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Welcome to Club Nurse.
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Now, let's dive into today's conversation.
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Welcome back to the Club Nurse podcast.
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My name is Colton Lord, your host, and today we are going to cover some nursing news.
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If you have been following along on this podcast, you know that sometimes we cover nurse news, sometimes we have a guest on and they share what they are doing in the world of healthcare, sharing their nursing journey, uh, or just, you know, I've even had people on who are not nurses who share kind of from a patient perspective and what they've gone through in their health journey.
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Uh, but today is one of our nurse news segments, and I'm going to share with you six of the most up-to-date breaking nursing news stories on nurse.org.
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If you are interested in hearing more, uh, if something I say sparks your interest and you want to hear more about it, go to nurse.org slash news.
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You can find all the articles with in-depth uh information about these breaking news stories.
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And if there are any updates that happen with these stories, nurse.org is great at updating those articles and keeping them fresh for you to review with the most accurate and up-to-date information.
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So let's dive into it.
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The American Nurses Association and nine nursing groups sue the Department of Education over nursing's professional degree exclusion.
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We have talked about this multiple times in this podcast about the Department of Education not classifying uh nursing, post-bachelorette nursing programs as professional degrees.
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That is a very important designation.
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That title matters to be grouped in with those professional degrees, and it's all because of funding.
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So beginning July 1st, 2026, so in about a month, the rule would cap federal loan borrowing for nursing graduate students at$100,000 over a lifetime, which is half of the$200,000 cap available for law, medicine, and other professional degree fields, making it harder for nurses seeking a profession in or uh a degree and getting like the nurse practitioner or a certified registered nurse anesthetist.
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It really limits people for from pursuing those degrees unless they have the financial means to do so, which a lot of people don't.
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A lot of nurses don't because uh a base pay for a nurse in this country is not what it should be.
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It's definitely not enough to just pay out of pocket for most people for a degree.
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A lot of people, most people need some kind of help, need to borrow money.
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And a lot of times, especially for CRNA programs, I know this you're gonna have to borrow more than$100,000, usually.
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Um, I'm speaking generally here.
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So this lawsuit from the ANA asks a federal court uh to block the rule before it takes effect and parallels a separate challenge from 24 state attorney generals, uh, raising the stakes for an advanced practice workforce already facing major shortages.
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So, really, this is just making it harder for nurses to obtain advanced degrees, uh limiting the uh number of professional nurses in our workforce.
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And this was a post uh American Nurses official Instagram, the American Nurses Association took to Instagram and made a post that says the American Nurses Association applauds coalition lawsuit against Department of Education and announces intent to file lawsuit.
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A collaboration with other nursing organizations will file a nurse forward lawsuit challenging the Department of Education's exclusion of nursing from the definition of professional degree programs in the final rule implementing federal graduate loan borrowing limits.
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A and its partners are committed to ensuring nurses retain full access to the federal loan resources necessary to obtain their education, and we will defend that commitment in court.
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Thank you, American Nurses Association, and thank you, everybody who's out there on the ground doing this work.
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Because, again, first of all, let's just talk about how insane it is that we need a cap of$200,000 for um borrowing, but that is just the uh fact, that is the truth, that is what the reality of our country and the education of seeking higher education in this country.
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It's expensive.
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And if it's something that you really want to do, you typically have to borrow money and you have to borrow a lot of money.
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And I know a lot of people who seek this level of education just accept the fact that they're taking on student loans that are equivalent to maybe a mortgage or uh maybe a little bit less than a mortgage, but it's a lot of money and it's really an investment in your future.
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And if it's something that you really are passionate about and you really want, you're gonna do it.
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You're gonna get the loans and you're gonna just deal with that part of it.
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So thank you, American Nurses Association.
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And we will keep following this story again.
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I would sign up for the nurse.org newsletter because that's where you're gonna get the most up-to-date articles and you'll be able to follow the story as it progresses, and we'll see how those lawsuits go.
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All right.
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The next headline uh fake nurses couldn't even take a blood pressure.
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A jury just convicted their boss.
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A King County jury convicted Kent, David Mungai Jenga, on all 11 counts of running fraudulent staffing agencies that place unlicensed, unqualified, imposter nurses in long-term care facilities using the identities and credentials of five real Washington nurses.
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Some of these nurses couldn't even take a blood pressure.
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They were administering the wrong medications.
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We don't even need to talk, we don't even need to dive into why this is not okay.
