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  1. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    kmchugh replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This may be kind of a long post, but I want to show you exactly how decisions are made to treat veterans. I went to the VA website, and looked at eligibility criteria for treatment. Veterans looking...

  2. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    kmchugh replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    But Deb, you are missing a couple of points, here. If you are correct, and the numbers of disabled veterans is going up, then it only makes sense that the ability of the VA to provide care to...

  3. UCSF OB Anesthesia Meeting

    kmchugh replied to kmchugh's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    IV opioids. I don't have the reference materials at hand, but I think they were looking at epidurals with opioid infusions.

  4. Rambling Physics and Chemistry question..now or later?

    kmchugh replied to Peachy720's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Tanya I'll echo what other's have written. Go ahead and finish, start your BSN. Many CRNA programs don't require you to take any chemistry or physics classes beyond what is required for nursing....

  5. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    kmchugh replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Because it is simple. I can go to the VA. If there is an opening that would allow me to have my surgery there, I could. If however, there is no opening, I would be sent for treatment to a local...

  6. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    kmchugh replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    To repeat myself: Actual dollars spent on veterans is going up, not down, by over half a billion dollars. How do I know? I am a disabled veteran. I have lost zero benefits! What is happening is...

  7. UCSF OB Anesthesia Meeting

    kmchugh replied to kmchugh's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Some of the information from Dr Wong: -Analysis of c-section and instrument assisted delivery rates before and after introduction of epidural pain management for labor demonstrated that neither rose...

  8. Is There Scientific Data to Support Holistic Health Treatments?

    kmchugh replied to CharlieRN's topic in Holistic

    This seems to be a complete contradiction to what you posted earlier, which left me the impression that you had no faith whatever in research. Of course you can lie with statistics, which is why the...

  9. UCSF OB Anesthesia Meeting

    kmchugh replied to kmchugh's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Actually, you are correct. Cynthia Wong was the presenter. I typed his earlier. Either my sexism or simply a lack of sleep coming though again.

  10. Is There Scientific Data to Support Holistic Health Treatments?

    kmchugh replied to CharlieRN's topic in Holistic

    So, your preferred method then, for alternative therapies as well as for drugs released by pharmaceutical companies, would be to simply release the product to the public? No research necessary or...

  11. Is There Scientific Data to Support Holistic Health Treatments?

    kmchugh replied to CharlieRN's topic in Holistic

    As a general rule, I stay out of this part of the board. I am of a scientific bent, and find most "alternative" therapies to be nothing more than smoke and mirrors. However, I am aware of rare...

  12. Labor epidural charting

    kmchugh replied to Harlean's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Before you all get too down on your anesthesia providers, remember that I work at a relatively small hospital. We have a total of six anesthesia providers. One is assigned strictly to OB every day,...

  13. schooling for RN?

    kmchugh replied to future_nurse07's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If you do a search on the forum, you will find a lot of discussions/fights about BSN versus ADN for nursing. Which way you go will depend on a lot of things. If all you ever want to do is bedside...

  14. Labor epidural charting

    kmchugh replied to Harlean's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Just a couple of quick thoughts. As a CRNA, I pretty thoroughly chart my epidural placement, pain relief, etc when they are placed. I also chart 10 - 20 minutes of Q5 minute vitals after bolus...

  15. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    kmchugh replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And at least one of the articles posted by Begalli support exactly what I just said: "Although the proposed 2006 federal budget calls for a 1 percent increase in the overall veterans affairs allotment...

  16. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    kmchugh replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    OK, I'm not only a veteran, I also qualify as a disabled veteran, with a current disability rating of 40%. You want to hear horror stories about the VA, I can tell them to you by the bucketful. But...

  17. OB Clinicals

    kmchugh replied to carolynd's topic in Men in Nursing

    Folks, don't get too up in arms about Moscow. Yes, clearly there was an agenda to her posts. Clearly, she believed men had no place in OB nursing (though the idea of a male doing the epidurals, or...

  18. Why Do We Tolerate This?

    kmchugh posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    You know, sometimes things have a hidden context. Sometimes, that context can be kind of ugly. When I see that, it causes me to wonder why we allow these things to continue. Hence, this thread....

  19. Sigma Theta Tau

    kmchugh replied to piper_for_hire's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just finished perusing their site. It's no different. Apparently, STT believes the only real path to excellence in nursing is to be female, and to become a nursing educator.

  20. Sigma Theta Tau

    kmchugh replied to piper_for_hire's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Near the end of my bachelor's program, I was asked to join STT. I did, and paid whatever the going rate in 96 was. I was honored to be asked. After joining, I started cruising the web site, and...

  21. Beginner with OB epidurals

    kmchugh replied to SproutRN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Sprout Relax. Enjoy this rotation. I went into it dreading OB, because I hated it so much in nursing school. I found that I loved doing OB anesthesia, though, and still do. (OK, well, maybe if our...

  22. Need Your Opinion: Am I Finished in Med/Surg or Not?

    kmchugh replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Marla I can see management's point, in a fashion. After all, if you were no longer able to "pull your weight" in patient loads, and couldn't take care of your patients, then they would have a valid...

  23. Why Do We Tolerate This?

    kmchugh replied to kmchugh's topic in Men in Nursing

    Yes, Caroline, but this forum deals specifically with issues men in nursing have to deal with, and thank you for making the point so nicely. Throughout the nursing profession, that sort of bias DOES...

  24. Why Do We Tolerate This?

    kmchugh replied to kmchugh's topic in Men in Nursing

    Ditto, particularly to the disappointment. Nuff said

  25. Why Do We Tolerate This?

    kmchugh replied to kmchugh's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have to ask a favor for this and all future threads in this forum. Can we please not turn every single thread into a debate as to whether or not a male nursing forum should exist? I don't want to...