Medscape Blogs - Diane Goodman

• How to Move From Defensive to 'I Have This!' An experienced nurse provides scenarios in which effective communication avoids confrontation and frustration despite an overwhelming workload.
  Medscape Blogs, May 18, 2022
• RaDonda Vaught: Victim, Felon, or Both? An experienced nurse discusses the implications of the RaDonda Vaught guilty verdict for nurses who may be angry or fearful for the future.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• Moral Courage in Nursing: Do You Have It? An experienced RN discusses the times in her career that caused the most heartbreak, including instances that defined the concept of moral courage.
  Medscape Blogs, March 31, 2022
• Double Standards in Medicine Won't Allow Me to 'Calm Down' An experienced nurse discusses the frustration of female nurses working in a predominantly male environment.
  Medscape Blogs, March 15, 2022
• We Are Failing People With Chronic Pain An experienced nurse discusses why the healthcare community is failing those who suffer from chronic pain, with huge implications for an aging American workforce.
  Medscape Blogs, March 01, 2022
• The Moral Injury of COVID: How Will Nurses Survive? An experienced nurse outlines the differences between burnout and moral injury, with emphasis on the distress caused by an unrelenting pandemic.
  Medscape Blogs, February 11, 2022
• Intermittent Fasting: What Worked, Proved Challenging A nurse describes how she dealt with the rigors of one of the more successful programs for weight loss.
  Medscape Blogs, January 21, 2022
• Most Americans Approve of the Death Penalty. Do You? An experienced nurse explores whether capital punishment works as a deterrent to violent crime.
  Medscape Blogs, December 29, 2021
• What on Earth Does 'Fully Vaccinated' Mean? A nurse becomes increasingly worried as clarity around the phrase "fully vaccinated" evolves during a time of booster injections and new variants.
  Medscape Blogs, December 08, 2021
• I Forget Names All the Time: Could This Be Alzheimer's Disease? An experienced nurse (and aging baby boomer) discusses the rising impact of Alzheimer's disease on society and healthcare.
  Medscape Blogs, November 24, 2021
• Fired for Speaking Out! Could It Happen to You? A nurse discusses why providers were terminated during the pandemic and why these examples serve as a warning to other professionals.
  Medscape Blogs, November 12, 2021
• Nurses Are Feeling 'Utterly Broken' and Exhausted: Is Help Available? An experienced nurse discusses why the moral injury of the pandemic is rarely visible, and why recognition of mental health needs is so important.
  Medscape Blogs, November 01, 2021
• Younger, African American Women, and Men, Get Breast Cancer Too An experienced nurse breaks down the facts about breast cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month and why it's more than a disease impacting middle-aged women.
  Medscape Blogs, October 15, 2021
• Will Vaccine Mandates Affect the Existing Nursing Shortage? An experienced nurse examines how vaccine mandates may affect existing nursing shortages across the country.
  Medscape Blogs, October 07, 2021
• The Gray Zone: Life After a Near-Death Experience A nurse survivor explains why her expectations differed from those around her after facing a near-death experience.
  Medscape Blogs, September 24, 2021
• In Harm’s Way: Why Hazard Pay for Nurses Is Overdue A nurse describes why the work of professional nurses meets the criteria for hazard pay.
  Medscape Blogs, September 15, 2021
• Suspect a Nurse of Substance Abuse? How You Can Help Do you suspect your colleague of being impaired while on the clock? Actions you take can help them and keep their patients safe.
  Medscape Blogs, September 09, 2021
• Stop Blaming the Unvaccinated Why a nurse disagrees that this is a 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.' How labeling the global pandemic is hurting everyone.
  Medscape Blogs, August 27, 2021
• Myth or Fact: Nurses Make the Worst Patients Have nurses gotten a bad rap? This seasoned nurse believes that the reputation of nurses as 'worst possible' patients may be undeserved and only partially explains the story of hospitalized colleagues.
  Medscape Blogs, August 18, 2021
• The Time for Ambiguity and Indecisiveness Has Passed Read why this nurse believes the time for indecisiveness is over, and the time for action is now, especially with the spectacularly rapid rise in Delta variant infections and hospitalizations.
  Medscape Blogs, August 12, 2021