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Saturday, February 11, 2012

The ANA Finally Talks About the Amanda Trujillo Case - Nurse Ratched’s Place, #nurseup @motherjones #amandatrujillo

Feb2012 Author: Mother Jones, RN

Hear ye, hear ye, the great and magnificent ANA has made a statement about the Amanda Trujillo case. Well it’s about time. It only took a firestorm in the blogosphere to make you speak. Your slow response was noted. I’m sure you needed extra time to precisely craft your statement about Amanda’s case because you’ve really screwed things up.

This is their comment about Amanda’s case:

“ANA is closely monitoring the case of Amanda Trujillo, MSN, RN, and has been in contact with her attorney. ANA strongly supports nurses and their right and responsibility to engage in patient education and advocacy. ANA appreciates how difficult it is for a nurse to undergo an investigation of his or her practice by the state board of nursing. To be clear, ANA expects the Arizona Board of Nursing to follow its standard procedure, to render an unbiased judgment in this case, and to be fully transparent in its findings.

ANA advises that any nurse who has been alerted by the board of a complaint and an impending investigation retain legal counsel. It is the role of legal counsel to represent the nurse during the process. In addition, ANA cautions nurses and the public not to rush to judgments about complex cases based on social media postings or other media coverage.”

Seriously, ANA? What a cop out. Amanda wrote to the ANA MONTHS ago and heard nothing from your so called leadership. But that’s OK. I’m sure that your leadership were far too busy to deal with Amanda because they were chumming around with Teri Wicker, the president of the Arizona Nurses Association and one of the Banner Health Care nurses who fired Amanda. I wish someone from the ANA would explain how they could have contacted Amanda’s attorney since she doesn’t have one right now because she is looking for one that has more experience in this type of case. And besides ANA, I think it’s really creepy that you would contact Amanda’s attorney without talking to her first. I guess you forgot that she is a member of your organization. And that whole thing about social media? Get ready ANA. The firestorm is just beginning. People are listening to nurse bloggers and the media because they can’t get the truth from any other source. I know you that must really scare you because you can’t handle the truth.

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Friday, February 10, 2012

7 Free #Tools That #Nurse #Entrepreneurs Should Be Using, @icoachnurses #nursefriendly #nursingentrepreneurs #entrepreneurship

7 Free Tools That Nurse Entrepreneurs Should Be Using

The Internet is littered with programs, apps, and plug-ins that all have the potential of being valuable tools for your business. Testing, researching, and exploring these gadgets and gizmos, however, could be a full-time job! In my never-ending quest to find the hippest, hottest, and most efficient options for my EntrpreNurses, I have come up with a list of 7 “must have” free helper tools for business professionals:

1. TwitCleaner : Because it’s about the QUALITY not the QUANTITY of your Twitter Followers. Twitcleaner weeds the “junk” out of your Twitter Followers and leaves you with a solid, viable, and active base. Shady followers, self-absorbed followers, and inactive followers are all compiled into a Twitcleaner provided report for you and gives you the option to leave them be, or unfollow.

2. Bubbl.us: If you are a fan of Mind-Mapping, this super cool site let’s you create your own custom, colorful Mind-Maps that you can store, share, and update for later. “Brainstorm online with bubbl.us.”

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3. Google Alerts: One of the keys to success is to research and monitor everything connected to your industry. Google Alerts helps you track activity on the Internet when a specific keyword is mentioned. Google Alerts help in:

monitoring a developing news story

keeping current on a competitor or industry

getting the latest on a celebrity or event

keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

Set up an Alert for your business name and it will give you a cyber “heads-up” via email whenever your name is mentioned on-line. You can also set it for industry-related keywords to track news and updates in your field.

4. Google Boomerang: This nifty little tool is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages. Need to send something Friday but afraid you won’t remember? Write it, Boomerang it, and it will automatically send on the date and time you desire. No more “oh crap I forgot!”or “did I hear back from them or not?”

