctors. The paperwork is so heavy that time is taken up doing paper work instead of direct patient care. Nurses in the clinical setting are caught between the doctor, the patient and the patient's family, and administration. Clinic jobs are less stressful, but don't pay very well.
Healthcare - I believe this county is in desperate need of some type of national healthcare program. It could be an elective program so that people might choose between private insurers or government insurance. I feel that middle class people do not have access to health care - at this point it is more accessible to the very rich or very poor."
Merrie A Kidd, R.N., B.S.N., Medical Records Review, Louisiana Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Medical Records Review produces thorough and comprehensive reviews of medical records to assist attorneys who
are preparing for trial. The final written product includes a chronological timeline corresponding to a tabbed index of the medical
records, an introduction that defines medical terms and procedures, a narrative summary of the medical record, and a discussion of the merits
of the case utilizing the complaint or petition for damages as a reference point. Additional services include preparation of draft
submissions for medical panel review and preparation of interrogatories
for depositions."
http://www.nursingeexperts.com/merrie
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Growing lack of interest in a nursing career. Nursing shortages are at crucial levels across this nation. Many nurses have licenses in escrow because they are burnt- out or just tired of the misuse of nursing talents. Respect for nurses has been a long suffered issue that will only change when nurse unite and no longer fear supporting each other. Make your voice known. Join and take active roles in nurse organizations.
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Gerry A. Kinjorski, BS, RN, CLNC, Aidant Research Nurses, Inc., Florida Nursing Entrepreneurs:"Aidant Research Nurses, Inc., is a legal nurse consulting firm that serves the patient-client and the attorney. If you have questions concerning negligence or medical-malpractice, personal injury or assault, toxic tort, worker's comp or any medical injury you may need Aidant."
7 So. Aurora Ave.
Clearwater, Florida (FL) 33765-3517
Phone number: 727-448-0455
Fax number: 727-447-8012
aidantresearch@aol.com http://www.nursingexperts.com/aidant/
"Poor healthcare system is turning out poor healthcare to patients."
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Shawna Lewis, RN. CPC, LDA Consulting, Tennessee Nurse Entrepreneurs:
Specialty Areas:
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: You want me to pick MOST pressing? OY!
I am concerned that nurses are expected to maintain rolls of personal and professional integrity and leadership, be aggressive patient advocates, maintain and practice a high level of clinical expertise, complete complex, multitudinous tasks of documentation, meet ever-growing requirements for risk management and privacy and still be low man on the totem-pole in terms of professional prestige, broad-based respect and monetary renumeration.
Consider:
What gets cut when a hospital's in a financial crunch? Nursing, both in staffing numbers and pay.
Auto workers who strike for more money have other unions walk out on sympathy strikes. Nurses who strike for patient safety (and God forbid fair pay) are vilified.
Patients are admitted to hospitals for one reason: To receive nursing care. Without nursing, hospitals are just very large, very expensive outpatient clinics.
And don't even get me started in healthcare because the internet is just not that big!!!!
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Dorothy Lowry, RN, Wild Women Sewing Consortium, Georgia Nurse Entrepreneurs:
Gifts For Nurses, Accessories, Custom Embroidery, Logo items
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/lowry
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The nursing shortage and the weak skills of many of our nursing students (basic math, reading and writing skills). Grade inflation is causing weak students to be admitted and retained. Our "best and brightest" are not interested in nursing as a career. Many students are not coming to the profession from their "hearts" but rather to make money or to work 12 hour shifts. Students with disabilities, with a strong willingness to practice, are often turned away from nursing. Despite passage of the ADA, workplace accommodations for nurses with disabilities remains poor.
Donna Maheady, Ed.D., ARNP, ExceptionalNurse.com:"A resource network for nurses and nursing students with disabilities. We provide links to disability related organizations, mentors, employment opportunities, financial aid, continuing education, books, equipment, legal issues, research, related articles as well as support and career counseling.
13019 Coastal Circle
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410
Phone number: (561) 627-9872
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/exceptional
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Nurses are required to spend a large amount of time documenting and protecting themselves legally, taking time away from patients. The nursing shortage is a concern both for the heavily burdened nurse providing care and the patient in need of quality care. The overuse of pharmaceuticals and the lack of focus on prevention. The cost of preventing a heart attack versus treating a heart attack. The healthcare system practices an expensive emergency medicine approach to most health care issues. Lack of personal responsibility for our own health in the general population is driving the cost of healthcare up for everyone of us.
