wolfox

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1. Does health care in general do any good for our species?

   wolfox replied to mattcastens's topic in General Nursing

   Responses to the orignal poster's query which address issues concerning quality of life at 85 or by quadraplegics are irrelvant to the question of whether this leads to a weakening of the species as these people are NOT REPRODUCING or are experiencin...

2. Strongyloides and other strange critturs...

   wolfox replied to Sleepyeyes's topic in General Nursing

   Strongyloides is a worm. You'll need a stool for Ova and parasites. If for some odd reason someone is looking for worms in urine, any sample would work. They can't be cultured and there is no reason to try and quantify how many would be passed in ...

3. why do we settle for such low pay

   wolfox replied to TRN's topic in General Nursing

   Add to list of charges to patient: $10.00 per step for every item that the patient/family member "needs" (extra pillow, magazine, pen, phone book, juice, etc....) This could really add up for the patient who denies that they need anything when you a...

4. Treatment of Agency Staff

   wolfox replied to nightingale's topic in Agency

   Thanks Brownms46...sometimes when you are in the midst of it you just have to do the best you can for the patients...most of the time when working with the worst of the nurses (the one who is such a good nurse that she can chart assessments on patie...

5. why do we settle for such low pay

   wolfox replied to TRN's topic in General Nursing

   Exactly Robert! As long as hospitals pay us just to "sit at the desk" or whatever it is that we do we will be low-paid blue-collar workers to them. Each profession not only has regulatory boards and technical trainging-but they also demand and recie...

6. Euthanasia/Spirituality

   wolfox replied to BBelle's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks ladymdc...I trained as a student in one of the top cancer hospitals in the country and was awed by what we are technically capable of doing but also horrified at some of the tragic suffering it causes. I also worked at hospice (with many CA p...

7. Treatment of Agency Staff

   wolfox replied to nightingale's topic in Agency

   That's how it works out. The hospitals and staff members who are rude to agency nurses or who dump work eventually have a heavier work load themselves because no one wants to work with them. They have to keep retraining new agency or staff nurses t...

8. Euthanasia/Spirituality

   wolfox replied to BBelle's topic in General Nursing

   The majority of posts opposed to euthanasia cite "ethical" positions as your reason for opposing physician assisted suicide. On the other hand those of us who are in favor of physician assisted suicide speak from humanistic responses to physical rea...

9. why do we settle for such low pay

   wolfox replied to TRN's topic in General Nursing

   Cost of living still doesn't account for nurses being paid less than unskilled workers in the same town or even in the same hospital. Nurses get paid less because a) like the previous poster said-nurses put more effort into running other members of t...

10. Treatment of Agency Staff

    wolfox replied to nightingale's topic in Agency

    I have worked agency both per diem and traveler and I would find it hard to cast a vote just because there is such variability from hospital to hospital and individual at the hospital. I have gotten dumped on regurlaly by certain indivuduals. It's no...

11. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

    wolfox replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and I love the families who think that if you are at the nurse's station it is because you don't have anything to do. You are just sitting there awaiting your next "fetch and step" assignment from the hotel patrons. Like last night when I was ...

12. Letter of support

    wolfox replied to zumalong's topic in General Nursing

    What a great essay! Here's what irks me. Night before last the state TV news did a broadcast on the nursing shortage here in New Mexico. They interviewed several nurses who gave their opinions on why there is a nursing shortage. Then they ended t...

13. Did anyone see the news reports about Washington stepping into NH care

    wolfox replied to nursedawn67's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly.."one moment of carelessness could result in the death of another"...so why pay people entrusted with such a responsibility the same as someone for whom one moment of responsibility could result in burnt french fries? And then we act all be...

14. Did anyone see the news reports about Washington stepping into NH care

    wolfox replied to nursedawn67's topic in General Nursing

    door and personal alarms are only half the battle...when someone elopes and you do manage to find them...what if they don't want to come back into the building?...all you can legally do is walk with them until you can convince them that they would be...

15. Did anyone see the news reports about Washington stepping into NH care

    wolfox replied to nursedawn67's topic in General Nursing

    It's this simple. The aging population is growing. And it ain't getting any easier to find people who can lift 3 times their own weight, have the sensitivity to know when a aphasic is ill, and the stomach to spend their weekends up to their elbows ...