5. Skype: Don’t rack up minutes on your phone! Use Skype to speak with clients, business partners, and suppliers. Opt to use the camera feature and actually see who you are talking to as well. If you find yourself ringing up hefty long distance bills, start asking clients and friends to Skype you. Works for international calls as well. There are packages you can pay for too, but that depends on your individual calling needs. Plus the funky little noise Skype makes when it boots up is pretty cool

6. Freshbooks : Freshbooks it a pretty sweet accounting and invoicing site that makes both less painful. It’s completely FREE for your first three clients. You can track expenses, create time sheets and log hours on projects. I am groovin’ on the Timer. It’s a way to keep real-time records of when projects start and end. Bring up the Start/Stop Timer tab, pick what task you are performing for which client, and start the Timer. When your done, click “Log Hours” and it automatically logs your time for you under that client for later billing.

7. AWeber: Building an email list is still important for any business. Remember you own your email list, you don’t own your Twitter followers or Facebook fans. AWeber is a great platform and makes creating and analyzing email campaigns really easy. However the best part is it is super cheap for up to 500 subscribers on your list. So when you’re just starting out it is a good way to test out all the features of an email marketing campaign without actually paying much at all.

There’s 7 Little Nuggest Of Entrepreneur Gold for you! I’d love to hear your top picks for free tools, apps and plug-ins. Use the comment below and share some of your favs!

Anna Morrison is the Founder of The EntrepreNurse™ Group and the annual EntrepreNurse™ Summit. Her work empowers Nurses to leverage their clinical experience to create profitable businesses with meaningful impact. She is the #1 Amazon Bestselling author of 5 Things They Never Told You in Nursing School. Her upcoming books include: The EntrepreNurse Club: Escape the Bedside, Make a Difference, and (Finally) Earn What You’re Worth, and the awe-inspiring Magnitude 7.0: Hope & Transformation After Haiti’s Apocalyptic Earthquake. As an inspiring servant-leader and in-demand speaker, and nursing career coach, Anna has helped hundreds of nurses re-connect to their passion for making a difference in the world, while improving their own lives. Anna runs the “I Coach Nurses” Blog online and her international volunteer work has been featured in The Miami Herald, on Good Morning America, Plum TV and Nurse.com. Anna is a member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the National Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.

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How American Health Care Killed My Father - Magazine - The Atlantic, #healthcare #s4pm #rnchat #nursefriendly

How American Health Care Killed My Father

After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it. Here’s a radical solution to an agonizing problem.

By David Goldhill

Illustration by Mark Hooper

Almost two years ago, my father was killed by a hospital-borne infection in the intensive-care unit of a well-regarded nonprofit hospital in New York City. Dad had just turned 83, and he had a variety of the ailments common to men of his age. But he was still working on the day he walked into the hospital with pneumonia. Within 36 hours, he had developed sepsis. Over the next five weeks in the ICU, a wave of secondary infections, also acquired in the hospital, overwhelmed his defenses. My dad became a statistic—merely one of the roughly 100,000 Americans whose deaths are caused or influenced by infections picked up in hospitals. One hundred thousand deaths: more than double the number of people killed in car crashes, five times the number killed in homicides, 20 times the total number of our armed forces killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another victim in a building American tragedy.

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I finally took the time to read some other blogs today. One of the issues that I found disturbing was the case of Amanda Trujillo.

There are a lot of bits and pieces out there about what actually happened in this case. This blog post was reportedly an e-mail from Amanda describing the events. A summary of the post follows.

Amanda was a registered nurse of six years , specializing in cardiology, geriatrics, and end of life/palliative care.
In April 2011, she was caring for a dying patient at Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center who had agreed to a major invasive surgery recommended by a staff surgeon.
Amanda used materials from her hospital to educate the patient about the details of the surgery and the aftercare.
The patient became upset, stating that the surgeon never explained details of the surgery or what had to be done after the surgery (complex lifetime daily self care).
Amanda also discovered that the patient “had no idea” that surgery could be refused or that the patient could enroll in hospice care. She educated the patient on those options as well.
Afterwards, the patient requested a case management consult to visit with hospice.
Amanda documented her discussions with the patient and informed the nurse at shift change that the surgeon needed to clear up a “gross misunderstanding” the patient had about the surgery.
“The surgeon became enraged, threw a well witnessed tantrum in the nursing station, refused to let the patient visit with hospice, and insisted I be fired and my license taken.”
She was fired and she is not able to find employment due to the actions taken against her license.

