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During shoulder surgery, sometimes orthopedic surgeons like an epinepherine soaked sponge that they place in the humeral canal. Anyone know what is the correct dosage-some just dip the whole sponge in 1:1000 20 ml, have not seen any adverse affects, but that seems awfully high to me. Anyone have an idea?

"Kind of a tangential thought - anybody remember when nurses would get "professional courtesy' from other HC providers??? Aging myself." Where I work the physicians won't even take the health insurance the employees have....

"Teachers are still grossly underpaid in the state of Florida." Not where I live, they make as much as nurses do and have 3 months off in the summer. "Again, I get to leave my work at work when I leave; teachers do not." We are short staffed where I work, and almost never leave on time, have to work every other weekend, no snow days, way less holidays, etc. And teachers here have a real pension plan. I guess that this can also be a geographical issue as I see your point where you live.

What about a school nurse, would they be considered a first responder? No other medical personnel around, first at the scene, not in a "hospital" setting, trained for emergencies?

I agree brownbrook with your statement.

Apple gives discounts to educators. Teachers get discounted computers/ipads. First responders, police, fire get discounts everywhere. Amazon gives working teachers discounts. Teachers, police and fire where I live get pensions, lifetime health benefits- better than what is received in most hospitals today. I am not against any of those professions given discounts, I wonder why what we do goes unnoticed/non valued. I guess the person bringing the patient to the E.R. is more valuable than the person who does the work in the E.R. when it comes to saving the patients. Like to hear others thoughts on this.