Health Coaches, @ShahinaLakhani @loriminkyrad @nursekeith @theyoganurse Entrepreneurs by Category, Nursing Entrepreneurs
April 9, 2012 in Bloggers & Blogs, Career Alternatives For Nurses, Legal Advocacy For Nurses, Legal Nurse Consultants, Nurse Entrepreneurs By Category, Nurse Leaders, Nursing Blogs, Nursing Coaches, Nursing Continuing Education, Nursing Entrepreneurs, Patient Advocacy, Patient Education, Specialty Nurses, Theresa Brown RN, Yoga Nursing
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Patricia Iyer MSN RN LNCC, Patricia Iyer Associates, Avoid Medical Errors, LLC and Med League Support Services, Inc.:”Patricia Iyer Associates provides legal nurse consultants with the critical information they need to succeed in their roles. Avoid Medical Errors teaches the public what they need to know to stay healthy and to be informed patients and not victims of medical errors. It provides a free magazine for the public, Avoid Medical Errors Magazine. Med League Support Services, Inc. assists attorneys with the medical issues of their cases. We specialize in medical malpractice and personal injury cases, and supply expert witnesses and medical analysis in the form of timelines, chronologies and medical summaries.” 260 Route 202-31, Suite 200 Flemington, NJ 08822 Phone number: 908-788-8227 E-mail Address: patriciaiyer@gmail.com Blogs:
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Shahina Lakhani, RN, MSN, ThroughLifeAndDeath.com, @ShahinaLakhani, Georgia Nurse Entrepreneurs:”Personal empowerment coaching for people going through major life change and serious illness. Support and coaching for caregivers and terminally ill. Personal empowerment/self help book: The forbidden love. Speaker on Personal empowerment, issues in nursing, hospice and palliative care and how to provide holistic care for the sick and the dying. Working on books on End of life care.” 3232 Westbrook Trace Lawrenceville Georgia 30044 Phone: 678-994-1843 Social Media (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, etc)
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http://www.ThroughLifeAnd Death.com http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/lakhani
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Lori ‘Minky’ Radcliffe, RN, BS, CFNC, CFPC, Founder of Certified Fitness Nurse™ Academy, @loriminkyrad:”At CertifiedFitnessNurseCoach.com we are not personal trainers who happen to be nurses. We show nurses how to stay in the health care industry and promote exercise within a ‘not-so-healthy’ pre-diabetic population;and NOT try to be a nurse in the fitness ‘percieved healthy’ industry. Just as waist reduction is 20% exercise and 80% diet; Certified Fitness Nurse™ Coaches are 20% fitness and 80% nursing in our practice. We teach a physical-environmental-financial-social-emotional model… like a nursing assessment.
We offer a 23-hour certification course for nurses who are fitness enthusiasts, who want to help pre-diabetics, with a specifically designed program for them, that will improve their health and reduce their waists in a sustainable manner. This is done through a 12-week group coaching course via the computer, video and telephone. We also teach you how to get started with only a few clients working part-time, from home and making full time money in a scalable business model. The physician and other health care professionals are actually where we get our clients and we utilize a fitness nursing assessment to determine the right minimum effective dose (M.E.D.) of diet, exercise and supplementation, the right client and the right time, which are the 3 Rights of a Certified Fitness Nurse™ Coach.” Street Address:P.O. Box 398 Eatontown NJ 07724 E-mail Address: info@fitnessnursing.com Blogs: http://www.certifiedfitnessnursing.com Social Media (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, etc) https://www.facebook.com/CertifiedFitnessNurse?sk=wall http://www.linkedin.com/in/loriminkyradcliffe http://www.twitter.com/loriminkyrad
Homepage Address: http://www.CertifiedFitnessNurseCoach.com
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Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, Nurse Keith Coaching, New Mexico Nurse Entrepeneurs, Nurse Coaches:” Nurse Keith Coaching provides professional coaching servicesfor nurses and nursing students. My services include health and wellnesscoaching, work-life balance, burnout prevention, burnout recovery, careercoaching, and life coaching. The majority of my coaching sessions are conductedvia telephone and Skype, although some face-to-face sessions are possible forclients living in Northern New Mexico. The development of workshops andwebinars is currently in process.” 2300 West Alameda, D7 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
Blogs:Digital Doorway: http://digitaldoorway.blogspot.com E-mail Address: nursekeith@gmail.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NurseKeithCoaching LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10264609&trk=tab_pro Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/nursekeith Homepage: http://nursekeith.com http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/carlson
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Elaine Gaither, RN, Energy From Within, LLC:”Elaine has years of experience in adolescent psychiatric nursing, Youth Ministry, and wellness coaching. However, her most rewarding role is being a Mom to her two sons, Andy age 25 and Tony age 20. To say that she comes from a “been there done that perspective” is an understatement. During the challenging times, she remembered to implement the healing powers of humor, creativity and play. Elaine has learned the value of being open, being flexible and seeing things in a new perspective. Her humor allows her to reframe situations in a positive light and the ability to step aside from situations into a larger context of lessons and opportunities.” Elaine Gaither, RN P.O. Box 78484, Indianapolis, IN 46278 317.297.7650 gaitherelaine@gmail.com http://www.yourparentpartner.com/elaine-gather-welcome/
