Roland

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  1. How can you call sending out a virus that killed MILLIONS a mistake?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Your attitude Lanceman has become rather common in the last 20 or so years. What scares me is that those in power (and in a position to act upon such inclinations) may also believe much the same...

  2. Why would they release such as sick person to a Long Term Care Facility?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    My wife treated a 53 year old female with Type II diabetes and a serious case of Necrotizing fasciitis which had already "eaten away" half of her lady parts (she had attempted to drain a boil at home...

  3. How can you call sending out a virus that killed MILLIONS a mistake?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    What makes this so troubling and worse than even something like Anthrax or Marburg is that we are talking about influenza. Not only are we talking about influenza, but we are talking about a specific...

  4. Why would they release such as sick person to a Long Term Care Facility?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I see your points about paying nurses better and the whole revolving door syndrome. However, I'm concerned about something even more immediate the life of the woman. It almost seems like a death...

  5. Would nursing schools have offered this blind student the chance to be a nurse?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    Tim Cordes just graduated from medical school http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/04/02/seeing.no.limits.ap/index.html . However, given my experience with nursing schools I wonder if he would have been...

  6. BSE - Not taught??

    Roland replied to goodknight's topic in General Nursing

    By the way we were also taught BSE in our Assessment class. If I remember correctly I did quite poorly on that practical. We had to remember 20 or so different points about BSE's and breastcancer,...

  7. BSE - Not taught??

    Roland replied to goodknight's topic in General Nursing

    I thought you meant Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy commonly known as mad cow disease. I was trying to imagine how the teaching session might go! Maybe you could show them Supersize Me and send...

  8. Would you treat someone with Marburg Virus?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    That's true nursing is not the Army or even the priesthood. If the job crosses your personal line there is not a law that says you can't quit and find something else (even if it is another nursing...

  9. Would you treat someone with Marburg Virus?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I think that one difference here and there is that things like VRE/MRSA can usually be controlled with things like hand washings, glove and gown changes ect. With Ebola/Marburg they really don't...

  10. Would you treat someone with Marburg Virus?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Several of you have referenced the difference in facilities. I have no doubt that this is the case. However, one of the articles referenced that it was the Doctors Without Borders clinic/hospital...

  11. What did someone do that you knew to get fired or kicked out of school?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've heard it said that most nurses who get fired are released for drug abuse. Do you find this to be the case in your

  12. Why are Hospitals so darn mean when someone fails the NCLEX?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    My wife works at an Indianapolis facility and one of her friends (not the same one referenced in a seperate post) just failed the NCLEX. Here's how they handled the situation: 1. She was stopped...

  13. Why are Hospitals so darn mean when someone fails the NCLEX?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Well in this situation there are at least two others who are working on their own and who haven't taken their NCLEX (I think they are scheduled for next week). I could tell my wife to complain to...

  14. Why are Hospitals so darn mean when someone fails the NCLEX?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    What makes the situation even worse in my opinion is that they have her back out on the floor taking care of patients by herself! Yes, she is still administering medications by herself. I don't know...

  15. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    The bottom line is that we will probably never know if Michael S. did anything violent towards his wife. If I had the money I would offer him a million to take the polygraph (in fact I will write...

  16. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, Michael Schiavo went to court to Judge Greer to get an order for a cremation several years ago after the bone scan (which showed multiple, healed fractures) came to light. He may or may not...

  17. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Millions of older and handicapped people might meet your definition of having no quality of life (hell half my friends say that I meet that definition). As to her personality being gone THAT is a...

  18. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    What I personally believe is that inertia killed Terri combined with a desire by a few to advance a culture where those at the end of life are terminated. By that I mean that initially few suspected...

  19. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I think that her trust fund paid most of the expenses (from the 2.5 million dollar award that Michael sought so that he could take care of Terri the rest of her life) and that the hospice...

  20. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that anyone is suggesting that your area is any more corrupt than anyplace else. I live in Indiana and just last week a local guy "with strong connections to the sheriff" didn't even...

  21. Why are Hospitals so darn mean when someone fails the NCLEX?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Let me go a bit further. Why, are your NCLEX results anyone's business other than you and your employer? As it stands here (Indiana) anyone can do a license search at http://www.in.gov two days...

  22. Could AllNurses ever become a PAC/grassroots organization ?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    That would lobby, persuade and bully both State and Federal governments (not to mention HMO's, Dr's, and nursing schools) to do what is right for nurses and patients? Would such a move defeat the...

  23. Why are Hospitals so darn mean when someone fails the NCLEX?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Good point. The Leftest Liberal part of my brain cries "All Tests are unfair at least to someone" while the right wing Libaugh faction screams that they may be necessary, but should emanate from the...

  24. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Roland replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    By witness I meant a second medical examiner appointed by the parents or the govenor not the general public. Such as the following: http://www.newsmax.com Friday, April 1, 2005 3:32 p.m. EST Schindler...

  25. Why are Hospitals so darn mean when someone fails the NCLEX?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I see your point, but without an objective reference a correct answer is merely the opinion of an author rather than a fact or best answer. We shouldn't make decisions about people's lives and...