RunningSoLate replied to RunningSoLate's topic in General Nursing
I finally found the article on this subject explaining the biochemistry of the change of DMSO into the nerve toxin dimethyl sulfate. This is essentially the whole transcript in its entirety of the show that I watched on the Discovery Channel. It was ...
RunningSoLate replied to RunningSoLate's topic in General Nursing
Well, I just couldn't let this thing be. I found the actual case story on the emergency-nurses site and here it is: Apparently when DSMO is hyperoxgenated (getting O2) it changes to DSMO2 in the bloodstream and the problem came when the blood went fr...
RunningSoLate replied to RunningSoLate's topic in General Nursing
Thanks everyone. I saw that program on the Discovery Channel, but couldn't bring anything up about it on their website. I just remembered that when the toxicologists at Stanford actually did the testing, they discovered that the high level of DMSO th...
About 3 years ago I watched a program on TV that talked about a situation that occurred in the ER at LA County General. A woman was brought into the ER and as soon as they drew her blood, everyone became sick as her blood gave off toxic fumes. Does a...
RunningSoLate replied to Navy Nurse's topic in General Nursing
I am making $48.00 an hour weekends, Baylor. SICU 32 years experience. With full benefits. If I was working a 36 hour week/ plan it would be $25.00 an hour with shift diff of 3.50 for 3-11 shift tacked on and $4.00 an hour for nite shift diff. And ...
Years ago we didn't have the Internet and sayings would be posted on the Bulletin Board at work. I have kept a folder of them over the years. Has anyone else? Do you remember this one? ATTENDING DOCTOR Leaps tall buildings in a single bound. Is more ...
RunningSoLate replied to RunningSoLate's topic in General Nursing
I never thought about it that way, canoehead, but I have given report while at the patient's bedside, titrating drips, giving FFP and platelets and running in blood. How DO you measure 200%????????? And to answer NursePooh, well I have never waited b...
Memorandum To:ALL HOSPITAL STAFF CC: From:ADMINISTRATION Date:06/07/01 Re:RESTROOM TRIP POLICY (RTP) In the past, staff were permitted to take trips to the restrooms under informal guidelines. Effective June 12, 2001, a Restroom Trip Policy (RTP) wil...
Memorandum To:ALL HOSPITAL STAFF CC:JOINT ACCREDITATION From:ADMINISTRATION/GROUNDSKEEPING Date:06/12/00 Re:NEW COST CUTTING MEASURES Effective June 1, 2000, this hospital will no longer provide security. Each Charge Nurse will be issued a .38 calibe...
RunningSoLate replied to RunningSoLate's topic in General Nursing
I guess I would not be so upset or suspicious of this study, but our hospital is undergoing ways to "get their bottom-line finances under control", or so they were mandated to do it by higher ups. We were told in a recent meeting that "no nurse was w...
I get to work and here is the following memo. Like it is so shocking to me. What's more shocking is the complacency that fellow nurses accept this as normal behavior. Are we a sick profession or what???? It is like we have become abused partners in a...
RunningSoLate replied to Huganurse's topic in General Nursing
Seriously, I am beginning to wonder if there is any "good" place to work anymore. I have been a nurse for 31 years and the working conditions have just gone down the tubes. We had a unit meeting the other morning after working 12 hours; it was a chan...
RunningSoLate replied to RunningSoLate's topic in General Nursing
It's not just a hospital in Connecticut--our hospital in Atlanta has hired 75 new nurses from the Phillippines. In fact, they set up a "task force" to keep an on-going supply of nurses coming from there. When asked what they were going to do to retai...
The full text of what I have to say I posted under the original topic "screwed and tattoed," but I wanted to alert you all at a new and dangerous trend that has started at the hospital I work in in Atlanta:. . . . . In an effort to problem-solve this...
This is what I wrote in reply to the topic "new grad is discouraged" but it applies here as well to this discussion. I have been a nurse for 31 years and applaud the new graduate speaking out. But here is the deal: Equaled only by the flaming disreg...