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We've we have covered on this news.
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I don't know why these stories keep coming up of fraudulent nurses and people stealing the identity of a nurse to work.
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I just think it's crazy.
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I really think it's crazy.
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Like, there has got to be more creative and other ways to make some money.
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Like if you are using, if you're fraudulently making money, there's got to be other ways to do that.
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That's not like assuming care of other people's lives when you are not credentialed and trained to do so.
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Uh it baffles me.
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I can't even wrap my mind around it because I just don't understand how.
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I mean, when I've gotten jobs, it's hard enough to verify who my my own identity with with these organizations.
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So to do it fraudulently, it just like really blows my mind.
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But this boss now faces 12 to 16 16.5 years in prison at his June 16th, 2026 sentencing, um, underscoring how a stolen license can be misused without a nurse's knowledge.
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Oh my god, yeah, this is crazy.
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So, again, if you would like to know how this uh shakes up, how this shakes out, I would follow along on nurse.org uh and we will see what the what the prosecution is for this person.
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It's wild.
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Have you ever signed a contract and immediately wondered if you left money on the table?
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Well, that feeling doesn't go away.
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It sits there for 13 weeks, reminding you that you took the first decent number you saw because you were tired of looking.
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Tallywise lets you upload that offer and watch other employers try to beat it.
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Tallywise, get a better offer.
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Guaranteed.
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This story is really sad, this next headline.
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I'm I saw this on social media before I even saw this article.
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Um, but a nursing assistant dies one hour after collapsing while working at a hospital.
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Joquia Renee Morgan, a 19-year-old certified nursing assistant, collapsed at 4 12 in the morning during her overnight shift at Children's of Alabama in Birmingham on May 26, 2026, and was pronounced dead at UAB, which what is that?
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I'm assuming University of Alabama, Birmingham, maybe uh hospital, less than an hour later.
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Why it matters is because her sudden death on the job paired with unverified social media allegations that she was denied permission to go home and that co-workers were stopped from giving aid has touched a nerve among healthcare workers worried about uh staff safety and being heard when they feel unwell.
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The Jefferson County Coroner's office has ruled out foul play, but says the final cause of death is pending additional laboratory studies, and the hospital says its teams responded with appropriate life-saving measures.
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Again, these are these were unverified allegations that she was denied going home after saying she was sick and that co-workers were asked to not intervene.
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These are unverified allegations, but these are things that are kind of circulating on social media and obviously sparking some outrage amongst social media, healthcare workers.
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Wild.
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Again, these some of these stories, when I when I read them and I'm researching them and looking them up, I just like almost can't believe them.
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Uh, but that's I think how most of the news really goes, even not healthcare-related news.
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Yeah, anyway, it does beg the question if you're not feeling well at work, are you gonna speak up?
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Are you gonna be retaliated against?
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Are people gonna look at you like, oh my god, you're leaving us, we need help?
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I don't know.
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You know what?
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As a nurse who's done this for a little while now, I I think that at the end of the day, this is and this goes back to what they say about filling your own cup.
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You can't take care of others if you're not taking care of yourself.
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And that is so true.
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Uh, and I think at the beginning of my nursing career, I was more afraid to call out sick, or you know, I would just I had that mindset mentality of like, oh, just push through, push through, push through.
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And now I'm like, no, you know what, girl, I'm not feeling well.
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You have to take care of yourself.
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If you're not feeling well, call out.
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Uh, I know it's easier said than done.
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Some places don't foster that kind of culture environment.
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There are dynamics with managers, and I understand how difficult that may be, but I just gotta say, you really have to take care of yourself first and foremost, or you become a patient.
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All right.
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We have two more stories to cover.
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Did I say six stories at the beginning?
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I think I only have five actually to cover.
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So that was three.
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We have two more.
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Uh, this headline reads California's psych nurses just won safe staffing ratios after 27 years.
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Uh, California's mandatory safe RN to patient staffing ratios for acute psychiatric hospitals took effect on June 1st, uh, more than two decades after they were required by uh safe staffing law.
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The California Nurses Association sponsored and won in '99.
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There were, I guess there were some loopholes.
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And some like there were nurses that were responsible for up to 24 patients during a single 12-hour shift.
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So wild stuff.
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I mean, yeah, obviously, like when you're taking care of a psychiatric population, understood it's not as like medically complex.
