OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk

RN, MSN, CNL; recovering lobbyist and foreign affairs wonk; active Catholic; nurse, policy, current events, leadership, lactation, birth, and fitness enthusiast

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@PageSix The maternal mortality crisis in the US persists 😔. Medicaid covers prenatal and birth care for nearly half of American mothers every day— there will be more babies going home without moms after the $700 billion in cuts passed in the BBB.

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@jgrlilli @MDsarecomplicit This is it no notes

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@katnipurr @RockyMountViews I have wondered this— the attorney might actually be an American hero (but also a terrible attorney)

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@heartdocandcrew Is someone cutting onions in here 🥹

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@jesskeimmalpass I feel like there are far worse mistaken identity situations 🫶🏼

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@CatDocMD I would be now that I’m a nurse and ACLS/BLS trained many times over. But the first and only time it’s happened to me in the community I was way too nervous. The young woman caring for my infant nephews was already deceased by the time I arrived, but I still feel regret.

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@NZtwitwit @drjrutland This could do it

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@aribindi @drjrutland 🤣 you’re clearly NOT a nurse or MD sitting at the bedside telling your patient you’re sorry she has to be in this awful bed all weekend waiting to hear if her baby will survive, missing the comfort of her living children, because we don’t have MFM on the weekends

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

At various points my children’s specialist appointments have been my part time job. Today was one of the most wasteful abuses of the healthcare system I’ve ever witnessed. @InovaSchar you can do so much better by your patients, especially your pediatric patients.

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@jesskeimmalpass Aww I miss watching these rise on the horizon beteeen Culpeper and Cville! Such a calming harbinger of spring and summer!

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@kerricwade This is so terrible.

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@tyhigaki We are all living this nightmare. 🥺

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@nursingdean @JHUNursing A HUGE reason I chose NPs for myself and family whenever I can, because I often find that even the “credential parade” doesn’t always work with physicians...

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@LoACoo @Slightly_eric_ @DTylerKingDO @thatgirl409 “Expansion if scope” is something of a misnomer as well— it’s about allowing ALL practitioners the chance to practice to the full scope of their training and education.

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@lemur_katta1 @thatgirl409 I’ve found this to be extra true in specialty clinics. They are extremely smart, but have that something special when it comes to communicating with patients 💗

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@chanimal204 @sarah_DNPeds @PHDPsyDr @PhlawlessPharm @thatgirl409 As a PATIENT’S PARENT I got yelled at by a surgeon for a referral made by our pediatric NP. He was so rude, we ultimately drove 75 miles to seek a second opinion because I wasn’t sure I could trust his professional opinion since he was a flat out asshole to me and my 8 month old!

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@yourheartnurse @mamiern85 @thatgirl409 A thousand times this! The bright, promising fresher nurses, ESPECIALLY the career changers, look at the garbage way they’re treated by the hospital system and realize if they want to stop being treated like an expendable cog, the only way out is up. Huge brain drain.

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@kyliemoriah96 +1000 internet points 🔥

[OnceaWonkAlwaysaWonk @ChandraBurnside]

@WinQuinnPhD 😓thank you for honoring the lost nurses!

[St. Thomas More Cathedral School @STMSchoolVAUSA]

STM seamlessly transitioned to instructing PreK-8 students online. How did we do it?
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