Baloney Amputation BSN, LPN, RN

I was told long ago by a dermatologist that people with eczema had lots more fine lines on their palms than the palms belonging to those without eczema. The reason wasn't known at that time by the dermatologist, but I've found it to be true.

I am exactly the same way! I assume the educator in the OP's situation took a fair amount of time researching material for the inservice, which probably included coming across the expanded version of the term HIPAA. Why is it so difficult for presum...

I believe the OP was posting about how ridiculous it is that her healthcare-related in-service documents and quiz said "HIPPA" instead of "HIPAA." I agree wholeheartedly with her.

Argh! The "Ads by Google" on my page say "HIPPA" whenever I visit this thread! It hurts my eyes. :)

If I were you, I think I'd take a good look at that paper that you supposedly signed...

How on earth would your job enforce that?!?

If a child is asthmatic, for example, and forced to live with cigarette smoke, this is much more immediate and concerning than being fat. Hands down. Being fat doesn't hinder breathing in quite the same way that an acute asthma attack does.

My dad found out fairly recently that he has alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, many years after he stopped smoking, so his few years of smoking did much more lung damage than it normally would to a normal person's lungs. I am lucky I don't have it (it...

I had dozens of hospitalizations due to asthma attacks while my dad was smoking in the house when I was a child. Once he quit smoking and went to chewing tobacco, my hospitalizations for asthma attacks went down sharply. I don't think outlawing smok...

That is not true. You can get lung cancer without ever smoking and you can get cirrhosis as a nondrinker. You knew that, right?

You can harp on your coworkers all you want about their English, but your post quoted here doesn't exactly command a lot of respect from those of us who know how to spell and properly use plural nouns.

Yes, random family member/friend/acquaintance, my possession of a nursing license DOES mean I want to hear about your bowel problems.

My husband has it. Anyone who thinks it's not a real disease needs to hang out with him when he's having real issues with it. It's awful, and he is a tough cookie. A PM&R doctor and a rheumatologist both diagnosed him with it. The rheumatologist ...

You're only overcharting if you document the flavor.

I'm trying to understand...the charge nurse told you could not leave, but the other nurses covered for you while you left anyway?

What's that mean? I know what "rev them up" means, but what is she specifically doing?

Unfortunately I don't have that option to let the doc hear the dictation. I work for a large national company with my accounts being a few states away from me. :)

At least y'all can holler at the doc or your coworkers. Since my pay is dependent on how fast I can understand what a doc is saying, I am less than thrilled the many, many, many times I can only hear the staff in the background talking about their ki...

Stores around here have wipes located near the carts, though I'd say that if I saw all that stuff on the cart handle, you can bet that I'd pass it up and just use a different cart with a less crusty handle.

I don't THINK I said that, but then again, I don't "train" my family to pander to any sort of neurosis, either.

LOL with a snort!

You know, these pain in the butt conditions of atopy and allergic asthma that I've had my whole life are much less common in developing countries or in settings where there are lots of germs present (like families with lots of kids). The hygiene hypo...

I'm much more appalled when the caregiver of the baby fusses and yells at the baby to sit still when all the baby wants to do is be a normal baby and crawl around.

I ate dirt as a kid. I still use the 5-second rule. Getting out of scrubs ASAP and showering right after work was only urgent to me when I had stuff on my scrubs that wasn't supposed to be there or when the facility in which I worked had some sort ...

It'll be darned nice that with the general paucity of jobs available for the picking, the holder of the health insurance for the family will not be limited to only jobs that already provide health insurance. Not terribly long ago when my hubby was in...