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Kim Markuly, RN, Living Well Solutions:"Consulting and marketing business focused on true prevention with Wellness programs, products and services.
Customizing and integrating proven Wellness programs for a wide range
of healthcare providers, clinics and businesses interested in promoting
health and preventing disease."
5001 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, Texas 75088
markuly@nursefriendly.com
livingwellsolutions.net
http://www.nursefriendly.com/markuly
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: That nursing profession is too divisive. Nurses should work together to form a major power base to have more influence on healthcare and pay.
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Stephen Motyka, RN, BSN, MD, Medmal Consulting of Michigan:"Medmal Consulting Of Michigan is a Legal Nurse Consulting firm that is dedicated to providing our attorney clients with affordable Medicolegal Research."
Specialty Areas: Medical-legal Consulting, Military Nursing, Nurse Paralegals
http://www.nursingexperts.com/motyka
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Increased workload for nurses due to nursing shortage. Increasing risk for errors/lawsuits due to the same. Decline in care for patients due to increased use of unlicensed assistive personnel.
Teddi Nuss, RN, Mid-South Litigation Support Services:"We use our knowledge and experience to help attorneys de-mystify the medical issues in legal cases. We provide screening for merit, medical
record review, interpretation and organization, time line chronologies, case summary, medical literature research, and written reports (on paper
and/or disk). We collaborate with attorneys to develop a cost effective and winning aproach to the medical issues in their cases."
1534 California Avenue Lot N
Camden
Arkansas (AR)
71701
Phone: 870-836-1156
Fax: 870-836-1185
teddinuss@cei.net
http://www.nursingexperts.com/nuss
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Healthcare in the USA has realy gotten out of hand, very expensive. I see a disturbing trend among hospitals that require more and more from nurses and they require nurses to get it all done in the same 12 hours as before. It seems to be all about moving patients along as fast as possible with little or no care as to what the patient thinks or continuity of care.
Clay Smith, RN, Sheetclamps.com LLC:"We provide a truely unique and patent pending invention to hospitals that stops stretcher sheets from falling."
1726 Edgewater drive
Edgewater, Florida 32132
E-mail Address: sheetclamps@jocularity.com
http://www.SheetClamps.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/sheetclamps
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: We are
a small community hospital and I worry that with 4 hospitals in the area
that our census will fall. We are the only level 2 neonatal intensive care
hospital in a wide area so that helps.
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Lack of
respect by public other health professional. Lack of moral being seen in
hospitals. Downsizing higher pt to staff ratio more paper work.
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Ronald Parlee, LVN, California:
Specialty Area: Geriatrics
http://www.nursefriendly.com/parlee
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Healthcare is expanding and growing exponentially. We, as nurses need to be flexible, skilled, and open to fill unique niches to meet the needs of an ever changing society.
Victoria Pettograsso, LPN, BS, MS, Coastal Care Nursing Associates:"Private nurse Ownership assures our patients of superior nursing care and personalization. Presently, we are expanding our horizons into the nurse registry-consulting field. We would like to help you set up your own nurse registry. Time saved in policy and procedure development can yield earlier profits."
1525 S. Tamiami Trail Suite 603
Venice, Florida 34285
Phone: 941-492-4474, Fax: 443-342-2493
CoastalCare@nursingentrepreneurs.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/pettograsso
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: My most pressing concern is putting inexperienced nurses in critical care fresh out of college. They lack the experience necessary to work these areas. When we get a trauma in they panic and puts the patient and other nurses at risk. The saying a nurse is a nurse is a nurse is not true. Areas of nursing are to specialized and nurses need adequate training. The shortage of nurses has put the emphasis on filling vacancy's with anyone with a license.
- Patty Olson, RN, BSN, MBA, Independent RN Services, Wisconsin Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Independent contracting to hospitals. Specializing in ER and ICU."
1514 Stacy Lane Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin 53538
kpolson@compufort.com
608-449-4680
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/olson
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Would like to improve health care, standards and staffing issues.
Maureen Richards, RN, MS, CCRN, CHPN, CLNC, Florida Legal Nurse Consultants:"Maureen Richards & Associates, Inc. offers Certified Legal Nurse Consulting services to organizations in need of medical records review, interpretation or analysis. We offer services for plaintiff as well as defense.