As a result of this incident, Amanda’s career has been destroyed. She is a single mom with three nursing degrees and now, unemployed and unemployable, she has no other option than public aid to feed her family.

Back in 1913, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote:
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

I’ve tweeted to Amanda to contact me so that I can get more information from her. If the above events can be substantiated, what happened to Amanda was deplorable. And if the events can be substantiated, I’m going to shine some sunlight on the actions of other parties involved.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

ANA Finally Acknowledges RN Amanda Trujillo | Notes from the Nurses' Station

ANA Finally Acknowledges RN Amanda Trujillo

February 9th, 2012

By Jennifer Olin, BSN, RN

Yesterday, February 8, 2012, the American Nurses Association (ANA) finally, sort of, addressed the issue of Arizona nurse Amanda Trujillo and her firing by Banner Health for what they claim was a breach of her nursing scope of practice. This story has taken the nursing social media world by storm in the past few weeks since Trujillo reached outsider her home state for support.

Seeking the help of nurse bloggers across the country was not Trujillo’s initial response. Back in April, 2010, when the whole mess erupted she reached out to the organization she has been paying annual dues to for years and had even very recently donated $100 to for the ANA political fund.

”They never answered any of my emails for help or even acknowledged my emails,” Trujillo said this morning. “They didn’t return my calls either.” She flat out received no response from the national or state office—until yesterday.

So what sparked this sudden appearance of interest from an organization that claims to represent the 3.1 million nurses in this country? Bad press from the blogosphere is my guess.

Here is what the ANA said:

”The American Nurses Association is closely monitoring the case of Amanda Trujillo, MSN, RN, and has been in contact with her attorney. ANA strongly supports nurses and their right and responsibility to engage in patient education and advocacy.

”ANA appreciates how difficult it is for a nurse to undergo an investigation of his or her practice by the state board of nursing. To be clear, ANA expects the Arizona Board of Nursing to follow its standard procedure, to render an unbiased judgment in this case, and to be fully transparent in its findings.

”ANA is the professional association for the nation’s 3.1 million registered nurses (RNs). Since its inception in 1896, ANA has established, promoted and maintained professional nursing practice through the development of foundational documents such as the Code of Ethics for Nurses and Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.

”State nurse practice acts are the laws that define scope of practice with the intent of protecting the public. The laws also establish qualifications for practice as well as what constitutes unprofessional conduct or misconduct and associated disciplinary procedures when a complaint is filed against a nurse. The board of nursing is responsible for ensuring nurses are competent and do not exceed their scope of practice. Therefore, it investigates complaints, holds hearings, and renders findings.

”ANA advises that any nurse who has been alerted by the board of a complaint and an impending investigation retain legal counsel. It is the role of legal counsel to represent the nurse during the process. In addition, ANA cautions nurses and the public not to rush to judgments about complex cases based on social media postings or other media coverage.

”Professional associations, nurse practice acts, and state boards of nursing all play a vital role in protecting the public and the profession. ANA encourages nurses to seek out and apply resources that support them in their professional practice. “

Well, at least they are acknowledging there is a problem. The public, and in particular I mean the 3.1 million of us who are nurses and anyone who ever has been or will go to the hospital, has a right to know about this and they wouldn’t get all their info from “social media or other media coverage” if the ANA had spoken up sooner.

Please Explain

There are some questions that arise from this press release, the least of which is did the ANA really talk to Trujillo’s attorney? He never said so and he was recently let go by Trujillo in order to retain someone with more experience in these kinds of cases. So either the ANA never talked to him, or they did and he kept it to himself, or they tried to and he didn’t work for her anymore so really he couldn’t say anything.

And this is my favorite line, the “ANA encourages nurses to seek out and apply resources that support them in their professional practice.” Isn’t that what Trujillo tried to do by contacting the ANA?

