pickledpepperRN

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  1. patient nurse ratio 4:1 in California next year?

    I don't think Louisiana has nurse to patient ratios
  2. patient nurse ratio 4:1 in California next year?

    Yes. Starting January 1, 2008 the ratio will four or fewer patients per nurse in Telemetry and speacalty care units. Medical- surgical will remain 1:5 or fewer day and night. I think four is much...
  3. shootings and mental health

    The fact is that Martha Mitchell was wrongly labeled mentally ill because she told reporters that her husband, Attorney General John Mitchell, and the Nixon administration were violating the law. I...
  4. Regarding people who are diagnosed as being a threat to themselves and/or others what can be done? There is a thread about the conflict between freedom from false imprisonment and protecting people...
  5. Ohio Nurse Staffing Laws - Need Help!!!

    http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3727 I looked for a staffing section but can't find it. Maybe the Board of Nursing can answer
  6. Diabetis as 6th vital signs

    I think it is illogical to call pain a vital sign. Vital signs are measurable data. Pain requires a complex assessment including the analysis and synthasis of data and observation of the patient....
  7. I think this is great. I ordered mine. Please only sign if you mean it. Please sign if you are willing to to unite in a program of action, sharing information and solutions to resolve problems and...
  8. Nurses' Unions

    right! here in california the ena led the lobbying for the motorcycle law. cna followed. the ena also testified at hearings on the ratio regulations. cna got the law and the ena got the minimum ratios...
  9. Pain Scores Effective or not

    Pain assessment requires the ART of nursing. A nurse will analize and synthasize vital signs, posture, facial expression, and statements made by the patient and family. Using only a pain scale is not...
  10. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee leads a protest action in Chicago against hospital industry push to get the National Labor Relations Board to re-define direct...
  11. Hi I am a new member today

    Please don't give up! You graduated from nursing school. That is a BIG accomplishment. Now you need to learn how to take this difficult test. Some of the finest nurses I work with didn't pass the...
  12. Allnurses Celebrate!

    Just last week I cared for a heavy patient who needed the head of the bed elevated. About every hour of our 12 hour night my co workers, CNA, RN, RT, and once the pharmacy tech helped reposition and...
  13. Patient Care Tech and CNA?

    In California there is no legal definition of a 'patient care tech'. I prefer working with a certified nursing assistant. They have a scope of practice, validated competence in required tasks such as...
  14. Not specifically about specialties but I think a useful article. I think you have to subscribe to one of the Biz journals to access it. I think you get the gist of it
  15. shootings and mental health

    By Richard Spencer in Beijing and Toby Harnden in Blacksburg Last Updated: 2:12am BST 21/04/2007 Cho Seung-hui was diagnosed as autistic after he arrived in America from his native South Korea,...
  16. Fractured Pubic Symphysis when pushing?!

    My uncle was born at home with a doctor in 1918. He weighed 14 pounds! Grandma was probably diabetic then because she was eating a lot and not gaining enough weight (not so long after was diagnosed...
  17. Nurses Need to Learn the Art of Delegation

    If I remember this is not substantially changed. It is good but the real problem is with uncertified and unlicensed personnel whose competency the RN is not certain of. When I float at my hospital I...
  18. I think it is very important to remember our history. Nurses have accomplished so much. The Red Cross has a different function in disasters now. Less nursing but their work is so very important. I am...
  19. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Thank you. I just sent it to two people. One my friend and one in the Oakland office, secretary for the Joint Nursing Practice commission. We have worked well with AFSCME at UCLA and I read about a...
  20. In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South

    My daughter went to a nurse practitioner. This NP spent 45 minutes with her showing her charts, explaining that her BP was already elevated while only in her 30s. She would probably become diabetic...
  21. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007 Nation Approves First H5N1 Vaccine for People The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved the nation’s first vaccine for people against the potentially fatal...
  22. Healthiest US States

    Texas Hospitals Urge State Leaders to Help Make Health Insurance More Affordable, Accessible Friday April 20, 11:01 am ET Gov. Perry Proclaims April 23-29 Cover the Uninsured Week in Texas AUSTIN,...
  23. I'm a Medications Menace

    Medications for forty patients is a BIG job. It was almost too much for me on a 27 bed unit years ago when I was LVN med nurse. And we had a good system. Sometimes doctors would take a chart, write an...
  24. shootings and mental health

    Thank you for this! It seems CARING for all people still needs advancement. We still have a long way to go since the reforms of Dorothea Dix in the early 18 hundreds:...
  25. Real People Denied Healthcare

    I think it is to show the real people to remind us this is not only an intellectual discussion. That it is not only unemployed addicts who are denied healthcare. People with insurance are also denied...