Garethaus

Garethaus

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  1. Current Nursing Student Considering The Military

    You're not worried about being sent to a war zone?
  2. Stopping patients smoking

    Yeah but since the patients presumably pay their taxes too, they're paying for their own hospital bill in that shared system. They're also the public you write of.
  3. HIPAA Violation? Article about nurses caring for Tsarnaev.

    I find it very hard to believe that any nurse would share with a journalist any information about such a currently high profile patient, in such a short frame of time of caring for him.
  4. HIPAA Violation? Article about nurses caring for Tsarnaev.

    I think probably the whole story is a fabrication courtesy of the writer Liz Kowalczyk. For all the yakking about patient confidentiality, these allegedly anonymous nurses seem pretty free talking to the journos. No apparent worries about deregistrat...
  5. I am the only nurse getting high blood glucose numbers

    Wait, do I understand some of you are saying it is common practice to wipe away the first blood drop? Is this the US practice? In Australia I've never gotten rid of the first drop when taking a BSL.
  6. What to do if you disagree with the care of another nurse's pt?

    Isn't there a protocol available that specifies in which circumstances a rapid response is required?
  7. It's Finally Happened!

    I posted a few months ago about somebodies unprofessional posts being recognised by someone in the 'real' world.....mostly everyone said it wouldn't happen.......anonymity ruled.......oh yeah?
  8. Women in Combat Arm's Units

    That's a bit of a journey leading to becoming a nurse. With that background, what inspired you to become a nurse?
  9. Isnt it funny that sometimes those who provide nursing care of a certain standard to patients, don't apply the same standards to their own colleagues?
  10. Full Time Position vs. Agency Position

    If you don't mind me asking, how much is the tax difference between the two positions of agency and full-time employee?
  11. On reflection, that should be....what is a fixture in their lives.....
  12. Respectfully, you don't speak for everyone on the former. And you're right in the latter, on this issue I'm not going to change my mind.
  13. What I recall I said was not that nurses shouldn't vent - vent all you like - just not online about patients. To me that is unprofessional. Finding other avenues to vent about patients would be a good idea. Well, I was at clinical today in Australia....
  14. FIRED...Now what and will i ever find another job?

    Four kids, I feel for you. Don't get bitter and keep plugging away at it.
  15. Well, I'm male. I would've thought the name Gareth identified me as male. Gareth - aus for Australia. Also for someone who has a poor understanding of the culture of health care, I nevertheless seem to have identified a relevant issue considering all...