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You're not doing um, you know, a lot of the things that you do on a medical floor, but girl, that is hard.
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And a lot of those patients take a lot of time and resources.
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Um, and it's not easy.
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I can't even imagine what these nurses go through who work in acute like inpatient psychiatric facilities.
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It is really hard work.
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It's a very vulnerable population.
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So safe staffing, yes, indeed, should be mandated in these facilities.
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The implementation was delayed after hospitals warned that more than 800 acute psychiatric beds would close immediately if the original deadline of January 31st was kept.
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Hospitals say complying will cost more than$145 million statewide.
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Permanent rulemaking is still ahead, and nurses say they will remain vigilant to prevent industry pressure from weakening the standards and are pushing for further improvements, including explicit pediatric ratios and protections for ancillary staff.
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Uh, I can't speak much to this.
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Like I said, I've never worked in an inpatient psychiatric facility.
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Uh, I remember doing my clinicals there.
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Uh, just from my experience in an emergency department, I know how demanding it is, uh, how difficult it can be, and how much time they deserve.
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Uh, you know, a psychiatric patient is still having an acute illness.
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It should be treated as such.
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And they deserve the resources and to have safe staffing just as much as the next person does.
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All right.
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And the last thing I'm going to cover today, uh, this is just let's talk about AI.
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Oh my gosh.
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I know we're also tired of hearing about AI, but we got to talk about it.
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Uh, AI failed to catch a nurse anesthetist stealing drugs for months.
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Coworker stepped in.
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So it was the human intervention that caught this, not the AI.
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Um, there was a nurse anesthetist in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who was um diverting fentanyl for over four months.
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And the hospital's AI-powered medication monitoring software, Century 7, never raise an alarm.
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This matters because Century 7 and similar tools are marketed to hundreds of U.S.
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hospitals as a safeguard against drug diversion.
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Yet here it was human coworkers, not the algorithm who caught the impaired nurse.
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Uh, the nurse did settle with the Tennessee Board of Nursing in November of last year, and it is accepting probation and drug counseling and faces no criminal charges, while experts debate whether the failure was software malfunction or user error.
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So, if you want to know how they were finally caught, in June of last year, coworkers reported that the CRNA appeared impaired while on duty, according to the nursing board, he had slurred speech, appeared extremely tired, and was seen standing with his eyes closed and swaying, exhibit exhibited head nodding while standing upright, and appeared to have difficulty keeping his eyes open.
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I mean, girl, that's gonna be me on the night shift.
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But he subsequently failed a drug test and was fired.
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When the hospital audited his dispensing records over the four-month period, it found approximately five instances when Century 7 did not flag missing drugs, plus additional inconsistencies between drug dispensing and waste documentation that the board said should have been flagged by the automated monitoring system.
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Proof that AI can't do everything and that we need humans.
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We cannot live on just technology and AI.
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Well, I understand it can help.
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And I have had people on the podcast who have talked about how AI can help us, and I think there really are some ways.
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We don't have to be like totally terrified of it.
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This just goes to prove that you need uh you need humans.
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Okay, we need humans up in there.
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Uh anyway, that's what I've got for you this week on Nurse News, uh, the Club Nurse Podcast, our nurse news segment.
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Like I said, catch all of these on nurse.org slash news.
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All these articles are posted, they're updated.
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Follow on social media, nurse underscore org.
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They really highlight a lot of these stories.
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They come out so quickly and make them accessible to you.
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And I think as a nurse, as a healthcare worker, while I don't think it's healthy to be overly saturated in all this information all the time.
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I do think it's important to stay in the know and to kind of keep your alarms up, um, keep the knowledge coming in.
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That way you know what's going on, current events in healthcare.
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Uh, it is important.
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And that is what I will say.
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Thank you so much.
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My name is Colton Lord.
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This is the Club Nurse Podcast, and we'll see you guys next time.
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Thank you.
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From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to thank you for being here at ClubNurse.
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I hope you gained something valuable from today's episode.
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And if you did, remember to share this episode with someone that you love.
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Follow me on socials at NurseDaddies or Colton Lord17, and be sure to follow nurse.org to stay informed with all of the hottest healthcare topics.
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Until next time, take care of yourself the way you take care of everyone else.
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Love ya.
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Bye.
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Welcome to Club Nurse.
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I'm Colton Lord, your host.
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By you being here today, it shows me that you are someone who wants to learn, grow, laugh, connect, and just let your emotions flow.
