ccso962

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1. Nursing or Medicine???

   ccso962 replied to PallaviMuraleedharan's topic in General Students

   Good point.

2. Nursing or Medicine???

   ccso962 replied to PallaviMuraleedharan's topic in General Students

   Another wonderful post! Gender bias is disappearing, or has disappeared, in most other career fields (last October I had a car wreck and the firefighter who literally broke the door open with their hands was a woman and the LT on the truck -- not t...

3. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

   ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   Just wanted to supply a personal story that sheds light on what you are talking about here. My wife has been being treated for hypertension for years even though she is not yet 30. Her father actually had a kidney transplant due to kidney failure t...

4. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

   ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   Yes, the thread has veered a little off course, but not a large amount. The OP was posting concerning the rollout of PPACA and the discussion that has followed has been one based on beliefs regarding how the rollout of PPACA will effect the ER (the v...

5. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

   ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   I can't really comment for other posters, but for my part yep that is what I was saying (even if I said it in a lot more words). Some other posters, however, made it appear that their place of employment was kicking people to the curb, and at least ...

6. Nursing or Medicine???

   ccso962 replied to PallaviMuraleedharan's topic in General Students

   100% agree. If you surf the internet you will find any number of forums that supposedly are for "physicians" to discuss issues with their school, practice, etc. What I have noticed is that it is fairly easy to pick out the "internet only physician...

7. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

   ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   See this is the kind of thing that to me makes a lot better sense than "sorry you aren't emergent enough for me so here's the door". I think we can all agree that an ingrown toenail is not an emergent condition (even if the pain can be immense). W...

8. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

   ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   First, I am sure that elective procedures will grow (they are already a good area of revenue for hospitals). Whether or not a hosptial is under an obligation to treat a specific condition does not mean that they will not. A hospital is a money making...

9. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

   ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   I just thought of something else too. How do the "high acuity or the curb" ERs deal with patients who come to the ER at the request of their PCP? How about the patient that doesn't "present" like a "real patient"? As anyone who has ever worked e...

10. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

    ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    I think the "Fast Track", "Urgent Care Area", "Low Acuity ER", etc. are all better alternatives to just kicking someone out the door. What those who decide to "boot" need to realize is that if they go to court, and it is a jury trial, they will hav...

11. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

    ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    This is the thing that a lot of otherwise well intentioned people seem to miss I think (and again I believe that many miss it completely in error). IF you have more people who want an item BUT you cannot charge more for the item (i.e. such as in tra...

12. ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

    ccso962 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    I am aware of several facilities here in the Eastern US that have actually included an Urgent Care, Fast Track ER, Low Acuity ER, call it what they will into their existing hospital structure. Patients that do not require, as you point out, a more t...

13. The Night The Fire Died

    ccso962 replied to The_Optimist's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work as a 911 Emergency Communications Officer. At one place I worked there was a man who always liked to take the newbies "under his wing". What he really wanted to do was mostly tell them who and what was wrong with the place. If he ev...

14. The Night The Fire Died

    ccso962 replied to The_Optimist's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know that I agree that everyone who has not taken the "pat em on the back and smile" approach is conversely wishing to making them feel like anything bad (or expletive as you say). I know that has not been my intention. I have a saying that...

15. The Night The Fire Died

    ccso962 replied to The_Optimist's topic in General Nursing

    And it is entirely possible also that I just completely misunderstood what exactly you were making comment to as well, so since that appears to be the case then I apologize. That said, I still firmly believe that there has to be an understanding, n...