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Amber Keinath, Registered Nurse and Health Coach:”Amber is a Registered Nurse and Health Coach who is very passionate about educating and inspiring women to be healthy for life. She started her nursing career working in the medical, postpartum & newborn, and pediatric specialties in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Amber continued her education by completing her Master’s Degree in Nursing with an emphasis in Wellness Promotion and becoming certified as a Health Coach. From Hospital Nurse to Health Coach: During Amber’s nursing career, she began to question her ability to help people in the hospital. She witnessed many people get discharged from the hospital with more medications only to wind up readmitted a few days later. People were not getting healthier despite all the care provided. She felt there was a better way to help these people.” Keinath, Amber 11102 Donita Ct Fredericksburg, Virginia 22407 United States (661) 809-0662 amberkeinath@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/createwithamber LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amberkeinath Twitter: http://twitter.com/AmberKeinath Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AmberKeinath http://amberkeinath.com/
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Annette Tersigni RN, Yoga Nursing®, @theyoganurse:”I am the founder of Yoga Nurse Medical Yoga and Stress Management and am the creator of the enlightening new field of Yoga Nursing® and the Yoga Nursing Institute. Yoga Nursing is the marriage of modern nursing science with the ancient science of yoga. My programs are endorsed by lots of doctors and health care providers as a safe therapy to decrease pain and suffering and help folks to find peace instead of going to pieces. I have dedicated the past 16 years educating people around the world on leading healthier, spiritual lifestyles and with a dose of tough love and loads of laughter helped them to WAKE UP and GET CONSCIOUS NOW.
I am a sought after no barriers heart felt speaker, coach, teacher and writer and am featured extensively in the media including in the Associated Press and on NBC, CBS, Fox News affiliates and have been interviewed on national TV by Arielle Ford as one of America’s Experts. I am producing, writing, and acting in several DVD documentary/educational projects: I am training and coaching other nurses, yoga teachers and health professionals throughout the USA and Canada to be Yoga Nursing Therapists and I lead fantabulous Yoga and Juice fasting Makeover Retreats on the magnificent Pyrate laden Crystal Coast of North Carolina. My programs our hip, conscious, filled with hilarious humor, enlightening and designed to inspire and leave a legacy. This is the most prolific, jamming and juicy time of my life and I get to do it all by serving others. SERVING RULES!” Street Address: 103 short st apt. E Beaufort, North Carolina, 28516 E-mail Address: theyoganurse@gmail.com Phone: 252.725.1924 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYogaNurse?v=info Homepage Address: http://www.yoganurse.com http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/tersigni
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RN Guardian’s Position Statement on Registered Nurse #AmandaTrujillo’s Accusation from the Board of Registered Nursing #nurseup
April 9, 2012 in A "Position Statement" on the "Amanda Trujillo, A Position Statement On Amanda Trujillo, Amanda Trujillo, Arizona, Arizona State Board of Nursing, Banner Health, Banner Health Arizona, Board of Nursing license accusations against nurses, Board of Nursing license accusations against nurses, California State Board of Nursing, Comments on The Amanda Trujillo RN Situation, Del E. Webb Medical Center, Hospitals & Healthcare Systems, Jennifer Coalson-Perez License Defenders, Legal Advocacy For Nurses, License Defense Firms, Nurse Abuse, Nurse Bullying, Nurse Intimidation, Nursing Blogs, Position Statement Requests, RN is Respectfully Requested (Second Request), RNGuardian, State Boards of Nursing, Sun City
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I am the Executive Director for a California based RN License Defense Firm called RN Guardian. Although I am not an attorney, I handle the intake for every single RN license defense case that comes in and I work with our Chief Legal Counsel to assign those cases to the attorneys most familiar with the specific issue at hand. Because I handle phone calls from 100s of nurses a year and I actually listen to their issues, I am likely the most informed person in California with regards to the devastating results of Board of Nursing license accusations against nurses. Most of our cases are a result of first time DUI’s, many are gross negligence accusations and a number of them are similar to Amanda’s: a complaint for acting outside the scope of one’s practice.
While outrageous and seemingly unjust, Amanda’s situation is not unique. I have stacks and stacks of files in my office with Accusations from the California BRN which include horribly damning language against the nurse, much of which, according to the nurse, is stretched, fabricated, embellished or just downright wrong. These accusations are not sent to me by the client. They don’t have to be subpoenaed. They aren’t sent to our lawyers because we are the named counsel of record, no. They are public record easily accessible on the BRN’s website for everyone including my grandma and 11 year old son to read. Keep in mind, at this stage they are still only ACCUSATIONS. Nothing has been proven, but regardless, the accusation with its condemning statements is there for all to see. What about being innocent until proven guilty? Is this a fair process? Or is this abuse?
