Medical Ethics and Me, Thursday, January 26, 2012 #NurseUp, #AmandaTrujillo #nursefriendly #healthcare #hcsm #mdchat #rnchat
May 9, 2012 in Amanda Trujillo
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Medical Ethics and Me, Thursday, January 26, 2012 #NurseUp, #AmandaTrujillo #nursefriendly #healthcare #hcsm #mdchat #rnchat”Amanda Trujillo is a transplant nurse and patient advocate in Phoenix, Arizona. That is, she was. Trujillo was fired in Spring 2011, lost her license, and cannot at present hold another nursing position in Arizona. And it seems that she was fired for being a transplant nurse advocating for a dying patient. Calling it ironic doesn’t do it justice. Trujillo’s advocacy was either in defiance of, or at least without regard for, a transplant physician who had other plans for the patient that involved surgery and certain realities of post-surgical care about which the patient was not aware. Trujillo admits that the physician’s concerns were not hers, and she clearly has strong feelings about how unaddressed revenue pressures can compromise institutional ethics and practices. What also is clear is that the best interests of the patient were Trujillo’s priority. Which is pretty much what I want in a nurse.”
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Thank you for reading Amanda’s story, here’s a post from her blog.
1,000 Shades of Nursing: Why are we “really” celebrating Nurses Week? May 9, 2012 By Amanda Trujillo, MSN, RN, @nurseinterupted:”There was an interesting tweet chat taking place this evening with regards to Nurses Week and how everyone celebrated their week or reflected on their profession. Several great view points were offered up. My own perception of Nurses Week is that it is a metaphor for every way our profession has stagnated, failed to progress, remaining fractured and at odds with itself about where it should be and how it should get there. Hell, we’re still trying to bridge the gap between academic nursing and clinical nursing. It’s not difficult to empathize with some of the views raised this evening: The disdain with the recycled food offerings, the traditional ice cream social that makes some of us seethe inside, the hospital logo stamped on nursing “swag,” the lack of any gifts of appreciation, the “lumping in” of Nurse Week with “Hospital Week,” or whether we even need the proverbial “pat on the head” as one nurse blogger put it. Im conflicted: As a profession—HOW are we leading, and HOW are we advocating?
http://nurseinterupted.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/1000-shades-of-nursing-why-are-we-really-celebrating-nurses-week/
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