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HORRIBLE This does not help improve public images of caregivers. [ Fair Use: For Educational / Research / Discussion Purposes Only ] http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-12910162 7:29 p.m. EST March 7, 2002 Man Live...

Thanks Joe! I know your email because you email my boss all the time Thanks for responding! I want to read your editorial and am very interested in hearing any updates you've gleaned regarding resistance from nurses r/t culture change. Ac...

Well, we're going boldly where angels fear to tread Our CCRC is going to build 2 Green Houses stacked vertically with a radically gorgeous design. Leading edge innovation, thought and care. The snots are already having conniptions but don...

It depends how skilled you are at technique. Some are Ms Tornado lickety spit and have the pt cleaned, lotioned, re-swathed and turned perfectly in 3 short minutes. Practice makes perfect! :icon_twisted:

zenoangel, I'd like to read your editorial but it's a paid-subscription read only so would you like to post it here?

A CCRC I work at is considering this. I heard Dr. Bill Thomas speak in person last week and it was very inspirational. I thought he nailed it! However, I can see huge, HUGE issues implementing this. There are definite entrenched turf wars alread...

The Dr needs to respect and LISTEN to the RN. One explanation is all it should take. The CNA, RN, Dr and pts are all at risk here. If I were the RN I would resign with a polite note and write that I would be willing to come back after the new RN w...

[ fair use: for educational / research / discussion purposes only ] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/health/08nurs.html?ex=1052971200&en=23a82d311e2cac97&ei=5062 may 8, 2003, by keith bradsher at hong kong hospitals, sars takes a heavy ...

You are most welcome :) As healthcare workers we feel we need to keep up on SARS news to be ready to protect ourselves.

We've posted this before; will post it again. There is no place on the Internet with as comprehensive info on SARS as TimeBomb2000. TB2K has daily SARS threads as well as complimentary threads. There are links to all the other SARS info outlets o...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a14743-2003apr12.html infecting the first line of defense hospital staff are hit hardest by deadly lung disease (front page of sunday's washington post!)

SARS has so far proven to be a terrible threat to the health care personnel working with the patients. Also, it has been instructive in watching a "new" disease make itself known. For updated news articles and excellent commentary, read related t...

The imagery cracks us up :roll The demented folks we encounter would not do well "interacting" with a robot. Their moods can hardly accommodate angelic caregivers :chuckle Another pie-in-the-sky idea floated by wishful-thinking bean counte...

We were just about to post this article ... management must be salivating at the thought of replacing nursing with machines. Here's the pic:

Eliminate the inherent abuse heaped on the caregiver and obliterate the pervasive attitude that "You asked for abuse when you chose to go into nursing." (actually said to us by a manager recently *sigh*)

We made up our own form and pass it off to the next shift. Everything documented. Learned how to write really small :chuckle Getting report isn't always easy. We want to know what has changed, what precautions are necessary, which family member...

Nutz. Very simple. In a hospital, never more than 4 pts per RN. LPNs & CNAs help too, but staffing MUST include AT LEAST 1 RN: 4 pts. Recent study proved 4 pts is boundary of safety zone. If hospitals want to save $$$ they can axe all t...

[ Fair Use: For Educational / Research / Discussion Purposes Only ] http://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/about/ocnnews/heyfellas.html November 14, 2002 - The Oregonian, by Wendy Y. Lawton Hey, fellas: Operation tries to get guys into nursing The h...

At our current SNF they hired a pre-audit consultant who said we had to be more diligent about the female chin whiskers

Fantastic! Cheers!! At our hospital, for the 3 JCAHO Hells days, all the pts (for confidentiality reasons) were listed on the board by first name only. Nobody had a clue who anybody was. Considering that each shift was ordered endless "musical bed...

trying again ... poster published in newspaper ... cracking up the entire nursing staff! and the patients ...

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Nursing is supporting a fellow human through times that impact their sense of themselves, whether a jeopardy to their physical well-being or emotional trauma or the joyous birth of a child. Nursing is the true direct hands-on caregiving of another ...

Both caregivers, married, always work as a team, together, same patients, same floor, homecare and facilities. After 30 years of caregiving and all the odd things that tend to happen, this is what works for us. Saves our backs and sanity :) ...

And the little old lady in bed 18B, hip replacement, would say, "Honey, why didn't you try to become a Doctor?"