SummitRN BSN, RN

ICU + Infection Prevention

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  1. I'm looking for input on program quality and reputation for Maryville University vs University of South Alabama vs Regis College (MA) for PMHNP MSN. These are all non-profits brick and mortar...
  2. This is a story about how I got accepted to a big name online for-profit: A phone number kept calling me incessantly for weeks... I finally answered, prepared for my usual, "I'm on the no-call list...
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    Incompatible IV Meds

    If you speed up your infusions to 999 then there is less time for them to react in the line after the Y
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    In another new grad contract thread in 2017, someone made the claim that training a new grad can "cost up to 60k" good to see it has only doubled in the intervening 4 years ? In that...
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    Predatory New Grad Contracts

    The only bigger joke than those made up numbers is that a profession full of critical thinkers keeps repeating them like the
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    Got The Vaccine! Share Your Experience

    3 days out, no issues other than craving for tasty human brains... Over 1.1 million vaccine doses given... no deaths. How many deaths for 1.1 million COVID cases, even in lower risk groups?...
  7. You would think this was a satire, but it's
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    Is PPE really helping?

    People take off their masks and hang out in the breakrooms People socialize outside of work People are imperfect at donning, doffing, and hand
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    Wilderness Medicine

    Some general rules about Wilderness Medicine as a field: 1. There is no money in it. 2. When there is money, it isn't much. 3. The more money there is, the less wilderness medicine is...
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    Contested a Doctor's Order Psych ?

    Severe endometriosis is poorly understood by most healthcare providers. Commonly it is misunderstood. Yea, it is inflammatory. Yes, NSAIDs are great for inflammatory conditions. But Endo...
  11. Wow. I'm not about to defend the general business idea of IV vitamin therapy without indication, but let's be honest: The average customer at these businesses is there for a hangover cure or similar....
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    Advocating for Nurses: Allow Nurses Their Own PPE

    Anyone ordering you to take a contaminated iso gown off over your head should be slapped in the face with a covid contaminated glove. That's the height of idiocy. There are better
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    Advocating for Nurses: Allow Nurses Their Own PPE

    If the hospital provides appropriate PPE, then they get to say what you use. If they don't... well that is a different story! But it is also remarkable the amount of ignorance about PPE. I've seen...
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    Are KN 95 masks as good as N 95 masks?

    There are a great deal of counterfeit KN95 and N95 coming from China. I saw one today. It was not even the equivalent of a surgical
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    PPE observers?

    We are using observers. Just contact or just airborne, it's not to hard to get it exactly right every time. Contact+Airborne+Eyepro the opportunity to self-contaminate during doffing goes up...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    The risk of nosocomial infection is high if you read the data coming from Italy and China. We have to protect healthcare workers AND patients. If you are caring for a COVID+ or PUI you should NOT...
  17. In the 1918 pandemic they closed all the nursing schools and medical schools and sent the students to the bedside to
  18. In the 1918 pandemic they closed all the nursing schools and medical schools and sent the students to the bedside to
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    In the 1918 pandemic they closed all the nursing schools and medical schools and sent the students to the bedside to
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    I quit

    Hey the world is going to need an epic crap ton of ICU nurses in about... right now. Tell them you want to transfer. Apply. My hospital system is reaching out to literally everyone to see if they...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    Your position is sympathetic, but eventually without rationing there will be no masks available for the high-risk procedures. This is only going to get worse. Look at Italy, but not late in the day...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    The study indicates aerosol and fomite viability of the virus after hours. THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    I think paper gowns are fine. It's coronavirus, not Ebola. DROPLET MASKS ARE NOT OPTIMAL You can use them if you don't have a respirator. That is the CDC message loud and clear. The COVID-19 virus IS...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    Indeed Barry discussed this in The Great Influenza
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    During the 1918 Flu Pandemic, they closed all nursing and medical school and sent the students to the bedside. And they were pulling anyone with any type of home care training to the wards. It wasn't...