It has now been 10 months since Trujillo lost her job for assessing that a patient, who was going to be worked up for a procedure, did not really understand what they were in for. There was a question in her mind as to whether the patient really had given fully informed consent. She provided the patient with teaching materials and requested a case management consult, including information about hospice care. That requested consult is the supposed breach of scope of practice.

Following her dismissal, Banner Health filed a complaint with the Arizona State Board of Nursing (ASBN) and now Trujillo sits, waiting to find out if she will continue to be a nurse in good standing or lose her license.

In all the months since Trujillo was let go, neither the ASBN nor Banner Health have chosen to comment on the situation except to say she is under investigation and the Banner does not discuss employee issues.

So, is it just sour grapes that she was being ignored that made Trujillo reach out to us, the nurses who write in public forums? I don’t think so and I asked her about it.

”Oh geez, no! I mean if it were about getting even who could hold out this long or have the energy for the campaign my daughter and I have been on for ten months now (she has been a very big part of this fight). And, for that matter who would put up with the number of doors that have been slammed in my face,” Trujillo told me.

”If this were about revenge, I would not have had the sheer determination to endure the challenges of this past year. It’s about lives; nurses and patients. I took an oath to get the RN after my name, and walking away from the battle would mean knowingly turning away from what I know was wrong and damaging to my patients—the lack of information they had and the denial of the very basic right to self determination when they were refused the right to see hospice,” Trujillo continued.

”If I stay silent; if I turn my back; if I ignore what happened and call it a day; collect my paycheck and go home—that is the day I need to walk away from nursing. That will be the day I have placed my own needs, wants, desires, well-being, and protection above those in my charge,” she said.

”We all nurse differently. I respect that and love that about our profession. We all have such amazing things to bring into nursing, and this is what I have to bring to the table; I make no apologies for it. I stand for what I believe is right and just—especially when there is potential harm on the horizon for both my colleagues and patients and our profession as a whole,” she continued.

”If we do not do something now, this is going to keep happening. I mean, it’s happening right now as we speak. I can’t collect a paycheck at the expense of the lives of my patients and their families. I understand the publicity with the Texas nurses was scary. I get the publicity the Nevada pediatric nurses received was even scarier—who would want to report after seeing all of our stories.

”But if nurses like me don’t put their foot down and do the right thing—not the easy thing—then people will get hurt, people will die, and our profession will suffer enormous consequences. It all comes down to one thing: when you consider whether to fight for what is just and what is right, if you are thinking of the moral imperative to do what "is right for the sake of doing right" and nothing else then the solution is easy. You keep talking, you keep knocking on doors, you keep emailing, you keep sending letters, you keep tweeting, you keep trying, and you keep fighting "UNTIL." The choice to act, the decision to stand up and speak loudly only becomes difficult when you allow the interests of "self preservation and protection" into the equation. “

Everything Trujillo says sounds very noble. And unless like me, and select group of others, you have heard it from her directly you may not buy it. What I can say is she is very passionate about what happened to her and could have happened to her patient. And, she deserves to at least be acknowledged by her peers and the organizations she has dutifully belonged to for years.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Bloggers That are supporting Amanda Trujillo

Emergiblog, Kim McAllister: @emergiblog, kmcallister911@mac.com, http://www.emergiblog.com/

Icoachnurses, Anna Morrison, RN, (954) 793-9152, icoachnurses@gmail.com, http://www.icoachnurses.com

Nurse Ratched's Place, Terri Polick, AKA Motherjonesrn, motherjonesrn@yahoo.com, Website: http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/

Nursetopia, http://nursetopia.net/2012/01/31/ripples-a-conversation-with-amanda-trujillo-part-1-of-3/

"The Nerdy Nurse" Brittney Wilson,RN, BSN, , (706)766-9475, @TheNerdyNurse , TheNerdyNurse@gmail.com, http://thenerdynurse.com/

Those Emergency Blues, Jay Doe, http://torontoemerg.wordpress.com/

Change.org Petition For Amanda Trujillo: Arizona State Board of Nursing: Remove Amanda Trujillo's nursing license from "under investigation" status
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Complaints to Banner Health (Their Feedback Form), http://www.bannerhealth.com/_Contact+Us/_feedback.htm?s=comment