821 Overbrook Dr.
Fort Walton Beach
Florida 32547
Phone number: 850-863-9913, Fax number: 850-863-8413
http://www.legalnursingconsultant.org/richards
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: I feel that lack of corporate response and support is the greatest concern for the nursing profession. No matter what clinical setting you are in, you are always limited in what you can do by corporate policy and directives. There is little exchange of ideas for the improvement of patient care or employee benefits. Even tiny tokens of appreciation for my staff had to go through corporate, and were often denied due to "budgetary restrictions." (Which is appalling, given their 6 figure incomes!) Nurses and ancillary staff continue to be under paid and overworked. This is not going to change unless those at the top start to listen to us peons!
Angela M Rowe, RN, LNC, GCM, Senior Care Solutions, Alabama Nursing Entrepreneurs:"Senior Care Solutions provides Geriatric Care Management Services to aging adults and their families in Central Alabama. Our goal is to help seniors and disabled individuals to obtain the assistance they need to maintain safety, dignity, and quality of life. Senior Care Solutions provides advocacy, evaluation, education, and support services to seniors in Alabama."
3049 Lansdowne Drive
Montgomery Alabama 36111
Phone number: 334-834-9483
Fax number: 214-279-6602
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/rowe
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The devaluing of professional nurses by institutions such as hospitals. Also the fragmented tier of types of nurses - lack of uniformity. RE healthcare- cost before quality and safety.
Suzanne Schiltz, RN, BSN, Texas Nurse Entrepreneurs:
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/schiltz
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: I feel the patients are suffering due to the shortage quality nurses and the demands that are put on us as nurses, we work long hours and most time without taking breaks or lunch, so that our patients needs will be met.
Tirzah Silver, LPN, Essential Staffing, LLC, Nurse Owned Businesses, Nursing, Staffing Agencies:" Providing temporary staffing solutions to the Phoenix Metro area Hospitals and Nursing homes.
Looking for quality RN's, LPN's, and CNA's.
153 W. Desert Ct
Gilbert, AZ 85233
Phone number: (480) 507-3797, Fax number: (480) 926-2502
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/silver/
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"Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The replacement of RN s with unlicensed people resulting in the compromising of patient s care in order to save money . The main focus and goal is not the safety and care of the patient. the main concern is to MAKE MONEY. It has almost come to the point which forces nurses to make a choice. To remain in hospitals and keep your mouth shut and compromise your own integrity by overlooking the changes that are taking place which do not allow a nurse to practice the patient oriented nursing we are taught and believe in. Or we have to choose to leave the hospital setting and find other areas to practice in."
Slovensky
Trisha RN CCRN LNC, Texas:"Medical-Legal Consultant, Medical Bill Analysis, Testifying Expert."
Specialty Areas: Critical Care, Medical Legal
Consulting, Medical
Bill Auditing, Expert Witness
http://www.nursingexperts.com/slovensky/
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: That nurses will leave the health care industry for more of a business career. The idea of being a nurse is not as glamorous as it used to be. We work long hours, short staff, less pay, overtime, take cuts in pay just to keep a float. There are no incentives to continue with CEU's for most facilities no longer pay for them. This is a big issue and does not keep the nurses up to date with healthcare. You have to be on too many committees within your facility in order to get a raise. They don't care about your family and if you get to spend quality time with them, as long as the floor has a warm body to give nursing care.
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Kathryn Spilker RN, BSN, LNC, Lifeline Medical/Legal Consulting L.L.C.:"As Legal Nurse Consultants, we use our
nursing experience, and knowledge of legal issues in preparing cases related to health care issues. Screen cases for merit, prepare
chronologies, summaries, timelines and analysis of the medical records. Identify standards of care, causation issues, locate experts, research and
review medical data and literature. Assist attorneys with all aspects of discovery and trial preparation. The success of your medically related
cases relies on qualified, detailed, and accurate assessment of the facts.
3034 Ridgetop Ct., St. Peters, Missouri 63376
E-Mail: educate5@verizon.net
Homepage Address: http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/spilker/
Clinical Experience: Home Health, Mother/Baby, well baby, Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, Special Care Nursery, Pediatrics
Specialty Areas: Criminal Justice, Legal Nurse Consultants, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Experts, Personal Injury, Standards of Care, Workers Compensation, Toxic Torts, Wrongful Death
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: The great demands and stress of understaffing and what that means to patient care outcomes.
