oramar

oramar

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  1. Why did I go to school to be a nurse?

    oramar replied to JB2007's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly, I am going to print this up and mail it to about 10 LTC facilities. Truth is most nurses don't get this kind of

  2. Why did I go to school to be a nurse?

    oramar replied to JB2007's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't it easy for the people that don't have to actually do the work to decide when and how it is to be done. It is no secret that I dislike management and hold doctors at arms length like the have a...

  3. Employees sick with flu need to call out

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I said something in one of my "will you work" post. The government needs to issue guidelines saying that anyone who comes down with H1N1 while working in health care will be covered by workers comp....

  4. Employees sick with flu need to call out

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This will be a total turn around for nursing offices that are used to harringing sick employees to come to work even though they are obviously sick with something that is

  5. Watching the Pandemic Evolve in Utah

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our nephew and his family lives in Utah. My grand niece just graduated from high school AND finished 2 1/2 years of chemo for leukemia at the same time. God please take care of

  6. Swine flu in Egypt

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    One other thing Indigo, am I remembering this correctly? Do you remember in the first weeks of the outbreak there were some people saying that it(NovelH1N1) didn't seem all that contagious? That...

  7. Swine flu in Egypt

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The docs and nurses are already just about run off their legs and this thing has just

  8. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I totally relate to that

  9. Overburdened E.R.'s

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I suspect she was joking a bit. I can't always tell when people are putting me on either, especially in print. You can't read their

  10. Have you ever made a stupid mistake....?

    oramar replied to WannaBeNrse's topic in General Nursing

    Once I stabbed Chicken Kiev I purchased in hospital cafeteria with a fork. The stuff had butter filled center which was heated in mirco wave and had a tendency to explode. It squirted all over me, I...

  11. Real killer maybe opportunistic infections that follow flu.

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09166/977499-114.stm

  12. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My grandmother's 22 year old sister died under similar circumstances in 1918. She died quickly I was told. My grandmother age 16 or 17 got very ill and was sick for a long time(I have no idea how...

  13. Overburdened E.R.'s

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If they have to admit a lot of those people who come into the ER I got a feeling that there will be no beds on the unit(acute or critical) to send them to, a lack of vents to put them on, shortages of...

  14. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yup, that I have been trying to point out, that even in a heavy flu year like 1999/2000 hospital capacity, staff and equipment were pushed to the limits. Next time, may be this fall, there will be a...

  15. Nursing Education and the Recession - Tough Economic Times

    oramar replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    :yeahthat:

  16. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes, thanks a bunch, Indigo Girl has directed me to read your publications several times, really appreciate what you do. I am worried about the downsizing of health care capacity over the last 10...

  17. FAINTING...what made you drop?

    oramar replied to Music_Box_Dancer's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I have never actually fainted but I remember being a student in the OR during a particular bloody orthopedic surgery and feeling pretty

  18. Nursing Education and the Recession - Tough Economic Times

    oramar replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Oh OK, I missed that. Sorry, took it the wrong way. Thought they had doubled their enrollment because nursing is supposed to be a "recession proof

  19. Nursing Education and the Recession - Tough Economic Times

    oramar replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I wonder at which school or university she works. What good is it "packing students in like sardines" when the ones that just graduated don't have

  20. I think article says H1N1 virus is changing.

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/153466.php

  21. I think article says H1N1 virus is changing.

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was sort of stunned when I read that. I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding what they were saying. So OK, I will take it with grain of

  22. I was just laid off

    oramar replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I can't believe it happened to you. I read your post all the time and I didn't think it would happen to you. Sorry, surely the skills you have are

  23. Bad News

    oramar replied to beckylpn1's topic in General Nursing

    Big hug, best wishes for good outcome for your

  24. Pneumococcal Vaccine

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I wonder how often you have to get them. It has been four years since I had

  25. Officially a Pandemic, Phase 6

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As always I am hanging on every word posted on this matter. It is waning in Pittsburgh area now that the schools are out. Have just bought two books for instruction how to prepare if it returns in...