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  • Challenging Patients in the Correctional Facility

    Over the past month I have had some very challenging patients. I will often question, why and how did someone end up here at the correctional facility? I believe it is better I do not know. Actually, it is none of my business; it keeps the care unbiased and pure and it does not impact how I treat them. If one of the inmates upsets the ...
    Posted to New Grad NP (Weblog) on November 15, 2012
  • Nonprofit vs. For-Profit Hospitals

    My nurses were in an uproar one day over patients who are trying to schedule post-hospital follow-ups with me whom we'd never seen before, with complex conditions such as post CABGs and even a renal transplant. It turns out that Medicaid is randomly assigning patients to primary care providers in the area, whether there is a former ...
    Posted to New Grad NP (Weblog) on July 5, 2012