Roland

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  1. If "life after death" or prayer were proven true how would it affect nursing care?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    There have been a good number of double blind, case controlled studies involving prayer which seemed to show effects on patient outcomes. In addition, there have been other studies where colonies of...

  2. If "life after death" or prayer were proven true how would it affect nursing care?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I've pondered the conundrum posed by the Second Law of T myself as it relates to the Big Bang, and evolution. Essentially, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says that Entropy (think randomness) is always...

  3. What do you think is the MOST difficult clinical skill to acquire in your experience?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you have any tips on improving someone's chances of "mastering" this skill? My guess is that it might be blood draws, from the old, obese, and dehyrdrated. If not that perhaps accessments, given...

  4. Terri Shiavo Case

    Roland replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    A few points and questions: 1. What is ect? 2. This case illustrates that when you make someone a legal guardian and or health care representative, you had better be darn sure that their opinions...

  5. unions or not

    Roland replied to LolaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I too have wondered about this question. A good place to begin would be to look at those states which have large, nursing unions. I'm not even sure which states this includes, but I think that it...

  6. If "life after death" or prayer were proven true how would it affect nursing care?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Essentially, I was asking if it would become as common as say "range of motion exercises" or "immunizations" of course not everyone partakes of ROM exercises or vaccines, but they are "mainstream"...

  7. Terri Shiavo Case

    Roland replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    Fine, but do the autopsy. This is one of those situations where I wish I was wealthy. I would offer the guy a million dollars to take a polygraph examination from a competent

  8. If "life after death" or prayer were proven true how would it affect nursing care?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't realize that gravity or "black holes was still in dispute. Gravity has been on fairly solid ground since Newton published Principia way back in the 80's, that's the 1680's! As for Black...

  9. RN vs. Psychologist

    Roland replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I would also question the numbers with regard to them making more money. A couple of points to consider: 1. Many psychologist postions consider a masters degree to be the basic entry level degree....

  10. What do you think is the MOST difficult clinical skill to acquire in your experience?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    What is the latest technology available for practicing these skills and where can they be found? For instance someone mentioned in a different thread a mechanical "Bob" where you could practice a...

  11. Terri Shiavo Case

    Roland replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    My point is that I believe that a good deal of assault and in some cases murder is not so obvious as to immediately implicate the offender. I think this might be such a case. I also think that...

  12. What is PC way to discuss spiritual status with dying pts?

    Roland replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    Obviously, when someone is on their death bed you should strive to be especially caring. Ideally, you would deal with these issues before that point. However, I still believe that simple, direct,...

  13. What is PC way to discuss spiritual status with dying pts?

    Roland replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    Why do we have to be "PC"? Why can't we just use simple commonsense and ask a simple question straight up? It shouldn't be necessary to clear cut a forest to obtain enough paper with which to desribe...

  14. Terri Shiavo Case

    Roland replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure that "advance directives" would have solved this case. Even if my wife would make such directives would they apply if I managed to beat her into a coma, and then blaimed it on a stroke...

  15. What is PC way to discuss spiritual status with dying pts?

    Roland replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    Couldn't you just say something like "what are your beliefs about religion and the afterlife." or even more simply "do you belong to any religion?." This would seem to cover most everything from...

  16. Truth about Nursing diagnosis

    Roland replied to UTRN2005's topic in General Nursing

    This one is even better. I know a person who got mostly A's, and her paperwork was always top notch. She was in class with another person who had recently immigrated from Africa, and spoke English...

  17. Truth about Nursing diagnosis

    Roland replied to UTRN2005's topic in General Nursing

    My wife was told by her ASN instructors that Nursing Diagnoses were intended to provide a way to achieve independent nursing interventions that are independent of MD's. Indeed, she was told that such...

  18. What should they teach in nursing school but don't. What do they teach but shouldn't?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    What is the "pbl" system? Where did it come from and what are it's relative strengths and weaknesses? Are there any other professions, trades, or skills that utilize this approach?

  19. Terri Shiavo Case

    Roland replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    Here is one of the stories where noted pathologist Dr. Michael Baden is quoted as saying that a bone scan showed evidence of head trauma. Something that was never addressed at the time of her initial...

  20. Need advice for overcoming or manageing gag reflex.

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    The point was that our relationship and whatever mores/values/ and social contracts that govern it were not relevent to my question which involved ways to manage the gag reflex. I was responding to...

  21. What should they teach in nursing school but don't. What do they teach but shouldn't?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    How about reducing pre-requisites to ONE semester and expanding actual nursing courses into SEVEN semesters (and here I am obviously speaking of BSN programs). Futhermore, how about scoring the NCLEX...

  22. Need advice for overcoming or manageing gag reflex.

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    But the bottom line is that she won't go on this forum. Thus, the only way she will probably be exposed to this information is by me asking it, and then sharing it with her. In addition, she has...

  23. Need advice for overcoming or manageing gag reflex.

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    C. Belle, no offense, but please mind your own business. I apologize for misinterpreting the advice to put the perfume under the nose rather than in the mouth. As for my spending time online you are...

  24. What if someone were to start a "pay what you can" chain of primary care clinics?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    These clinics would seek to get RN's/ NP's/ MD's/ medical/nursing students/LPN's to volunteer as much as possible, but would pay for services when necessary. In addition, it would not take health...

  25. What if someone were to start a "pay what you can" chain of primary care clinics?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    In a very real way these clinics already exist, but they are called the ER! Consider, that here in Indianapolis anyone can go to Saint Francis hospital (let alone Wishard which is the local "Medicaid...