Pamela Steinacher, RN, CLNC, Illinois Legal Nurse Consultants:"Assist plaintiff and defense attorneys with injury-related cases by reviewing for merit, standards of care, duty, breach of duty, causation and damages. Location of appropriate experts, medical literature research, IME's where appropriate, assist with demonstrative evidence, deposition questions and interrogatories. Screen records for missing records or tampering; assist in any way that is deemed necessary and appropriate to win cases."
http://www.legalnursingconsultant.org/steinacher
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Staffing ratio's, pay, retirement, entry level RN knowledge base.
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Mathew Stanley, RN, MSN, Michigan Nurses:
Specialty areas:
- Case Management,
http://www.nursefriendly.com/ccm/
Nurse Educator, http://www.nursefriendly.com/educators
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Carolyn Strimike RN, MSN, CCRN, APNPC, APN-C, Heartstrong, LLC:"Heartstrong is an educational and consulting business specializing in cardiovascular disease and prevention. Our services include community and professional seminars, and educational products/publications. Seminar topics include: nutrition, weight loss, exercise/fitness, stress relief, risk factors, diagnosis and management of heart disease/stroke/heart failure in women, alternative therapy in the treatment and prevention of heart disease. We can discuss special requests on other health and wellness topics and will customize programs for individual groups. We Want to Help People Live a Longer Healthier Life!"
Heartstrong, LLC
6-05 Saddle River Rd #353
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Toll Free: 1-888-3HEART0 (Main)
1-888-343-2780 (Fax)
E-mail: info@heart-strong.com
http://www.heart-strong.com
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: With managed care hospital admissions have decreased greatly and I foresee more nurse being out of jobs. One of my biggest concerns is taking care of AIDS patients because even though I use universal precautions if I accidentally get stuck with a dirty needle Ill probably get the virus and then worry about giving it to my husband.
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"Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Nursing shortage and the fact that current nurses are discouraging others from becoming a nurse. Also increased paperwork for bedside nurses. It is very difficult to provide full nursing care because of the mounds of paperwork required. New forms arrive frequently."
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Janet Zarzour, RN,
Tennessee Nurses:
Specialty Area: Labor & Delivery
http://www.nursefriendly.com/zarzour
Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare:
First I am very concerned that nurses can obtain a license via an online education and then take a State Board via computer center in just a few hours. It escapes me as to how one can expect these graduates to care for patients in a safe environment. I find it truly frightening - especially in today’s' health care environment where inpatients are so much sicker then they were years ago.
Second, I am very concerned about nursing ratios. We need to keep ratios so that patients can be provided the care they need and deserve. Not providing enough nursing hours seems to frequently be a theme in the malpractice cases I see.
Lastly, I am concerned about the foreign nurses who are being brought to this country, promised a great future and again, are not being properly prepared. I do not believe they really know and understand what they are liable for. I was in a deposition with a foreign ICU nurse - we struggled to do a basic deposition as the nurse could not communicate. We needed an interrupter. To think of her caring for a critically ill patient with everything in English, is beyond scary. I felt very sad for her in that she was found accountable for a horrible patient outcome - and I really do not believe she had any idea of the position she had put herself in.
Tricia West, RN, BSN, MBA/HCM, LNC, P.J. West & Associates, California Legal Nurse Consultants:"PJWA has been doing medical legal consulting since 1980 in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice, worker's compensation, product liability, Medicare Fraud, Insurance billing Fraud and Risk Management for both the defense and plaintiff. Our goal is to provide you with ethical, timely and exceptional support services. We can make your job easier by assisting with the evaluation of cases for merit, conduct extensive medical legal research, review medical records and provide expert testimony in all specialty areas of nursing."
http://www.legalnursingconsultant.org/west
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: My most pressing concern is the shortage in nursing. I have noticed it in my career thus far and only expect it to get worse. Instead of raising the pay to recruit nurses, hospitals are hiring more assistive type help and accepting lower educated nurses. The patients are the ones who suffer the most and then the nurses get burned out and leave.
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Your most pressing concerns with the profession and healthcare: Future of nursing and quality of patient care in an increasing managed care environment.
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