Most recent articles by Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
The worst year ever?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Dec 22, 2020
Was 2020 really “the worst year ever”? Let’s take a closer look. It might open your eyes.
Depressed, angry and … thankful
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 24, 2020
Every Thanksgiving it has been my habit to meditate on what I am thankful for. I thought I would struggle this year.
Can we be more?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 10, 2020
We all have it within us to be amazing, to make an impression. How are we doing?
I don’t want to turn back the clock
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 28, 2020
This weekend we’re supposed to turn the clocks back an hour? Um, NO!
The best silly nurse jokes
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 14, 2020
I bet if that movie “Back to the Future” were real, Dr. Emmett Brown would be saying, “Marty, whatever you do, don’t go to the year 2020!”
So here goes. And I am begging you, if you have...
Is this our moment?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 01, 2020
It is unarguable: As of March 2020, our lives changed. When we knew COVID-19, this new novel coronavirus, was in our country, life changed as we knew it. And I believe that this pandemic has exposed how...
Can’t touch this or just so gross
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 29, 2020
I am working on putting together a bunch of infection and prevention presentations and it got me thinking of all the stuff we touch in a day, as a nurse. It’s, well, remarkable.
The brevity of documentation
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 15, 2020
Is it just me, or is nursing documentation lacking something? I mean, I don’t expect a nurse to write a book, but I don’t want to play Sherlock Holmes when I am trying to read a nurse’s notes, either. ...
Is this our moment?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Sep 01, 2020
I believe that this pandemic has exposed how people really are. Some inspire me, and some frighten me. Ultimately, it is up to us, individually, to define what and who we are.