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We are here to share real stories and hear real life experiences from real people.
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You are not alone in this, and Club Nurse is here to show you that.
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Don't forget to follow the show and share today's episode with someone you love.
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Now, let's dive into today's conversation.
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Welcome back to the Club Nurse podcast.
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My name is Colton Lord, your host, and today we are going to cover some nursing news.
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If you have been following along on this podcast, you know that sometimes we cover nurse news, sometimes we have a guest on and they share what they are doing in the world of healthcare, sharing their nursing journey, uh, or just, you know, I've even had people on who are not nurses who share kind of from a patient perspective and what they've gone through in their health journey.
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Uh, but today is one of our nurse news segments, and I'm going to share with you six of the most up-to-date breaking nursing news stories on nurse.org.
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If you are interested in hearing more, uh, if something I say sparks your interest and you want to hear more about it, go to nurse.org slash news.
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You can find all the articles with in-depth uh information about these breaking news stories.
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And if there are any updates that happen with these stories, nurse.org is great at updating those articles and keeping them fresh for you to review with the most accurate and up-to-date information.
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So let's dive into it.
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The American Nurses Association and nine nursing groups sue the Department of Education over nursing's professional degree exclusion.
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We have talked about this multiple times in this podcast about the Department of Education not classifying uh nursing, post-bachelorette nursing programs as professional degrees.
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That is a very important designation.
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That title matters to be grouped in with those professional degrees, and it's all because of funding.
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So beginning July 1st, 2026, so in about a month, the rule would cap federal loan borrowing for nursing graduate students at$100,000 over a lifetime, which is half of the$200,000 cap available for law, medicine, and other professional degree fields, making it harder for nurses seeking a profession in or uh a degree and getting like the nurse practitioner or a certified registered nurse anesthetist.
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It really limits people for from pursuing those degrees unless they have the financial means to do so, which a lot of people don't.
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A lot of nurses don't because uh a base pay for a nurse in this country is not what it should be.
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It's definitely not enough to just pay out of pocket for most people for a degree.
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A lot of people, most people need some kind of help, need to borrow money.
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And a lot of times, especially for CRNA programs, I know this you're gonna have to borrow more than$100,000, usually.
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Um, I'm speaking generally here.
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So this lawsuit from the ANA asks a federal court uh to block the rule before it takes effect and parallels a separate challenge from 24 state attorney generals, uh, raising the stakes for an advanced practice workforce already facing major shortages.
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So, really, this is just making it harder for nurses to obtain advanced degrees, uh limiting the uh number of professional nurses in our workforce.
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And this was a post uh American Nurses official Instagram, the American Nurses Association took to Instagram and made a post that says the American Nurses Association applauds coalition lawsuit against Department of Education and announces intent to file lawsuit.
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A collaboration with other nursing organizations will file a nurse forward lawsuit challenging the Department of Education's exclusion of nursing from the definition of professional degree programs in the final rule implementing federal graduate loan borrowing limits.
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A and its partners are committed to ensuring nurses retain full access to the federal loan resources necessary to obtain their education, and we will defend that commitment in court.
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Thank you, American Nurses Association, and thank you, everybody who's out there on the ground doing this work.
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Because, again, first of all, let's just talk about how insane it is that we need a cap of$200,000 for um borrowing, but that is just the uh fact, that is the truth, that is what the reality of our country and the education of seeking higher education in this country.
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It's expensive.
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And if it's something that you really want to do, you typically have to borrow money and you have to borrow a lot of money.
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And I know a lot of people who seek this level of education just accept the fact that they're taking on student loans that are equivalent to maybe a mortgage or uh maybe a little bit less than a mortgage, but it's a lot of money and it's really an investment in your future.
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And if it's something that you really are passionate about and you really want, you're gonna do it.
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You're gonna get the loans and you're gonna just deal with that part of it.
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So thank you, American Nurses Association.
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And we will keep following this story again.
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I would sign up for the nurse.org newsletter because that's where you're gonna get the most up-to-date articles and you'll be able to follow the story as it progresses, and we'll see how those lawsuits go.
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All right.
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The next headline uh fake nurses couldn't even take a blood pressure.
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A jury just convicted their boss.
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A King County jury convicted Kent, David Mungai Jenga, on all 11 counts of running fraudulent staffing agencies that place unlicensed, unqualified, imposter nurses in long-term care facilities using the identities and credentials of five real Washington nurses.
