lamazeteacher

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    Severe Cases of H1N1 at Risk for Pulmonary Emboli

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Pulmonary emboli occur in patients in ICUs with some frequency, as their inhibited ability to move can cause DVTs, which in turn land in the lungs with lethal results. Baseline scans for emboli need...
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    Vaccination Discussion: Free-for-all....

    lamazeteacher replied to Laidback Al's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Expressing feelings is a lot different than making up falsehoods, which is what I see "Zena Bethune" and his/her ilk doing, in a misguided attempt to get attention and spread malaise about our...
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    How come grading scales for passing classes in NS are so much higher in the USA?

    lamazeteacher replied to student456's topic in International Nursing

    I graduated from a 3 year hospital program in Montreal, which required higher grades to pass, than Ontario. However, experience has taught me, that nursing schools at universities in the USA have the...
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I submitted a comment in the newspaper link herein, about the need to immediately access healthcare with H1N1 making rounds, and have the vaccination ASAP (not in a critical way). This incident...
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    A Link To Some Facts on the H1N1 Vaccine Controversy

    lamazeteacher replied to Scrub Monkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Scrub monkey, I would have thought from your moniker and the content of the offensive overreaction you wrote when indigogirl gave you feedback, that you worked in the O.R. Peds, huh? I took the quizes...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Geez! Are all of you angry protesters who say you know what's good for you (and your patients) unaware of the tried and true saying that the (physician) person who treats themselves (and/or their...
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    Why I'm Not an Anti-Vaxer

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Post #1 quote by RuRNurse "..... I am against forcing anyone to receive an untested substance as a condition of employment......." I must take issue with RuRnurse posting the above misinformation! The...
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    Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

    lamazeteacher replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Disaster Preparation

    it's not big pharm in control, but hospital administrators exercising their authority; and no one is immune from litigation (it's just that the average person is too poor to pay for lawyers for it -...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "A survey conducted in mid-September by the Harvard School of Public Health found that 53% of adults intended to get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves, but only 40% of adults were "absolutely certain"...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I just listened to Dr. Auwaerter's comments on Medscape. He states that mandatory flu vaccine administration is in the same category as the obligatory wearing of automobile safety belts, and Child...
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    Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I wonder what the availability of antivirals is, in Vietnam. 6 days with a pregnant woman showing such overt signs of flu, is too many. However not surprisingly, the report lacks
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    Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    When I consider going to a new doctor or nurse practitioner, it is not their education that indicates who I favor. It is rather their experience doing what I need them to do. I would rank a nurse...
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    Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

    lamazeteacher replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Disaster Preparation

    are you thinking that dozens of years of human field testing are necessary to make you feel secure getting the vaccine? by then the virus will have mutated to something else....... if everyone felt...
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    Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    lamazeteacher replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There must have been a problem getting HCWs to take the HepB series of vaccinations, as anyone who doesn't want to do that, signs a release saying they either had the series previously, or refuse to...
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    Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

    lamazeteacher replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If you read the literature about the field tests done with H1N1 A flu vaccine, you'll see that n is high and results are good. This 70 year old little overweight person is getting it the minute it's...
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    Full Time (Hourly) or Part Time (Per Pt.)

    lamazeteacher replied to msslim's topic in Home Health

    Most HH agencies want their staff to be part time so they don't have to give them benefits. It depends on whether you need them or not. After you get some HH experience, you can let them know you'd...
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    From the Other Side of the Bed Rails - When the Nurse Becomes the Patient

    lamazeteacher replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I hope you will read Elizabeth Kubler=Ross's books about Death and Dying, TNButterfly. In the stages of grief, you'll recognize where you are with yours. I'd say anger and depression, from your posts...
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Reading the article in Knoxville's "Volunteer" newspaper, I clicked on the "UT lineman............" article. He was another person who died (H1N1 test not confirmed) without having a prior condition....
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    No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    How loud and how many times must people be told that any case of flu-like symptoms is to be treated as H1N1?!!!! 15 days later, is too long!!! 12 days in hospital waiting for lab results is too...
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    Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you so much for going to conferences, keeping up with H1N1 data, and keeping us informed, Indigo girl! The S. American plan above looks doable here...... Certainly it would prevent those wioth...
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    Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    lamazeteacher replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What could "treatment without support" mean, in post # 140? Certainly no follow up occurred when no admission to Thien Hanh General Hospital happened; no Tamiflu given when patient first prersented;...
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    From the Other Side of the Bed Rails - When the Nurse Becomes the Patient

    lamazeteacher replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I love Butterfly's patience and acceptance of those medical team members who haven't included her on her own patient care team! I've been a patient too many times, and have learned to participate with...
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    From the Other Side of the Bed Rails - When the Nurse Becomes the Patient

    lamazeteacher replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    ".......I will also strive harder to ensure that my patients are ALWAYS dry. ......" quote from Manda Taye's post # 56 If more nurses and families felt as you do about adult incontinence, perhaps we'd...
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    Getting vaccinated after contracting the flu?

    lamazeteacher replied to herring_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The wacky element here, is that "seasonal" flu prevention is being lumped along with H1N1 flu. The original poster has illuminated an administration's disregard of regulations that made it necessary,...
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    Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    lamazeteacher replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    Well I told the docs and the communities in which they're expected to work, by writing an essay that was published in the "Opinion" section of our local newspaper. I told them that their new/current...