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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You might be interested to know that Canadian research with 2,000 people in 4 different studies revealed that receiving seasonal flu vaccine prior to H1N1 vaccine, results in greater susceptibility to...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The calling of nurses to accept H1N1 vaccine so that their patients will not get that flu from their caregivers; and to prevent deaths of those susceptible to lethal repercussions of it, along with...
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    Best Place to Live/Work in Virginia

    lamazeteacher replied to NURSESTAR's topic in Virginia Nursing

    staunton, 1 1/2 hours drive east of richmond is in mountainous country, and historically intact (no distruction from the civil war - ok, yankee uprising). there is a restaurant there serving southern...
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    Should I Carry Nursing Malpractice (Liability) Insurance?

    lamazeteacher replied to sirI's topic in Nursing Career

    Good, appropriate practice patterns during a calm time are usually great, but when a patient "Crashes", and everyone is yelling at each other, it's harder, if not impossible to achieve. Also, when the...
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    Reanalysis changes findings in respiratory protection study

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Why does the study have to be published, to be valid? Surgical type masks have never been considered effective for periods of time longer than 10 minutes, yet the ritual of using them in surgery, for...
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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

    Exactly! He role modeled the necessity of innoculating children, then later administering it to adults/seniors who aren't caregivers of infants under 6 months of age, haven't chronic repiratory...
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There are many reasons that some member of a family will become ill/more ill than others exposed in like circumstances. There are some known factors that increase immunity, such as getting sufficient...
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    Statins for Influenza. Why Don't We Know if It Works Yet?

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Anecdotal reply: I'm also on the same dose of simvastatin daily and it hasn't inhibited my susceptibility for flu. I've had pneumonia twice in the past 2 years, and may have gotten H1N1 twice -...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    patients do have that right, but we hcps do not, by virtue of our standing for health! if you refused to be tb tested (if you're a neg. reactor), you're not hired, since it's required prehiring; and...
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    Are You Using the Right Mask?

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Visitors to patients have disregarded rules throughout time, and especially now, since respect for nurses is waining. It might be good to tell the visitors that observation cameras will record their...
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    Are You Using the Right Mask?

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What boggles my mind, is that there has been little uniformity of policies for H1N1, as a result of leaders conferring conclusions from their vast resources of knowledge there. They seem to be leaving...
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    Are You Using the Right Mask?

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "We are thus far not assigning pregnant nurses to the room." quote from post # 24 by caroladybelle It would be much safer to assign only those without a uterus, or over age 55 to those patients, since...
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    My hospital's new PPE policy!

    lamazeteacher replied to Chewie_123's topic in General Nursing

    That is much higher than the cost is, for the public at pharmacies! As happens in many presumed possible scenarios, scummy entrpreneurs try to make money on others' hardships. They get away with that...
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    My hospital's new PPE policy!

    lamazeteacher replied to Chewie_123's topic in General Nursing

    i have worked as an infection control nurse in 3 eras, first of all in 1968-1972, when someone thought it might be a good idea to keep trasck of organisms patients had in the hospital. then in...
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    Higher H1N1 flu risk after receiving seasonal flu vaccine

    lamazeteacher posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    i went to a canadian news link posted on another site, and saw the following article: (two and a half weeks after i had the seasonal flu vaccine, i got the flu, which seems to validate the article.) i...
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    How's the flu around you?

    lamazeteacher replied to juliedhl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It would be best if your husband saw a physician and got Tamiflu (or another anti-viral) within 48 hours of the onset of s/s, remained isolated in a separate room drinking lots of fluid, and you and...
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    How's the flu around you?

    lamazeteacher replied to juliedhl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It is not hype, and if you have s/s of flu, be worried enough to get to a physician within 48 hours, to get Tamiflu or whatever antiviral is recommended. Some people say the illness is mild, but I've...
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    Higher H1N1 flu risk after receiving seasonal flu vaccine

    lamazeteacher replied to lamazeteacher's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "We are still waiting for the public release of the data." quote from post#9 What data, Laidback Al? The study in Canada didn't involve data regarding who got seasonal flu vaccine prior to this...
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    The H1N1 vaccine will arrive too late to help most Americans

    lamazeteacher replied to musiklover's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Please write your government representatives, the FDA and CDC regarding GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine not receiving the approval for use. I suspect "politics" at the root of that. Otfher countried have...
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    Estimates of the Prevalence of Pandemic H1N1(2009)-United States

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Your vigilance and dedication to reporting the spread and mortality this pandemic costs, is admirable and brave. Through these threads you created, I'm sure many lives will have been saved through...
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    Higher H1N1 flu risk after receiving seasonal flu vaccine

    lamazeteacher replied to lamazeteacher's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think that more than 2,000 people would be included in any study of those people who got H1N1 flu after the seasonal vaccine was given a year and possibly for many years, if that was the case (that...
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    Higher H1N1 flu risk after receiving seasonal flu vaccine

    lamazeteacher replied to lamazeteacher's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Please expand your comment. I'm interested in knowing how you formed your conclusion. (sort of like asking you to show your math calculations -
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    Higher H1N1 flu risk after receiving seasonal flu vaccine

    lamazeteacher replied to lamazeteacher's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They haven't had adequate time to refute Canada's findings, which do not contain a double blind study, for obvious reasons. However 2,000 people in 4 separate studies isn't anecdotal. Canada had the...
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    Who is protecting us? CDC N95 mask for H1N1

    lamazeteacher replied to JobsearchingRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The answer to that, is no one but we, ourselves can protect us. If your hospital doesn't provide needed, recommended N95 masks, buy your own for your use, and bill your employer for them. When enough...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Indigo's post # 111 contains a "quote from Dr. Osterholm of CIDRAP" as follows: "We don't want to create a crisis in confidence," Osterholm says, "but we have to be honest: the evidence doesn't show...