Nate

Everyone should read this. And anyone who is non stop hysterical posting/catastrophizing online should read it twice

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With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

A silent safety scandal: A nurse’s first-hand account of a corridor nursing shift A nurse’s first-hand account of a corridor nursing shift

🗨️The corridor is not a clinical area. It is a corridor. It was not designed for any patient to be cared for there for any length of time🗨️

A silent safety scandal: A nurse’s first-hand account of a corridor nursing shift www.pslhub.org/learn/improv...

GovTrack.us Tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

Periodic reminder:

You're going to see a lot of bills introduced this Congress, some of which will not pass/and are showboating for the sake of showboating.

I really want to encourage everyone to go to govtrack.us to check the score, before putting forward calls to action.

Yeah, I'm a Hard Pass On Nihilism Not here for it.

"Nihilism pretends to be clarity, but really, it’s just a particularly pathetic laziness powered by narcissism. Take that shit somewhere else. I don’t have time for it. I don’t have patience for it."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/yeah-im-a-...

"Many interventions focus on extrinsic factors. Restorative practice gives you the opportunity to make yourself your own improvement project." www.crownhouse.co.uk/restorative-... #Medsky #Edusky #Nurses #Socialwork

What is consciousness? What kind of agents can be conscious? What is the role of evolution & embodiment? Are there different levels? The ongoing debate can benefit from the insights of this paper by @mitibennett.bsky.social @annaciaunica.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14545

Will the federal government become a toxic employer? Sorting fact from fiction on mass firings, relocations, and return-to-work policies

New, from me: Muskawamy's plans for federal government employees, sorting out fact from fiction.
Bottom-line: mass firings are unlikely, some proposals are real, but likely to worsen state capacity.
Making the government a toxic employer is bad for the rest of us.
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open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage. Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.

NEW: “You have made progress.”
“You are not a danger to yourself or others.”

The denial letter from Geneva Moore’s insurer directly contradicted her therapist’s words. Cut off from her treatment program, Moore slid into a monthslong downward spiral.

propub.li/40iZlPO

In this new article in American Psychologist we respond to critics in detail and clarify two key points for the field;

(1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined.

(2) Misinformation causally impacts attitudes and behaviors.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Tortured confessions? Potentially erroneous statistical inferences may underpin misleading claims of harms in reanalyses of COVID-19 and HPV vaccines The safety and efficacy of vaccination is a subject contentious in the public mind. Despite overwhelming evidence of their benefits to public health, …

An analytic autopsy of sorts on the practice of re-analyzing vaccine data for the COVID and HPV vaccines. Episky 🛟 medsky

“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...

My latest @bmj.com on why an experienced workforce is necessary for safety and productivity www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Perceptions Among Mental Health Professionals Regarding the ... : Journal of Forensic Nursing s the question of which coercive measures are perceived as being less intrusive than others. Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the perceptions of Danish mental health professionals regar...

👇 Our new publication about staff perception and restrictive practices.

💯 "Yet, as a society we are becoming less tolerant of ambiguity. The shades of grey have all gone, there is only black or white. And a CNS inflammatory disorder is about as far from ambiguous as you can get."

The holidays aren’t so happy for everyone — it’s actually really common.

If you’re having a hard time — at any time — call/text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org/chat to be connected to a trained counselor, 24/7.

It’s always free & confidential.

Please share. You never know who needs to see this. 💚

So pleased to see this paper finally published. A detailed analysis of the experiences of consumers, clinicians and support persons involved in the safety planning intervention for suicide prevention. A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.Open Access. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

Omega-3 supplements for the prevention of psychosis: another trial shows no benefit, so is it time to move on? https://buff.ly/4fwRB0B

David Mongan reports on a recent RCT and reflects on what’s next for the field.

#Psychosis #Schizophrenia #Omega3 #Prevention #UltraHighRisk #UHRpsychosis #RCT

Paraphrased:

“These findings suggest that social anxiety exerts comparable influence in Autistics and non-Autistics

Therefore, Autistics with high social anxiety may not represent a specific subtype of autism

Rather, social anxiety exists separate from the autism phenotype”

Caring jobs are the most demanding jobs in America, and that they're so underpaid is almost entirely the result of misogyny and the myth that caring is "women's work."

We could treat violations as the actions of bad people, and blame them as a result.

Or we could treat violations as an indicator to better design systems so they don’t necessitate those violations, and include functions that support workers when they are forced to work around flawed systems.

Restorative and relational practice and patient safety: A blog by Lesley Parkinson esley Parkinson, Executive Director at Restorative Thinking, explains what restorative and relational practice is and why this needs to be explicitly written into the professional standards being deve...

🆕Restorative and relational practice and patient safety🆕

A new blog by Lesley Parkinson featured on the hub today www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #patientsafety @re-think.bsky.social

Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

"The US offers the starkest illustration of a so-called healthspan-lifespan gap that is widening around the world, as chronic illnesses take up larger portions of people’s lives."

cool, cool, cool

Loud Silenced Doctors | Science-Based Medicine When the history of this pandemic is written, contrarian doctors divorced from patient care won't be seen as its principal victims because YouTube removed their video, because someone called them "fri

@joho.bsky.social wrote about this in 2021. sciencebasedmedicine.org/muzzled/