lamazeteacher

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    H1N1

    lamazeteacher replied to JessicRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Continue working there only if you want to continue being lied to, or it's the only place in town to work! No Departrment of Health would ever penalize someone who became ill and stayed home. That's...
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    So sick of hearing about the swine flu!!!

    lamazeteacher replied to wrightLPN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And like laws, guidelines are meant to be broken.... Was that boy over 6 years of age? I didn't see mention of contraindication of flumist for asthmatics ...... but that certainly makes
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    So sick of hearing about the swine flu!!!

    lamazeteacher replied to wrightLPN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Actually what CDC has said is that over 49 'ers may have been exposed to H1N1 before, and could get it again from the attenuated virus. Killed virus is in the injectable vaccine, which has been the...
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    So sick of hearing about the swine flu!!!

    lamazeteacher replied to wrightLPN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yup! I got it in mid August '09, and again in late Oct.'09. Both times I had Tamiflu in the first 48 hours, so the test wasn't reliable. The first time, it was neg., and from what I read from CDC, the...
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    Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "...the possibility of the H1N1 and H5N1 viruses combining is very high with winter approaching." quote from indigogirl's post #167 This is something that will present greater impact on people...
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    Who is protecting us? CDC N95 mask for H1N1

    lamazeteacher replied to JobsearchingRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thanks, indigogirl for putting some rational observations about the various groups involving themselves in this exertion of wills. It reminds me of the sarcastic quip, "Who died and made you...
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    Does allnurses.com make you a better nurse?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    rapkeygurl: We're on the same page. Let me educate you about nonprofits, however. There's no such thing! When money is collected and the budget is intact (which it's designed to be), the overage goes...
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    is this a hippa violation??

    lamazeteacher replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    The best way to observe confidentiality, is to consider whether sharing information about patients, is essential to their care and well being. If not, "mums the word". If someone left a facility...
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    what i meant, was that if the induced coma was done earlier than resp failure with lack of perfusion occurred, it might lower the pulse rate accordingly, providing time for the body to recoup...
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    Have you had a bad reaction to the H1N1 vaccine? If so what happened?

    lamazeteacher replied to pawsomepooch47's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That doen't sound like a reaction to the vaccine to me. Fever, arm soreness, muscle aches, even headache maybe, but neurological deficits usually belong in a different arena. :wink2: What else was...
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    Does allnurses.com make you a better nurse?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I've had to think in retrospect, since I've retired, and in recalling elements of the past, I realize that I was a pretty good nurse. Now I live as a nurse vicariously, through you. Sharing what I...
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    Have you had a bad reaction to the H1N1 vaccine? If so what happened?

    lamazeteacher replied to pawsomepooch47's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well, TV news just reported that some people who were vaccinated against H1N1 flu, have gotten it........now that's what I'd call a bad reaction! So people who won't take that vaccine, seeing it as...
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    Have you had a bad reaction to the H1N1 vaccine? If so what happened?

    lamazeteacher replied to pawsomepooch47's topic in Disaster Preparation

    hmmmm, you're thinking, that's for sure; and running into walls with thoughts that haven't been refined or investigated, yet. hopefully if someone had side effects from having an h1n1 vaccination...
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    WOW! Indigogirl, medically induced coma may be the answer to the scarcity of ECMO units!! I hope someone at CDC or NIH is keeping stats on
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    Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    this is what is happening in china, to stop the spread of h1n1. they say it may have worked....... if it did, you can expect more mandatory vaccination happening here, schools closing, businesses...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    this is a post from the nih, that may help those resistant to having vaccine for h1n1, and/or seasonal flu, in the future. "influenza viruses evade the immune system by constantly changing the shape...
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    So sick of hearing about the swine flu!!!

    lamazeteacher replied to wrightLPN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    it's babies now, schoolchildren, pregnant women, and hcws dying and critically ill folks. a far different scenario that in 1918, 1976, or any other time in recorded history! i can understand how...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If I had it to do again, I wouldn't have the seasonal vaccine first, as I believe the Canadian study that found 2,000 people in 4 different poulations more susceptible to H1N1 flu following...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This was in an article in the NY Times, under "Health" "The mixed reaction from parents about flu vaccine for children is the topic of today’s 18 and Under column by pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass....
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Me too, but I wonder if those young, healthy men would have availed themselves of it......... They waited for a few days before going for
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    the next flu vaccine scandal

    lamazeteacher replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My son says there has been no mention at his company of H1N1 flu vaccine hogging on Wall St. They haven't gotten any there, but he and his wife, with their 6 week old baby arrived almost an hour...
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    the next flu vaccine scandal

    lamazeteacher replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I also heard that and read about it. I'll ask my son, the stock broker if it's true, if he knows..... Right now I'd believe any horrible thing about our economic shakers and
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "If you're so concerned, you're absolutely free to take it yourself--then you won't have any cause for worry when you're in the hospital." quote from tshore's post # 172 I will take the H1N1 vaccine,...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    is it presumably "legal" to expose very ill hospitalized patients to contagious (not immunized) nurses who could give them a flu that might kill them? i sure hope no ob would hire someone with your...
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    Should Obama have been one of the first to get the A/H1N1 influenza vaccination?

    lamazeteacher replied to wanderlust99's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I haven't seen parents of "at risk" children on the priority list for the vaccine, although they could be if sufficient immediately available vaccine was on the