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Some of these nurses couldn't even take a blood pressure.
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They were administering the wrong medications.
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We don't even need to talk, we don't even need to dive into why this is not okay.
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We've we have covered on this news.
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I don't know why these stories keep coming up of fraudulent nurses and people stealing the identity of a nurse to work.
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I just think it's crazy.
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I really think it's crazy.
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Like, there has got to be more creative and other ways to make some money.
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Like if you are using, if you're fraudulently making money, there's got to be other ways to do that.
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That's not like assuming care of other people's lives when you are not credentialed and trained to do so.
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Uh it baffles me.
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I can't even wrap my mind around it because I just don't understand how.
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I mean, when I've gotten jobs, it's hard enough to verify who my my own identity with with these organizations.
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So to do it fraudulently, it just like really blows my mind.
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But this boss now faces 12 to 16 16.5 years in prison at his June 16th, 2026 sentencing, um, underscoring how a stolen license can be misused without a nurse's knowledge.
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Oh my god, yeah, this is crazy.
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So, again, if you would like to know how this uh shakes up, how this shakes out, I would follow along on nurse.org uh and we will see what the what the prosecution is for this person.
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It's wild.
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Have you ever signed a contract and immediately wondered if you left money on the table?
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Well, that feeling doesn't go away.
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It sits there for 13 weeks, reminding you that you took the first decent number you saw because you were tired of looking.
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Tallywise lets you upload that offer and watch other employers try to beat it.
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Tallywise, get a better offer.
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Guaranteed.
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This story is really sad, this next headline.
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I'm I saw this on social media before I even saw this article.
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Um, but a nursing assistant dies one hour after collapsing while working at a hospital.
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Joquia Renee Morgan, a 19-year-old certified nursing assistant, collapsed at 4 12 in the morning during her overnight shift at Children's of Alabama in Birmingham on May 26, 2026, and was pronounced dead at UAB, which what is that?
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I'm assuming University of Alabama, Birmingham, maybe uh hospital, less than an hour later.
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Why it matters is because her sudden death on the job paired with unverified social media allegations that she was denied permission to go home and that co-workers were stopped from giving aid has touched a nerve among healthcare workers worried about uh staff safety and being heard when they feel unwell.
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The Jefferson County Coroner's office has ruled out foul play, but says the final cause of death is pending additional laboratory studies, and the hospital says its teams responded with appropriate life-saving measures.
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Again, these are these were unverified allegations that she was denied going home after saying she was sick and that co-workers were asked to not intervene.
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These are unverified allegations, but these are things that are kind of circulating on social media and obviously sparking some outrage amongst social media, healthcare workers.
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Wild.
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Again, these some of these stories, when I when I read them and I'm researching them and looking them up, I just like almost can't believe them.
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Uh, but that's I think how most of the news really goes, even not healthcare-related news.
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Yeah, anyway, it does beg the question if you're not feeling well at work, are you gonna speak up?
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Are you gonna be retaliated against?
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Are people gonna look at you like, oh my god, you're leaving us, we need help?
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I don't know.
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You know what?
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As a nurse who's done this for a little while now, I I think that at the end of the day, this is and this goes back to what they say about filling your own cup.
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You can't take care of others if you're not taking care of yourself.
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And that is so true.
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Uh, and I think at the beginning of my nursing career, I was more afraid to call out sick, or you know, I would just I had that mindset mentality of like, oh, just push through, push through, push through.
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And now I'm like, no, you know what, girl, I'm not feeling well.
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You have to take care of yourself.
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If you're not feeling well, call out.
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Uh, I know it's easier said than done.
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Some places don't foster that kind of culture environment.
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There are dynamics with managers, and I understand how difficult that may be, but I just gotta say, you really have to take care of yourself first and foremost, or you become a patient.
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All right.
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We have two more stories to cover.
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Did I say six stories at the beginning?
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I think I only have five actually to cover.
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So that was three.
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We have two more.
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Uh, this headline reads California's psych nurses just won safe staffing ratios after 27 years.
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Uh, California's mandatory safe RN to patient staffing ratios for acute psychiatric hospitals took effect on June 1st, uh, more than two decades after they were required by uh safe staffing law.
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The California Nurses Association sponsored and won in '99.
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There were, I guess there were some loopholes.
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And some like there were nurses that were responsible for up to 24 patients during a single 12-hour shift.