Boards of Nursing are necessary to protect the public from dangerous nurses. Their premise for existing is a noble one. We’ve all heard the horror stories: nurses stealing patient’s medication to the detriment of the patient, abusive nurses who continue practicing after harming their patients, people posing as nurse practitioners and practicing without so much as nurse assistant certificate. Nursing Boards are under the umbrella of state departments’ of consumer affairs and just like you would want your car mechanic flagged for sabotaging your transmission so he could make money fixing it, you want your health care providers held responsible for putting patients at risk. Amanda was accused of making mistakes that could have potentially led to patient harm, and she was reported to the Board.
As the protector of the public, it was the Board’s responsibility and its duty to investigate the complaint against Amanda. They have paid investigators either on staff or contracted staff who investigate these complaints. These investigators are former public safety officers, DEA agents and district attorney investigators. Basically they know what they are doing and they know how to find evidence. Their job is made so much easier by the fact that damning evidence against an RN is so easy to come by: the complainant (usually the hospital) has all the records, charts, witnesses, etc. All the nurse has is her word. If anyone reviews a nurse’s performance, somewhere along the line they will find some frivolous procedural error, a charting mistake, a med discrepancy; busy humans under stress will eventually make a mistake. This is where the Board should have used its discretion to drop the entire thing against Amanda, but they didn’t. They found something they could hang on to and they dug in deep. This is what is happening to Amanda and tragically, what happens to thousands of other nurses. If someone is getting thrown under the proverbial bus, it is almost always the nurse. Once the investigator finds a “mistake” or is able to substantiate the complaint (and they always do), the Board of Nursing will file a formal complaint or accusation against the nurse. This is what goes public. This is what ruins the nurse’s life.
Now herein lies the question with regards to Amanda and other nurses’ in her position: should the accusation be made public record before anything is proven? The accusation can have a detrimental effect on a nurse’s career, regardless of whether or not the complaint is true. She can be terminated if she is an “at will” employee, simply because the employer doesn’t want to deal with it. She can be shunned by her colleagues and co-workers for untrue statements in a complaint. It can ruin her life- even if it is all a lie. But can’t the same be said for the “alleged” criminal who is arrested for grand theft, booked into jail, whose reputation and family and job are ruined and his picture and broadcast across the evening news, but later found innocent and all charges dropped? Isn’t the Board simply following the same path as the justice system?
Maybe at the beginning, but that is where the similarities end, at least in California. Where the evening news might cover the story that the theft suspect was exonerated, the nurse will get no such statement; the accusation will just be pulled and her license never disciplined. Had the theft suspect been required to go to trial, he would have been judged by a fair and impartial jury of his peers. The nurse gets judged by a self righteous Board of other nurses, none of whom have ever been disciplined. And the most glaring difference is even if the theft suspect had been found guilty and put in prison he wouldn’t have had to reimburse the court for the police officer’s time arresting him, the clerk’s time to process him, the jail’s time for holding him, the investigators time for investigating him, the DA’s time for prosecuting him and the judge’s time for imposing the sentence. The nurse has to pay all of those costs back to the Board. THAT is unjust.
If there is anything to be outraged by in Amanda’s case, it isn’t so much that a physician threw her under the gurney to save his own scrubs or that the hospital took his side. It isn’t that the accusation with a bunch of alleged lies is public record for all to see. The thing to be outraged about is the fact that state Boards of Registered Nursing are not playing by the same rules as everyone else. They lack a reasonable due process. They are too powerful with very little oversight. There are too few checks and balances. The appeal process is skewed and too expensive to exercise. In California, they are borderline omnipotent and in my opinion, they have a bloated god-complex. The system is made even more repulsive by the fact that for every accusation that ends in a “discipline,” the nurse has to pay the Board, often tens of thousands in “reimbursement for reasonable costs”. That smells like blood money to me.
So what is the recourse for Amanda and the thousands of nurses like her who’ve been enmeshed in the Board of Nursing’s cruel system? It is sadly very little, unless they have $40,000.00 for a writ of mandate and then additional funds for attorney’s fees to go to court over the matter. It could also help if they happen to be cozy with the governor. The only entities in California that can overturn a Board of Nursing decision are the Governor or Superior Court. Of course most nurses don’t have the ability to fork over $75,000.00 or $100k and their ties to the Governor are nil, so they just accept the Board’s discipline, which is usually probation and are grateful that they didn’t get their licenses revoked. The only way to change this is to write letters to the Governor or the head of your state’s department of consumer affairs. Seek the help of a lawyer as early as possible so that you don’t get taken advantage of and be careful in disclosing anything to the Board itself. I have more on that for a later piece.
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