ZEBRA57

ZEBRA57 has 40 years experience and specializes in ICU/Management/Holistic Health.

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1. Case Study: My Stomach Hurts

   ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical

   ZEBRA57 has 40 years experience and specializes in ICU/Management/Holistic Health. MED-SURG ICU/CVT/CCU/ER, HEAD NURSE(surgical unit); HOLISTIC HEALTH Practice (SHIATSU; stress management, nutritional counselling, etc. in private practice). Most rece...

2. Case Study: My Stomach Hurts

   ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical

   Thank you..... yes, such a simple test. Also an alert for seniors, where MD's stop routine colonoscopies & even hesitate to do the stool guaiac in patients over 75. This is ridiculous and I have first hand experience of seniors having to demand s...

3. Case Study: My Stomach Hurts

   ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical

   Full disclosure: In March this year a dear friend 58 yrs old died with these symptoms in his sleep from a gastric hemorrhage. He was a professor im a small town.... small local emergency dept. This was the coroner 's report. 3weeks earlier he had b...

4. Case Study: My Stomach Hurts

   ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical

   Need abdominal scan. Most likely an ulcer possibly advanced stage. Or a precursor gastritis.

5. Is the Baby Boomer Generation not going to get good care?

   ZEBRA57 replied to Cola89's topic in Relations

   With ALL of the cutbacks & nurses in the system accepting this as the new normal, why would anyone go into nursing. Here they are moving nurses around like pieces on a checkerboard. There is little acknowledgement of the need for maintaining exp...

6. Lied to in Interview

   ZEBRA57 replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

   Many years ago, when I was a new grad out of university, I was head-hunted by a Director of Nursing, interviewing for nurses, in my case --- to come to work in a "state-of-the -art"Med-Surg ICU. She told many lies about the set up of the unit & e...

7. A Nurse's Hands

   ZEBRA57 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   Beautiful --- uplifting --- a reminder of the work & spirit we bring to our profession.

8. Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

   ZEBRA57 replied to RNDave's topic in Professionalism

   It is amazing how many nurses working in acute care hospitals feel like this. There was a time that nurses were taught the immeasurable value of their place at the bedside of the patient. The bath was seen as an opportunity to develop rapport & t...