ozoneranger

ozoneranger

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  1. Covid Vaccine

    https://www.CDC.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf Keep in mind that this is only the first dose and Moderna's vaccine had a higher rate of AE's in its trials. As of Dec 18, the CDC wa...
  2. Unvaccinated Boy in Oregon gets Tetanus

    This case was a 6-year-old child who lived on a farm, and whose parents stitched up a forehead gash at home and brought him to the hospital a week later presenting with symptoms of lockjaw. After a 6-week stay at the hospital, he fully recovered. -I...
  3. The flu shot making people sick

    From the CDC: CDC cracks down on communications with reporters - Axios And this: Flu Vaccination & Possible Safety Signal Error processing SSI file Frank DeStefano? He was one of the CDC scientists who destroyed data on the 2004 MMR/autism link....
  4. The flu shot making people sick

    Unless you realize that everyone with the flu is given antivirals & antivirals make people nauseous.
  5. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    Ponder this. The CDC owns a patent on this variant of Ebola, and any other viral variant within 30% of this specific genomic sequence. http://www.google.com/patents/CA2741523A1?cl=en Patent holders for intellectual property waltz from industry to ...
  6. Blanking out is serious stuff. You could be having TIA's also called mini strokes, it's time to call in the big guns & see a neurologist. You have to take care of you first. Are you driving a car? If so, stop. The hazard to yourself & other...
  7. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    I once worked for a man named Albert Herbert....we called him Bert Bert. Fortunately he was a bit of a clown & took the ribbing well.
  8. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    I know a man named James James. Whenever he's introduced to someone he says "my mom stutters" implying she stuttered when applying for his birth certificate.
  9. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Along the same line, when I was a kid our cleaning lady's name was Vaseline Love. Who does that to their kid?
  10. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Dr. Head, neurologist Dr. Harold Bush ob/gyn (Harry Bush) delivered my first child. Dr. Wiener, urologist (snip-snipped my husband after our last child) We used to kid him about his name, he'd correct us...."it's Y--ner...not We-ner." ...
  11. I rather liked the way this fellow handled the situation. Herbert A. Millington Chair - Search Committee 412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University College Hill, MA 34109 Dear Professor Millington, Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful c...
  12. Being forced to work while sick

    In one facility where I worked they hired a director to our unit who told us to" take tylenol & come on in." I asked her if tylenol had some magic power I wasn't aware of? Does tylenol actually nullify the spread of infectious disease AND reduce...
  13. Todays Most annoying pt award goes to....

    Does any of this look familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m64cy1MMPg
  14. Totally Gross! Had to share...

    I'd pay to find the masochistic a-hole who invented the faucet used to clean bed pans in patient rooms. Ours were always similar to shower heads, with really unpredictable water pressure. Getting caught in the blow-back when the pressure increased b...
  15. Agrhaaaa........I feel your pain. You came soooo close to getting him out of your hair......and bam.....!! That stinks. We had a similar situation in a clinic a few years ago. This man was explosive. There was no limit to his vile, hate filled, and ...
  16. Totally Gross! Had to share...

    Sweet Jesus, this brings back memories. The patient who, during a normal conversation, took my hand and smeared a huge bugger on my arm. The patient who decided he wanted to go home...NOW...at 3 am, in the nude, stabbed me in the ear with a banana. Y...
  17. why do doctors order more vitamin d tests than anything?

    The factors that affect UV radiation exposure and research to date on the amount of sun exposure needed to maintain adequate vitamin D levels make it difficult to provide general guidelines. Most people meet their vitamin D needs through exposure to ...
  18. Peer Evals

    I worked on a unit where we did peer evaluations. The CNA's were allowed to evaluate the nurses, so...if you got on the bad side of a CNA...they'd all sit down in the conference room with their eval's & gang up on you. Since the eval's were anon....
  19. Please help!!! Student looking for a job in Texas

    I worked as a ward secretary while I was in school. I went on to work for the same facility after I graduated & already knew how to admit/dc a patient in the computer system, obtain supplies, that sort of thing. I was light years ahead of the oth...
  20. Let me get this straight. She failed to perform a dressing change which was scheduled to be done during her shift. She realized her error....called you & asked you to do what she should have done 10 or 12 hours ago. You forgot to help her out &am...
  21. Oh man, Hit, kicked, punched, pinched, grabbed, groped, propositioned, scratched, peed on, poo flung at my head.....you name it. While I was working in an acute in patient rehab, a young man who'd come out of a wreck paralyzed from the waist down d...
  22. Do you go to work when you have fever/cold?

    If we had a fever, we were told to take 2 tylenol & come on in. (cause tylenol's magic like that). I worked a baylor weekend contract for several years in an acute in patient rehab facility. One afternoon I was grilling chicken & drinking bee...
  23. is rape reportable?

    The law varies from state to state, special circumstances may apply, depending on the age of the victim or the perp. Your best bet is to consult risk mgmt.
  24. just need to vent

    Amen to that.
  25. is rape reportable?

    Oh, but he did. Public drunkenness is a crime, and he was underage to boot. I don't know if law enforcement addressed the issue or not. I just know we were told to keep his confidence from our end of the ordeal.