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So wild stuff.
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I mean, yeah, obviously, like when you're taking care of a psychiatric population, understood it's not as like medically complex.
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You're not doing um, you know, a lot of the things that you do on a medical floor, but girl, that is hard.
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And a lot of those patients take a lot of time and resources.
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Um, and it's not easy.
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I can't even imagine what these nurses go through who work in acute like inpatient psychiatric facilities.
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It is really hard work.
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It's a very vulnerable population.
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So safe staffing, yes, indeed, should be mandated in these facilities.
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The implementation was delayed after hospitals warned that more than 800 acute psychiatric beds would close immediately if the original deadline of January 31st was kept.
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Hospitals say complying will cost more than$145 million statewide.
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Permanent rulemaking is still ahead, and nurses say they will remain vigilant to prevent industry pressure from weakening the standards and are pushing for further improvements, including explicit pediatric ratios and protections for ancillary staff.
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Uh, I can't speak much to this.
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Like I said, I've never worked in an inpatient psychiatric facility.
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Uh, I remember doing my clinicals there.
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Uh, just from my experience in an emergency department, I know how demanding it is, uh, how difficult it can be, and how much time they deserve.
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Uh, you know, a psychiatric patient is still having an acute illness.
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It should be treated as such.
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And they deserve the resources and to have safe staffing just as much as the next person does.
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All right.
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And the last thing I'm going to cover today, uh, this is just let's talk about AI.
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Oh my gosh.
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I know we're also tired of hearing about AI, but we got to talk about it.
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Uh, AI failed to catch a nurse anesthetist stealing drugs for months.
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Coworker stepped in.
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So it was the human intervention that caught this, not the AI.
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Um, there was a nurse anesthetist in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who was um diverting fentanyl for over four months.
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And the hospital's AI-powered medication monitoring software, Century 7, never raise an alarm.
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This matters because Century 7 and similar tools are marketed to hundreds of U.S.
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hospitals as a safeguard against drug diversion.
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Yet here it was human coworkers, not the algorithm who caught the impaired nurse.
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Uh, the nurse did settle with the Tennessee Board of Nursing in November of last year, and it is accepting probation and drug counseling and faces no criminal charges, while experts debate whether the failure was software malfunction or user error.
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So, if you want to know how they were finally caught, in June of last year, coworkers reported that the CRNA appeared impaired while on duty, according to the nursing board, he had slurred speech, appeared extremely tired, and was seen standing with his eyes closed and swaying, exhibit exhibited head nodding while standing upright, and appeared to have difficulty keeping his eyes open.
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I mean, girl, that's gonna be me on the night shift.
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But he subsequently failed a drug test and was fired.
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When the hospital audited his dispensing records over the four-month period, it found approximately five instances when Century 7 did not flag missing drugs, plus additional inconsistencies between drug dispensing and waste documentation that the board said should have been flagged by the automated monitoring system.
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Proof that AI can't do everything and that we need humans.
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We cannot live on just technology and AI.
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Well, I understand it can help.
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And I have had people on the podcast who have talked about how AI can help us, and I think there really are some ways.
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We don't have to be like totally terrified of it.
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This just goes to prove that you need uh you need humans.
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Okay, we need humans up in there.
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Uh anyway, that's what I've got for you this week on Nurse News, uh, the Club Nurse Podcast, our nurse news segment.
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Like I said, catch all of these on nurse.org slash news.
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All these articles are posted, they're updated.
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Follow on social media, nurse underscore org.
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They really highlight a lot of these stories.
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They come out so quickly and make them accessible to you.
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And I think as a nurse, as a healthcare worker, while I don't think it's healthy to be overly saturated in all this information all the time.
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I do think it's important to stay in the know and to kind of keep your alarms up, um, keep the knowledge coming in.
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That way you know what's going on, current events in healthcare.
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Uh, it is important.
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And that is what I will say.
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Thank you so much.
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My name is Colton Lord.
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This is the Club Nurse Podcast, and we'll see you guys next time.
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Thank you.
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From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to thank you for being here at ClubNurse.
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I hope you gained something valuable from today's episode.
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And if you did, remember to share this episode with someone that you love.
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Follow me on socials at NurseDaddies or Colton Lord17, and be sure to follow nurse.org to stay informed with all of the hottest healthcare topics.
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Until next time, take care of yourself the way you take care of everyone else.
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Love ya.
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Bye.
