ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care
ZEBRA57 has 40 years experience and specializes in ICU/Management/Holistic Health. MED-SURG ICU/CVT/CCU/ER, HEAD NURSE(surgical unit); HOLISTIC HEALTH Practice (SHIATSU; stress management, nutritional...
ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care
Thank you..... yes, such a simple test. Also an alert for seniors, where MD's stop routine colonoscopies & even hesitate to do the stool guaiac in patients over 75. This is ridiculous and I have...
ZEBRA57 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care
Full disclosure: In March this year a dear friend 58 yrs old died with these symptoms in his sleep from a gastric hemorrhage. He was a professor im a small town.... small local emergency dept. This...
With ALL of the cutbacks & nurses in the system accepting this as the new normal, why would anyone go into nursing. Here they are moving nurses around like pieces on a checkerboard. There is...
Many years ago, when I was a new grad out of university, I was head-hunted by a Director of Nursing, interviewing for nurses, in my case --- to come to work in a "state-of-the -art"Med-Surg ICU. She...
It is amazing how many nurses working in acute care hospitals feel like this. There was a time that nurses were taught the immeasurable value of their place at the bedside of the patient. The bath was...