Impactednurse shut down.

I gotta say that I’m shocked, saddened, and not the least bit surprised by The Canberra Hospital’s/ACT Health’s interference with an absolutely cracking website. Ian is a mentor to many and if the s*it hit the fan and I had to go the ED I would definitely want Ian as my nurse. He was controversial yes, but always fair, balanced, and above all, told the TRUTH about people, patients, and healthcare. TCH’s executive doesn’t like nurses having a voice. Just another example of the institutionalised bullying and harassment perpetuated by people that should never have been in health care in the first place.

Im sad to hear Impacted Nurse is no longer. If you havent nursed, you would possibly not understand the pressures nurses work and live with and the lack of support available to those in the profession, let alone the lack of monetary appreciation for a hard job, burnt out nurses dont get much help from their employers, if you aren’t of use anymore, you are on your own in many ways. Impacted nurse was a place nurses could debrief, discuss issues and share ideas, confidentiality was not an issue as patients were not identifiable. As I have said previously on Riot Act, Impacted Nurse encouraged me through both the crazy, funny and dark times in nursing, so THANK YOU IAN for sticking your neck out for the benefit of others, your fellow nurses, benefiting nurses benefits patients in the long run.

Caring has its cost, it seems that it has come at a cost to Ian Miller.

I really want to read the “things found in fat rolls” but it’s gone.

Waiting For Godot said :

Is that the bozo who gave detailed accounts of his patients including items found in their rolls of fat, a direct breach of nurse/patient confidentiality?

You seem unusually upset about his, is there something you’d like to share with us?

Waiting For Godot said :

Is that the bozo who gave detailed accounts of his patients including items found in their rolls of fat, a direct breach of nurse/patient confidentiality?

If so, the only thing remarkable about the closure of his blog and Twitter account is that it didn’t happen much sooner.

The next step should be drumming him out of the nursing profession and ensuring he never again works in health services or any other industry where he has access to personal information about others.

This was all debated moths ago in these pages and the overwhelming opinion was in favour of “the bozo”. Comments like yours show a pathetic misunderstanding.

Waiting For Godot said :

Is that the bozo who gave detailed accounts of his patients including items found in their rolls of fat, a direct breach of nurse/patient confidentiality?

Confidentiality is only breached if the patients or clients are identifiable from the account disclosed.

They were not.

Your point is not valid.

Is that the bozo who gave detailed accounts of his patients including items found in their rolls of fat, a direct breach of nurse/patient confidentiality?

If so, the only thing remarkable about the closure of his blog and Twitter account is that it didn’t happen much sooner.

The next step should be drumming him out of the nursing profession and ensuring he never again works in health services or any other industry where he has access to personal information about others.

Big shame indeed, hopefully he will bounce back as has happened before. Maybe a bit of public pressure on the guvmnt to let him open it up again (and for good) might do the trick?

Well i found a copy of the e-book he released.

http://tinyurl.com/442loly

27 pages, opens to pdf/google docs

That is very bad news indeed. A LOT of people read that blog, there was some really juicy info in it. What a damn shame.