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The CEU Industry Was Never Built to Teach You Anything (opens the original)
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The Room Where the Decision Gets Made Has No Nurse In It (opens the original)
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A device gets specced. A price gets negotiated. A purchase order gets signed. Somewhere in that chain, a decision was made about a piece of equipment that a nurse, a CNA, or a family caregiver will have to live with for years — and the person who actually understands how the equipment behaves in a real room, with a real patient, was never in the room where that decision happened.Subscribe nowI spent a week this month reviewing spec sheets for low beds. Not glamorous work. Compare capacities, cro
The Cake Mix Problem (opens the original)
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A nurse posted something on LinkedIn last week that I haven’t stopped thinking about.She’s teaching herself to build datasets from scratch — CMS data, CDC public health records, clinical registries, published research on PubMed. Not analyzing data someone handed her. Building it, from raw open sources, herself.In the comments, another nurse named the real divide: most of us are trained to work with data that’s already been packaged. Premade cake mix. Add a couple wet ingredients, pour, bake. The
She Said She Was Fine. Nobody Ever Came to the House. (opens the original)
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He was standing in the street in his pajamas.Not confused. Not wandering. Terrified. Going door to door, banging on the houses of people he had lived beside for years, asking them to call the police.She’s trying to kill me. Help. Help.She was on the porch. Watching her neighbors look at her.Fifty years married. He had Parkinson’s first, then the dementia came, the way it so often does. Lewy body. She had learned to say it. She could spell it by then.She was seventy and she was doing all of it. E
The Script Only Works Sideways (opens the original)
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