Florence Nightingale’s Birthday Present
I’m happy to report that not only is this Nurses’s Week, but on May 12th, it’s Florence Nightingale’s birthday! The date is easy for me to remember, since my own birthday is May 15th. [Guess we are both under the sign of Taurus the bull, not that I follow such prognostication, but a correlation has been made in my family that if the nose ring fits...] I wonder what Flo would say about some of the headlines today? Aside from wars and rumors of more wars, technological miracles, and the odd ritual of camping outdoors once the weather is nice, what would she say about...
Read MoreAlphabet Soup Time Again
As of about a month ago, the CDC put out an updated alert on a lurking healthcare menace : CRE = Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae [entero-bacteria-a-see]… Say that fast 10 times! So what’s the big deal? These microscopic critters, which appear naturally in our digestive tracts (along with e coli and klebsiella clans), have the ability to resist yet another type of antibiotic (the carbapenem family). Yes, you heard right. ANOTHER antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria. And how does this happen? [Sounds like the same song, third verse...] The identical route other MRSA...
Read MoreSurviving Great Quakes – Now and Then
In 2013, instant media coverage invites us to share tragedy and triumph worldwide. Our hearts and prayers go out to the affected families with loved ones who have been senselessly maimed or killed by dissidents and/or human error. The past few weeks have also revealed triumphs amidst the tragedies. Random acts of kindness lift our spirits, when we see neighbors helping neighbors who are brought together by harm’s way. Those of us who live in the San Francisco Bay area, recall a different tragedy, long ago, this week in history.On April 18th, 1906, the Great Quake decimated the...
Read MoreCreating Acts of Kindness
Welcome to the Go With The Flo blog~ Here we will discuss anything that pertains to healthcare in this century or the last two… since Florence Nightingale’s influence spans > 150 years! Whether you are involved in direct patient (or “client”) care in your worksplace, or other work under the larger healthcare umbrella, or if you are/ have been a receiver of healthcare services and happen to hold Florence Nightingale in high esteem, THIS BLOG’s FOR YOU! ******* In my study of many of the 200 white papers and > 14,000 letters written by Florence Nightingale...
Read MoreHub-Caps to H-CAHPS
As surely as the white-walled hubcaps on my in my father’s shark-finned ’59 Buick, which I drove when I was 16, would have been replaced with wire-rims (were it still running), the CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System) assessments have morphed into H(for hospital)CAHPS. (Say, “H-Caps.”) What does this mean? And who cares? You should, dear reader. The HCAHPS is the next generation, Ralph Nader-type of brainchild that healthcare consumers (i.e., all of us, eventually) conceived in the early 2000’s. It all started as a back-lash movement against the...
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