clinicalteach

Telemetry, Orthop/Surg, ER,StepDown

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About clinicalteach

clinicalteach specializes in Telemetry, Orthop/Surg, ER,StepDown.


Nurse,nursing instructor who left the bedside after building a device that uses biosensors and predictive analytics to prevent cognitively impaired patients from wandering.

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    Nurse Entrepreneur Roll Call!

    I took time away from the bedside learned how to program and build with arduinos (all through online tutorials on adafruit and YouTube), came up with an algorhythm and started a company that assisted caregivers with preventing Alzheimer's and other c...
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    Travel nursing pay, is it worth it?

    I need to edit my comment about AYA. they were very helpful and switched me to another recruiter, I received an extension offer I refused, my recruiter then told me my contract was cancelled and left me high and dry on my pay still. it wasn't until I...
  3. So, this is coming from personal experience , one episode that happened last year and one that I am currently going through. And I am not alone, it appears from reading through other nursing sites, and facebook groups that this is becoming an increas...
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    Travel nursing pay, is it worth it?

    I am currently working with Aya on a crisis assignment in California. It started off a bit rough but part of that was my fault and the other part was a recruiter that was swamped. I was contacted by the vp of business process and then the head of rec...
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    Tim Raderstorf - An Innovator of Innovation

    I have to agree with everyone about Tim. I've become twitter friends and he has graciously offered to give advice or whatever I'm in need of while I start launching my Alzheimer's wandering prevention device.
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    Admissions people

    As a new marketing admissions nurse/clinical coordinator let me apologize for the dingbats and fruitloops out there. I swore I would never be one of the "golden childs" as I used ot refer to the marketer at my former AL, he brought in the money, i co...
  7. I could just give you all great big hugs! I spent the weekend thinking about this, mulling over everything and rereading your suggestions! I've got a plan formulated, i spoke to some of my staff that came to me after this all occurred and was told th...
  8. So for the past few months, i've been trying to keep my head above water as the Dir. of Residential services at an assisted living. its a seventy bed higher than it should be acuity building, and it was severely under the barr for what state would sa...
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    EMARS

    We have Mars from the pharmacy on paper that are never right, and since we also have residents with Kaiser those we have to type up, I went on line and found a free emar trial and love it so does the staff. Made my boss put it in the budget for this...
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    Targeted by psychotic, manipulative patient

    Congratulations on only having one more week!I'm rooting for you!
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    Assistive Living Billing

    Lol!but you can admit it which almost turns it endearing
  12. has to be about comfort? later on when you have to write more nanda/care plans, always use Maslows hierarchy to prioritize. (Thanks Daytonite and Vicki for turning me onto that list! helped a ton of students out iwth it!)
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    How to use pain as a vital sign?

    don't forget that when you chart about pain, you should chart when it started, chronic or does it come and go , what type of pain(sharp, stabbing, burning) relieving factors, or factors that exacerbate it and of course define what type of scale you u...
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    to my fellow filipina/filipino nurses working abroad

    crap..its late, so please spare me the flame citations from the grammar and spelling police.
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    to my fellow filipina/filipino nurses working abroad

    Here is how I explain why different languages than that of what our patients speak is not condusive to a therapeutic atmosphere: Where we work, a majority of our patients have some degree of dementia or alzheimers, one of the typical manifistations i...