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  1. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

  2. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have said it before and I will say it again. All this is coming after years of downsizing, downsizing, downsizing by the health care community in the US. Another round of downsizing just occurred...

  3. Weaker nurses at night?

    oramar replied to LeeniesMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did work nights for two years once. You know why I did it? Not because I wanted to hide from anything but due to fact the facility had lousy parking for employees. On days and evening you had to...

  4. Weaker nurses at night?

    oramar replied to LeeniesMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel bad for all the fine nurses I know that work night shift. They have to battle these sterotypes like: night shift has nothing to do, weak or bad nurses work on night. I even have run into...

  5. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

    oramar posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09112/964602-100.stm

  6. CDC: H1N1 genes were in swine polpulation for at least a decade

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://KDKA.com/national/swine.flu.genes.2.1016804.html

  7. CDC: H1N1 genes were in swine polpulation for at least a decade

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Five years from now when this is all done playing out Henry Niman is going to be a very famous man when people find out how "right on the money" he has

  8. Vitamins as treatment

    oramar replied to Whispera's topic in Psychiatric

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09142/972021-100.stm

  9. Departed executives got WPAHS top salaries

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Hmmm,

  10. I had my first NIGHTMARE!!!

    oramar replied to Crux1024's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You guys don't know how lucky you are that you have a place you can come talk about this stuff. It is over 40 years since I had my "new nurse nightmares". I remember feeling so all alone and having...

  11. Vitamins as treatment

    oramar replied to Whispera's topic in Psychiatric

    Just recently I read that MS is a genetic disease which is activated by a Vitamin D deficiency. A person could have the genetic predisposition but never get the disease because they got enough...

  12. Mom suffocates child, revives w/ CPR, then suffocates again...

    oramar replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I know we all get very angry when something likes this happens, but just think, she was alone and homeless in that park with the child. On a planet with 7 billion people why wasn't there one there to...

  13. Extra pay for charge?

    oramar replied to Jules A's topic in General Nursing

    My friend was really grumbling to me a few years back. Her little hospital had been bought out by a big conglomerate that just about runs everything around here. After they bought the little...

  14. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My thoughts are that I actually understand it is difficult if not impossible for the politicians to guess right all the time in these situations. However, my advice would be to make your decisions...

  15. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We have had one case in a school in Pittsburgh. The thing is the word of mouth says lot more kids sick than you are hearing on the news. My sisters boys brought it home to her and she is not feeling...

  16. Fewer RNs, more support staff in the ED?

    oramar replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for posting this, this needs to be debated. It is deskilling plain and simple. Deskilling usually does not have good outcomes. It is almost always fueled by desire to reduce cost. My...

  17. Preventing falls from low beds

    oramar replied to BoopetteRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Where I worked we found people were constantly moving them out of the way to use wheel chairs, carts and portable xray machine. They would never get put back and then we would have toe explain why...

  18. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I am an old time South Side resident, sitting here watching my community hospital go away. I have to admit, quite a few of us old timers grumble about this and that and UPMC, especially me....

  19. WPAHS makes antitrust charges against UPMC and the Blues

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I really don't understand what it is AGH is accusing UPMC of doing. I can see it has something to do with

  20. UPMC CEO Romoff's salary hits $4.45 million

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Yes, I admit it. I am retired, sitting here with my feet up, running my mouth, you got me dead to rights. That doesn't change the fact that me and just about every other person I know thinks that's...

  21. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Excuse me for reminising but I think a lot of people in their 60s grew up hearing about 4 major events from grandparents. In order of importance 1. the great depression 2. WWII 3.WWI and 4. but not...

  22. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I thought the same thing as the first poster. When Mayor Bloomberg was sort of playing it down I was wondering if it was for economic reasons and also wondered if it would come back and bite him in...

  23. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You got to marvel at it's adaptablity, marvel and cringe at the same time. It could do another mutation at any time and we just got to wait and

  24. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That age distribution for the late teens, early adulthood is the same patter the 1918 epidemic showed isn't it? My grandmother was born in 1900 and was 17 when she got it. She had a older sister...

  25. ER's Turn Non-Emergencies Away?

    oramar replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

    If it is not an emergency and I "DO" have insurance will I be treated any