Kids, Mental Health, and Emergency Care This is based on the journal article Pediatric Mental Health Care in Emergency Departments: A Review of the Literature by Kadian Magerl and Beth Swan, published in Pediatric Nursing in 2025. All statistics and references are found in the references list of their article. The United States is seeing…
Author: Logan
Hoosiers
So the governor of Indiana told medicaid programs they could not advertise on the radio or television… this will help keep medicaid costs down, sure. How will it keep costs down? By not letting Hoosiers know there is healthcare available to them if they qualify for these programs…. thereby not providing healthcare to them. Well…
Coercion in Psychiatric Nursing
Research shows that coercive practices — subtle and overt — remain deeply embedded in everyday psychiatric care. A 2023 qualitative study by Aragonés-Calleja and Sánchez-Martínez asked nursing staff at an inpatient psychiatric unit about their knowledge and experience of coercion. More than a third of participants had never heard the word or couldn’t define it…
The Sacred Moments in Emergency Nursing
There are moments as a nurse that stand out. I am a behavioral health nurse, currently working triage in an emergency department. One day, when I came on shift, I received report on a patient who arrived during the night. They had used a substance and were found unclothed walking along the road. When they…
Mental Health Disparities Among LGBTQ+ Communities
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer + (LGBTQ+) populations, especially transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals, face considerable mental health disparities, social stigma, discrimination, and minority stress. Thomas et al. (2025) found that TGNC people frequently experience Healthcare Avoidance and Delay (HAD) as a result of systemic and interpersonal barriers, which in turn…
Welcome
So, I am trying to figure out how to use this system, please give me some grace while I stumble through. I plan on sharing items from the news on transgender rights, health, etc. I also want to focus on healthcare, nursing, and research. Other interests are the unhoused, and mental health. This is going…