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Arizona State Board of Nursing, 4747 North 7th Street, Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ 85014-3655
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Banner Health Del E. Webb Medical Center, Arizona, 14502 W. Meeker Blvd., Sun City West, AZ 85375, (623) 524-4000, http://www.bannerhealth.com/_Contact+Us/_feedback.htm?s=comment
Tina Lanciault, RN, tina@smallbusinessnurse.com, 1-302-353-7701, http://differenttypesofnursing.com
Andrew Lopez, RN, @nursefriendly, info@nursefriendly.com, 856-415-9617, http://www.nursefriendly.com
Kim McAllister, @emergiblog, kmcallister911@mac.com, http://www.emergiblog.com/
Anna Morrison, RN, icoachnurses@gmail.com, (954) 793-9152, http://www.icoachnurses.com
Jennifer Olin, RN, jennifer@rncentral.com, 713-444-7229, http://www.rncentral.com/
Michael Pergrem aka Coach Perg, PO Box 363 Bethel, OH 45106, CoachPerg@gmail.com, 513-426-8415
Terri Polick, AKA Motherjonesrn, motherjonesrn@yahoo.com, Website: Nurse Ratched's Place, http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/
Brittney Wilson,RN, BSN, - "The Nerdy Nurse" @TheNerdyNurse , TheNerdyNurse@gmail.com, (706)766-9475, http://thenerdynurse.com/

Facebook Pages:
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Nurseup For Amanda Trujillo, http://www.facebook.com/NurseUpforAmandaTrujillo?sk=wall

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Carlson, Keith to State Board

Morrison Anna, to State Board

Ross, Kevin to State Board

Radio Interviews: Amanda Trujillo on RNFM Radio: http://www.box.com/s/hq8bgf200x0g7lhd1u7l

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Youtube Videos, http://rnfmradio.com/nurse-bloggers-amanda-trujillo/

