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Very good information. I printed it out to remind myself when I prepare PowerPoints for my PhD studies too. Thank you!

Never experienced C-section without anesthesia but do understand the idea as I did experience the extraction of a wisdom tooth without anesthesia. They had shot me up with novocaine but the instant they started pulling it became evident that it had n...

These are things we all know, but you did a very good job of putting them all together in one place. Thank you.

Anyone hired as an instructor has an obligation to instruct. The administration needs to be made aware that this is not happening in this class. Nice lady or not, she needs to take classes in how to teach or get out. Her responding to questions by me...

Write her up - now and when it happens again. This CNA has an attitude that definitely does not belong in the art/business of health care. Years ago, a hospitalized friend told me he had requested that a particular nurse not be allowed to have anythi...

You gave the man the greatest gift of all - you treated him like a human being - something he apparently was not accustomed to.

My dad always worked for precision in our speech. If we twisted a sentence or used the wrong word, he would respond to what we had said rather than what he knew we intended to say. So the correct question would be, "Is there a physician here?'

Many specialists, although they can put M.D. behind their names, are so long out of touch with the basics that they would be of little help in a crisis. It is actually a matter of knowing what to do. My grandmother, who did not have a lot of formal e...

Instructors should be required to correct their mistakes. Back in the old days, when I attended a very small high school, one of my teachers asked me to grade some semester exams in a subject I had never taken and gave me a key to use. I discovered m...

Before I retired, I had to be particularly careful about client contact in public because I worked at a mental health center and this was widely known. Since I retired, I have moved (from Wisconsin to Florida) and seldom go out in public because of s...

Sorry, Dr. Knope, your example does not impress me. The PhD poet would understand the question even if you do not. And the Doctor-Nurse could probably handle the crisis at least as well as the Doctor-Physician. So give us all a break. The best "docto...

Sometimes patients can be extremely difficult - but that is part of the job. Just be glad you are on your side of the relationship.

It sounds as though this woman has been subjected to years of mental abuse. She is so convinced that she is worthless that she has become "worthless." It takes a lot of work to get past that.

Seems to me that ANY open offer to do something for someone is asking for trouble. Even in an ER you could get some pretty off-the-wall requests - and a reminder that you had ASKED for it.

:studyowl: I believe that the main problem was the panic factor. I was born at home - breech - and the doctor did not make it in time. Attending was a midwife - my grandmother. Despite the crisis situation and the fact that it involved her own younge...

Attend a gathering and experience the efficacy of these plants. Note that I said a GATHERING - a communal and spiritual meeting of the people - not a powwow that is designed as entertainment for the whiteman. :smilecoffeecup:

I can understand the basis of the belief that cats "suck the breath out of babies." I once took in a stray cat and awakened to find it sitting on my severely sunburned chest, with its face directly in front of mine. I believe it was there for the war...

We have to keep in mind that shortage of nursing faculty is part of what is driving the overall nursing shortage. So, hang in there - and then go on and get enough training to qualify to teach - we need people who recognize the difference between goo...

Unfortunately, unprofessional dress is the norm in a number of healthcare facilities I am acquainted with. I recently worked at an outpatient mental health facility and found that visitors always came to me for information because I was the only one ...

You live in the United States of America. You are over 21. The activity you describe is not illegal - in fact, it is a required part of your training. NO ONE has the right to "won't let" you. Reminds me of someone I dated many years ago. He told me t...