Karen Gorby By Karen S. Gorby, RN, MSN, MBA, CENP, FACHE It’s May, and as we enjoy a beautiful spring — as well as the chance to get out and about more since we have been fortunate to have access to the COVID-19 vaccine — it promises to be quite different than last year’s. Twelve… Read More »
I Know This Much Is True is HBO’s latest Sunday night prestige limited series. In addition to it’s complex plot, the series also features a number of excellent songs. It’s based on Wally Lamb’s book of the same name, stars Mark Ruffalo, and is directed by Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond The Pines). The first… Read More »
The Affordable Care Act turned 10 last month and is credited with helping 20 million more Americans get health insurance than before the law was enacted. But the coronavirus pandemic could be the first true test of how well “Obamacare” works at preventing significant coverage loss, experts say. For people stricken with COVID-19, the disease… Read More »
HBO’s The Outsider introduced “El Cuco” (sometimes “El Coco”) in episode 4. The myth has Spanish origins—El Cuco is similar to the boogeyman. Here’s what the myth might mean for the series. In a typically terrifying Stephen King fashion, The Outsider, moving away from scientific explanation, introduced ‘El Cuco,’ a shape-shifting monster and force of… Read More »
Works through OpenHW Group to support design innovation and ensure ecosystem compatibility CAMBRIDGE, UK – 6 December 2019 UltraSoC today announced it will offer an open-source implementation of its industry-leading RISC-V trace encoder via the OpenHW Group. The availability of a production-grade, standards-compliant processor trace solution is a key enabler for developers, and supports the… Read More »
Can you let things roll off your shoulders? Are you the tough, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is, stand-your-ground type? Do you show up to work no matter what? Has no one ever seen you cry at work? Are these things resilience? We nurses openly divulge the issues that make us leave the bedside, even amid a vast shortage… Read More »
Does anyone in medicine, particularly emergency medicine, understand why we lose money? Why we have to push those metrics so hard to capture every dime? I mean, we’re constantly reminded that satisfaction scores, and time-stamps and time to door, time to needle, time to discharge, reduced “left without being seen” scores are connected to the… Read More »