1. Advocating for a fellow Nurse: Amanda Trujillo 2. The power of social media #NurseUp
3. The Nurse Stands Alone… 4. The Persecution of Amanda Trujillo
5. The Persecution of Amanda Trujillo 6. Fellow Nurse in Jeopardy - Call to Action
7. My Letter to the Arizona Board of Nursing 8. Amanda Trujillo: A Fellow Nurse on the Ropes
9. Open Letters to the AZ BON on behalf of Amanda Trujillo 10. Letter to AZ Board of Nursing Re: Amanda Trujillo
11. Advocating For A Nurse Standing Alone 12. Audio Interview w/Amanda Trujillo
13. Amanda Trujillo: Exposing the Truth 14. Support Your Fellow Nurse
15. Stop the Bullying Now -- Stand up for Nurses and Patients 16. Patient Advocacy: Our Duty, Our Right
17. Standing With Amanda Trujillo 18. The Hopeful Healer/Nurses Who Care
19. Banner Health Strikes Blow Against Patient Advocacy 20. Banner Health Strikes Blow Against Patient Advocacy
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The Nurse: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare, by carol-gino on February 5, 2012:"Okay so, after reading a ton of books trying to find a definition of nursing that matched my experience, I fell asleep with no clear cut answer to my question, "What is a nurse?" I mean it's not that I haven't been pondering that for a very long time, it's just that nothing so far has satisfied me. I've seen brilliant bedside nurses–and I don't mean nurses who only cared for patients with superb care and compassion– I mean smart, really smart diagnosticians. Nurses who doctors asked, "What do you think is going on with this patient?" And when they answered, there was true appreciation and respect from the doctor to that nurse. They were colleagues, no question there. I've seen ICU nurses, who both doctors and patients trusted to look at a monitor, administer meds — both stat and with standing orders — who saved patients lives time and time again, before a doctor ever could get to the Unit.
http://hopefulhealer.com/the-nurse-the-swiss-army-knife-of-healthcare/
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Tsunami: A Conversation with Amanda Trujillo (Part 3 of 3), by Nursetopia on February 2, 2012:"Amanda nailed this situation during our call when she said, "This is bigger than me." She explained her actions – reaching out to colleagues via emails and social media – is not about revenge or getting even with any organization. She understands the Arizona Board of Nursing must investigate her because she was reported, however, the reason she was reported – a case management consult construed as a medical order – is the bothersome part. "We all make mistakes, realize them, use them to change, give thanks for them, and move on. If I had done something wrong, I could take it. If I had done something wrong." Amanda's story is a ripple culminating in a tsunami of change and ideas and discussions. When asked what she'd like other nurses to know, she provided three thoughts:" http://nursetopia.net/2012/02/02/tsunami-a-conversation-with-amanda-trujillo-part-3-of-3/
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A Letter From the Arizona Nurses Association, 1 Feb, 2012, Author: Mother Jones, RN:"I wrote a letter to the Arizona Nurses Association when I learned that the association was not coming to the aid of Amanda Trujillo. If you haven't heard, Amanda was fired from Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center after she educated one of her patients about their upcoming liver transplant. I wrote about it here and here. I couldn't understand why the association was twiddling its thumbs until I learned that Teri Hill, the president of AzNA is also the Director of Professional Practice at Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center."
http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2012/02/a-letter-from-the-arizona-nurses-association/
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Waves: A Conversation with Amanda Trujillo (Part 2 of 3), by Nursetopia on February 1, 2012:"Nurses throughout the U.S. and Canada are standing beside Amanda Trujillo, RN, MSN. We're talking about this everywhere – in blogs, social media, our offices, you name it. Admittedly, Amanda is a shy person; she's not accustomed to this attention. Yet, she says, "For the first time, I feel safe; for the first time, I don't feel alone." Why does Amanda's story resonate with so many of us? Because the majority of us have faced a sliver of Amanda's story. We've each felt alone in our careers – in certain situations – at one point or another, and we don't think anyone should have to do that. Despite what most believe, there is a strong cohort of nurses who don't eat our profession's young; rather, we take them under our wings and mentor them. It's unfortunate so many nurses do not get to see this amazing group of nurses because they typically find one another, encourage one another, and make their organizations great. The same is true for the bullies – those nurses that really should never provide care for people because they are constantly tearing down everyone they meet. They find one another, too, creating hostile and toxic environments, driving nurses away from the profession and making them think they are failures."
http://nursetopia.net/2012/02/01/waves-a-conversation-with-amanda-trujillo-part-2-of-3/
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An Update on AZ Nurse Amanda Trujillo Case, Submitted by Mech on Wednesday, 1 February 2012:"Amanda Trujillo, a registered nurse in Arizona, has been scuffling with her case on patient advocacy for several months already. On January 24, 2012, her case was supposedly to be heard. But unfortunately, it has been postponed and rescheduled on March. And what is reason for delaying it? The AZ BON don't like Amanda's online activity and feel she threatened a former boss. Thus, they are requiring her to undergo first a psychiatric evaluation. With the popularity that Amanda Trujillo's case is receiving online, it made me realized then how important social media is in healthcare industry. They are not only beneficial in promoting health awareness but also allow people in nursing scrubs to share their experiences. Additionally, social media makes it possible for nurses to extend their support to fellow professionals in nursing scrubs like AZ nurse Amanda Trujillo who is currently in a dilemma.
