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Last October, my then 10 month old grandson received his first flu vaccine on a Tuesday and by Friday night was having full blown witnessed, video-taped focal seizures. After being hospitalized for a week and having EEGs, an MRI, and several other ...

Thank you for the update... So glad you are happy, challenged and respected where you are practicing. Wish you all the best!

Well, I think you have thought it through, weighed it out, and made the right decision for yourself! Best wishes on boards and your new job!

Hey, Amandagayle, I was curious to find out what you decided? Did you go with St. D or UMC?

as far as schedules, working 12 hr weekends, you miss parties, cookouts, kid’s ballgames etc but you have time off during the week for dr appts, grocery shopping, class parties and field trips. weekends/nights all the "suits" are at home and there a...

Oh my, NICU is my first love, so there would be no question there. I have worked every other weekend and nights as well and now work straight M-F. Also, it's 2 totally different environments. You are right, you're gonna have to decide what's work...

I don't know your age or experience, but as a nurse close to retirement, I have wished many times that I had taken the offer from UMC back in the day. They offer excellent benefits and retirement. I work with nurses now who are in their early 40's,...

This is a "through-put" issue and Joint Commission has standards that apply to patient flow. I'm sure your patients are not "satisfied" with this arrangement either and poor patient staisfaction scores will definitely impact your reimbursement from...

Ordering ASA for AMI patients (not CHFers) is probably tied to Core Measures or the Value Based Purchasing (VBP) Rule from CMS, which impacts Core Measures and HCAHPS (Patient Satisfaction). Using VBP, CMS will redistribute funds to participating ho...

At our hospital we use "Smarties". It is simply a post card with the hospital logo on it and we write a thank you note for what the employee did proving they are a "smartie" and we tape a roll of Smarties Candy to the post card and make a big deal o...

First I want to apologize for this post being so long, but I'm hoping to get some information and/or ideas on how to help my daughter. My daughter is 26 years old, married, with 3 children. During her last pregnancy in 2003, she was diagnosed with H...

Yep! Good place with great administrative staff and a very strong CNO. Hospital has received "One of the Best Places to Work" awards more than once AND this year the State Nurses Ass'n gave us the Nightingale Award for Best Hospital Over 100 Beds...

So far we have had a very nice Nurses' Week! Yesterday we had a Popcorn and Coke party ay 2 and again at 9 for all nursing staff (RNs, LPNs, CNAs) including non-clinical nurses like me! We were given a very nice key chain with the hospital name a...

If it's your blood... try this old quilter's trick and use your own saliva. I know for a fact my saliva gets blood stains out of quilts when I stick myself while quilting.

KNARE, check with your hospital's Joint Commission coordinator... from what I understand according to The Joint Commission, that requirement is "...applicable to psychiatric hospitals and patients being treated for emotional or behavioral disorders i...

With kids you gotta do Disney! ! ! Stay inside the park, use park transportation (bus, tram, boat, whatever is available), go early (one park opens early each day to people who are staying in the park) and come back to your room and rest in the afte...

Thank you, MissLo, for being an advocate for your patient and her family. I am SURE they will remember your acts of kindness setting up the music and aromatherapy much longer than the "meds" that the nurse gave their Mama. And remember: Speak your m...

I saw the documentary on this topic on Discovery Health last night. Apparently, one gal was on BC pills and took an antibiotic which decreased the effectiveness of the pill and she became pregnant. She continued to have scanty, irregular "periods" ...

As much as I agree that The Joint Commission often goes overboard with their recommendations and requirements, we can't blame this one on them. This comes from CMS (Medicare) who is basing our reimbursement on (among other things) Patient Satisfact...

Michelle, I can understand wanting to smell wonderful, but when I was recently hospitalized, the nurses who wore/used scented products made my nausea so much worse that I hated it when they came in my room. Also at our hospital we are only allowed ...

I have heard about all kinds of pages to alert staff that The Joint Commission is in the building, but never Code J! What we do is announce the following overhead - "Attention, please join in welcoming The Joint Commission Surveyors to our hospital...

At our hospital every department, every shift has "embedded spies" who monitor hand hygiene and report offenders to the Infection Control Coordinator. The offenders are counseled as needed! Seems to work except for the physicians even though they g...

Hey I also have diabetes for 22 years and wear an insulin pump (for about 13 years.) I worked clinical in Women's Services up until about 11 years ago and finally had to get a desk job (Quality Management). I had problems getting the time to check...

Jrring.. I am so sorry that your baby died. One thing I have learned caring for families who have experienced the death of a baby is that each person handles grief differently. A dear friend lost a beautiful baby girl at 34 weeks with anencephaly a...

Thanks for your comment Criss. About the word "deformed", doesn't it exactly describe my extremities? According to my medical dictionary, it means- misshapen, distorted, malformed, distorted. And I'm not ashamed of that. It's ignorance and misuse...