On a recent Saturday, Rondah Kentch and I cared for eight premature babies in our neonatal intensive care bay. All of them were adorable, nearing discharge and had blank immunization consents on the fronts of their charts, waiting for signature.
Health Care Articles
Health reform must address primary care shortcomings
Austin American-Statesman, September 11, 2009
As a 30-year neonatal intensive care unit nurse, I know that America funds and delivers the finest high-technology care in the world. But when I admit so many babies of working parents with no insurance and work way too hard to find primary care providers for the babies we send home, I know our country has a terrible problem.
Retaliation against West Texas nurses is unacceptable (Part 1)
Austin American-Statesman, August 3, 2009
In a stunning display of good ol’ boy idiocy and abuse of prosecutorial discretion, two West Texas nurses have been fired from their jobs and indicted with a third-degree felony carrying potential penalties of two-to-ten years’ imprisonment and a maximum fine of $10,000.
Don’t lower Texas’ RN standards
San Antonio Express-News, April 10, 2009
The 81st Legislature is weighing legislation that would lower nursing basic educational standards to help fight the nursing shortage in Texas. Bad idea. Some background: […]
CMS Reimbursement Changes Shine the Light on Patient Safety and Nursing Care
Texas Nursing Voice [Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 5], December 1, 2008
The hammer comes down this month. Beginning in October (the start of the federal 2009 fiscal year), Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals at the […]
Texas professional nurses don’t need unions
Fort Worth Star Telegram, November 13, 2008
Continuing a campaign to unionize Texas nurses, today the California Nurses Association is holding a rally on the Capitol steps in Austin. This out-of-state union’s […]
Dewhurst doesn’t waste sympathy on the uninsured
Austin American-Statesman, February 8, 2007
Just when I think I can no longer be shocked by what an elected official says, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst goes and proves me wrong. […]
The ‘system’ isn’t failing to rescue Texas’ mentally ill. We are.
Austin American-Statesman, June 4, 2004
An administrator of a Central Texas nonprofit rural hospital asked me last week, “What is going on out there? Our ER, and even our general […]
AJN 2004 Career Guide — Nursing the trends: Nurses have more employment options than ever
American Journal of Nursing [2004 Career Guide, pp. 25-32], January 1, 2004
This solicited piece is a broad, comprehensive overview of the state of the nursing profession in the United States.
One Step Forward, One Step Back: Physician supervision requirements are troublesome for CRNAs.
American Journal of Nursing [Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 91-4], January 1, 2003
“It’s a wash,” says Sally Bass Witkowski, CRNA, BSR, when asked about the recent flip-flop Medicare rulings on physician supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) […]
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