http://www.scrubpoint.com/2012/02/01/an-update-on-az-nurse-amanda-trujillo-case/
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Ripples: A Conversation with Amanda Trujillo (Part 1 of 3), by Nursetopia on January 31, 2012:"I know there are people who have read and read and read about Amanda Trujillo. In fact, there are so many great posts, I don't know who to link to so you can see them all. Be sure to check out The Nerdy Nurse, Those Emergency Blues, Emergiblog, iCoachNurses, Nurse Ratched's Place, and Vern Dutton's page. There are a plethora of links between those fabulous blogs. Still, there are many who have no idea what is happening in Arizona. You can read Amanda's story in her own words; please, do. I spoke with Amanda via telephone for over an hour, listening to her tell her story and asking questions. The many subsequent posts are for Amanda as well as inspired by her. I thank her for sharing her time and story with me so I can share it with you in hopes you will share it with others. This must stop."
http://nursetopia.net/2012/01/31/ripples-a-conversation-with-amanda-trujillo-part-1-of-3/
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Amanda Trujillo – Nurse fired for being a patient advocate, Pat Iyer, January 30, 2012:"The story of Amanda Trujillo is a horrifying one. Briefly, she is a single mom who fought to get off welfare and fulfilled her dream of becoming a nurse. Not only did she become a nurse, she earned a masters and doctorate degree in nursing. One night while working a Banner Health in Arizona, she took care of a patient who was being asked to undergo a liver transplant. In talking to the patient, Amanda learned that the patient did not fully understand what was going to occur. Amanda educated the patient. She explained the option of hospice instead. The patient decided against the transplant. Then the physician came in, had a well- witnessed tantrum at the hospital when he found out his patient had decided against surgery, and Amanda was fired by the hospital. Her case came up for review by the Arizona Board of Nursing. The summary of her case written by the attorney representing her is below. Amanda has been devastated in terms of her career and her finances. She is back on welfare, her dream of being a nurse shattered."
http://www.avoidmedicalerrors.com/2012/01/amanda-trujillo-nurse-fired-for-being-a-patient-advocate/
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Banner Health, Arizona Board of @Nursing: A Personal Vendetta? Emergiblog:"Sorry, no. This is the problem. There is a huge injustice being perpetrated against a nurse right this moment. It's getting worse. And the ones who got the party started aren't happy that it isn't quiet. That their moves, and their motives, are under public scrutiny. That nurses are talking. Because if you are quiet, it means they've got you frightened. If you are quiet, it's harder for the next nurse to speak out. If you are quiet, it is easier to intimidate and retaliate against nurses with impunity. I received a call from the Arizona Board of Nursing this morning. I am not able to obtain a copy of the Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center complaint against Amanda Trujillo, RN, MSN."
http://www.emergiblog.com/2012/01/banner-health-arizona-board-of-nursing-a-personal-vendetta.html
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Nurses associations, my very own arcade claw machine by Kevin Ross, January 29, 2012:"It seems that there isn't any shortage of things to write about here at Innovative Nurse when it comes to fellow nurse Amanda Trujillo. Search Twitter for #NurseUp, and all of the amazing nurse bloggers out there (links below), that have kept you somewhat up to speed on the case of Amanda. So, I was on Tweetchat this past Sunday with some of these amazing nurse bloggers, leaders, and entrepreneurs out there and the support is just off the hook (save that hook reference for a sec). I know we're here for a bigger cause than Amanda. I just can't believe it took something like this to bring us together. We're here for the nursing profession, and in support of our ability to work collaboratively and to advocate for our patients. There are nursing professionals I've never even met that are pouring themselves into this cause with great vigor. Watch out because the energy behind this is unstoppable."
http://innovativenurse.com/nurses-association-arcade-claw-machine/
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Voices For Amanda Trujillo, Jay Doe, Those Emergency Blues, January 28, 2012:"Each of them eloquently speaks to the heart of what we do as nurses — and why nurses find how Amanda Trujillo was fired and subsequently reported to the Arizona State Board of Nursing so troubling. (Via The Innovative Nurse.)"
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Jay-Doe/100000771416457
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TorontoEmerg
http://torontoemerg.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/voices-for-amanda-trujillo/
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Advocating for a fellow Nurse: Amanda Trujillo, MSN, RN, DNSc-NP(s), Kevin Ross, January 22, 2012, #RN, @innovativenurse #nurseup #nursefriendly:"An open letter to the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Disclaimer, I have not been directly contacted by Amanda Trujillo, nor do I know her personally or professionally. I am also writing to you based on the information that I have available to me. To the Arizona State Board of Nursing: To whom it may concern, I am writing to you on behalf of Amanda Trujillo, MSN, RN, DNSc-NP(s) regarding the case attached below. I have not been contacted directly by Amanda Trujillo, and I have neither a personal or professional relationship other than that she is a fellow nurse in need of my support. http://innovativenurse.com/advocating-fellow-nurse/
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