JMBnurse

This is an old post, but reading it makes my blood boil and also makes me proud to be a nurse. The pride comes from the unanimous compassionate and educated responses. This situation happens all the time in hospitals every day and the attitude is n...

This is true for my hubby, too and it has concerned me. We live in a fairly small town and we have an uncommon last name. My husband is self-employed, so he believes that he can say whatever he wants on Facebook. I stopped posting political commen...

When my daughter was in 3rd grade, she came home one day with lice. As a nurse, I discovered it and had not received any warning or notification from the school. I promptly freaked out and proceeded to boil the entire contents of our house and ever...

I met my husband when we worked at the same hospital 17 yrs ago. We've been married for 11 yrs. He was a nurse in the ER and I was a nurse on the M/S floor. My first impression of him was that he didn't dress pediatric IV's appropriately. He eventu...

If the patient is relatively stable, as they should be coming to a M/S floor, I am okay with a brief, just the facts ma'am report. I'm also okay with looking up some of the information, if you are slammed and the patient is stable. If you tell me th...

OP... How interesting... You took the conversation to another room and everyone followed. Wonder what that says? I have read quite a few of the posts and I find the debate interesting. I have been a nurse for 19 years and I still feel it was a call...

We are all real nurses no matter where we work. I worked in acute care for 13 years after graduation and have worked the past 6 yrs in Case Management. I may be a little old school in believing that new graduates should work in acute care for at le...

I wouldn't do this again. This sounds bizarre. Most doctors I have worked with talked to the family at length and then wrote the DNR with progress notes detailing the conversation with the family. Some docs would prefer to have a nurse in the room...

This sounds like just a slight revision of our current system. This sounds to me like, again, it would only benefit the wealthy and college graduates with good jobs. The working poor who are not eligible for Medicaid would struggle with this type o...

This article outlines a study done on preventable deaths in the US and 18 other industrialized countries with data from the World Health Organization. The study was done for 1997-1998 and updated again in 2002-2003. I believe the final data from the ...

I am not sure what you mean as my point was that Mississippi is the poorest state in the Union. I read something recently that said obesity has had a huge impact on their economy. They are 3rd in the nation. However, I'm sure it is comforting to Mis...

Wow, where were all of you flu shot supporters when I was getting pummeled on one of the other threads!

Thank you to our Canadian friends for coming here and offering your opinions on healthcare and assisting in our debate, even though as they say where I'm from, you don't have a dog in that hunt. Please know that not all Americans feel the same. Abo...

If you don't want to pay taxes at all, well good luck with that. If it were up to me, I would prefer to take the taxes we already pay and instead of using all of that money to buy more "uniforms" we don't need, use it for healthcare for our citizens...

Sorry, CountyRat, we have been hashing out whether or not healthcare is a right for almost 3 weeks now, so the discussion has expanded a little from time to time. I believe that you are correct- Healthcare is a need. I also believe it is a human r...

Thank you. I don't know if he has tried to purchase individual coverage, but I will ask. He has Addison's disease, so I don't think they can refuse him, but I'm not sure if that will make the premiums much higher. Insurance premiums and taxes hurt,...

That post was not about the Affordable Healthcare Act, it was in response to your post about "negotiating". Many years ago, I was told that if you had a hospital bill, either with or without insurance, you could just talk to them and "negotiate" and...

Wow, that's great. Your friend and daughter are very lucky. I worked with a Unit Secretary who was paid just a little over minimum wage and was in a car accident a few years ago. She was brought to the hospital where we worked and treated. Her st...

They could afford the health insurance premium. It isn't offered where they work. They already pay taxes. They can afford premiums and taxes taken out, they cannot afford hundreds of dollars in cash up front for office visits, medications and tests.

We already have free healthcare for the poor. Have for a long time. The Affordable Healthcare Act strives to provide healthcare for those who do not qualify for Medicaid, but cannot get private insurance. It will not be free for everyone. Currentl...

It's not a choice I would ever want to make, but if I had to choose between temporary and possibly limited "paralysis" and permanent heart muscle damage or permanent heart failure, pulmonary fibrosis or permanent hearing loss, just to name a few, yes...

Pesky CDC statistics. Did you work at "The Guillain Barre Center"? If so, my apologies. If not, then that statement is false. The CDC classifies healthcare workers as one of the specific sets of populations that should be vaccinated yearly. Guil...

First of all, you are saying that your physician wrote a note saying the flu vaccine was "contradicted" for you, when it is not? Wow. I hope most physicians would refuse to sign that note as it sounds unethical to me if the true reason is that you ...

Obviously, I'm a proponent of the flu vaccine. I guess it comes from years of nursing and seeing elderly and compromised people die from influenza. One who came as close to dying as a person can was my mother who caught the flu at the age of 53 and...

It's true, you can sue for just about anything in this country, but you will be unlikely to ever get in front of a judge for the dismissal phase because unless you have money to waste, you will not find an attorney who will take that case. I agree wi...