Working 'round the clock
by Susan Trossman, RN
Valerie Hartman, an RN and SICU staff nurse, never pulled an all-nighter while she was in nursing school. She just wasn't a night person.
Yet for two years, the registered nurse was required to rotate from days to nights at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. During that time, she suffered debilitating migraines, which sometimes forced her to miss work.
Massachusetts board reprimands Dana-Farber nurses
Decision announced just as board holds hearings on controversial nursing regulations
After months of awaiting their fate at the hands of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (BORN), 13 of the 18 nurses involved in a 1994 chemotherapy overdose at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have accepted formal reprimands and have agreed to undergo retraining or recertification. Three other nurses have refused to accept any sanctions from the board and were scheduled for a disciplinary hearing Oct. 6, and two others accepted a year's probation last December to avoid formal charges and a full-scale hearing.
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