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  1. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes, especially since the reports were bordering on hysterical back in April and May BEFORE there were any deaths. I don't want hysterics, hype or ignorance, I just want the

  2. Nursing Retirement Plans

    oramar replied to bds165's topic in General Nursing

    That varies so widely depending on where you are and for whom you are working. The majority of institutions have switched to 401k and 403b and I am sure you have heard what a disappointment they...

  3. How did this happen! Help I don't want to be this kind of nurse!!

    oramar replied to female12233's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think having those moments you describe make you a bad nurse or a bad person. I certainly have had them but I always stopped, took a deep breath, reminded myself of my mission and tried to...

  4. Money for preperations.

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The following is just my opinion. Chances are the vaccine will come to late to put much of a dent in this falls outbreak, an outbreak which becomes more certain everyday. However, every other H1N1...

  5. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Why is the news coverage about this South American outbreak so anemic? It sounds as if they are having a ****of a time down there. Everything piece of info about what is going on down that I have...

  6. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes, it is a little hard to follow the translation. I mean it looks like it says the father is more upset about the death of the fetus than the mother. But perhaps I miss understand because the...

  7. People continue to come up with stories that strain my ability to believe them

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    This post has some good stuff in it. Personally this is how I would handle it if I were the boss. I would tell the person that there are complaints that they are disappearing for long periods. That...

  8. People continue to come up with stories that strain my ability to believe them

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Was was the most unbelievable to me was that this manager wanted a busy charge person to leave her post and go sneaking around the basement of the hospital looking for the guilty party. Not supprised...

  9. Could you new grads that had trouble with job search do me a favor.

    oramar posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    It seems that the number of post by frantic new grads who have not been able to get a job are dropping off. I think maybe the tight job market is easing but I don't know that. Actually I am worried...

  10. States Told to Prepare for Worst Case Swine Flu Scenario

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This warnings in this article are not overstated. Old saying, "better to be safe than

  11. flu was jumping from pigs to people and back all along, no one was paying attention

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156692.php

  12. flu was jumping from pigs to people and back all along, no one was paying attention

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That is tooo big of a co-incidence that the people work on a pig farm, just tooo

  13. A serious issue regarding patient care

    oramar replied to jon1989's topic in General Nursing

    By compression stockings do you mean TEDs? The have been proven useless and it is exhausting putting them and and difficult to do without pinching. It is a shame but it will be 20 more years before...

  14. Needed, Flu Summit

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    We are going to have a economic summit in Pittsburgh soon. North and perhaps South America needs to have a similar summit to discuss H1N1 and H5N1. No I don't want to send a bunch of public servants...

  15. Needed, Flu Summit

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I keep thinking about how Mayor Bloomberg dragged his feet and denied and how it almost got away from them, some would even say it did get away from them. If they started to talk about closing...

  16. high tech smart face mask

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156537.php

  17. I guess I'm too HOT to be a nurse.

    oramar replied to KY RN's topic in General Nursing

    You don't want to work for anyone that is so stupid as to put their career on the line by saying something like that. She should have shut her trap right after she told you she wasn't

  18. Surge of Flu Cases in Argentina and Chile

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh dear, I think we are seeing the

  19. What's The Meanest Thing A Dr. or Co-worker Ever Said To You?

    oramar replied to tishirajan's topic in General Nursing

    "you are useless, you are useless", the doc was complaining about a policy the hospital had the forbade pushing Morphine by med/surg nurses. I calmly explained that I thought the policy was stupid...

  20. Swine flu fears spur Canada to stock up on ventilators

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Two thumbs up to the Canadian health service for recognizing this problem. The problem here in the US is different in that our health care is so decentralized. Whether you can handle large numbers...

  21. Goes to show you it is really spreading through out London

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.popeater.com/movies/article/swine-flu-rupert-grint-harry-potter/556291

  22. Psychological Preparation

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I can't help but think about my grandmother and her time and how illness and death were things that people saw on a regular basis. People gave birth at home, the sick were cared for at home, the old...

  23. Nursing Nightmare - Whats's the most number of patients you cared for by yourself?

    oramar replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    11 by myself one evening on a rehab unit, called up the manager, raised cain thought it would be taken care of, thought it would never happen again. Next night came in and had 12, shows you how much...

  24. NP discusses MJ on national TV ????

    oramar replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    About that "drug dealing doc to the stars" that was present at MJ's death. One time on another thread a person noted that "TV host fawn all over people that have an MD behind their name when they get...

  25. What is considered the most serious,risky surgery?

    oramar replied to beachbutterfly's topic in General Nursing

    My vote would be for the multiple organ transplant surgeries. It is weird but people usually get thru multiple organ transplant surgery alive but the recovery period after is a field strewn with land...