herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nursing Practice & Patient Advocacy Alert: Treatment of Patients with Ebola
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You still can to register and listen live to a National Nurse's United Conference on Ebola and Hospital Preparedness. It just started.
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    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    herring_RN replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Bonnie Castillo RN Director of NNU's Registered Nurse Response Network discusses Ebola preparedness in U.S.
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    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    herring_RN replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You have ten minutes to register and listen live to a National Nurse's United Conference on Ebola and Hospital Preparedness.
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If we had a Surgeon General I wonder what He or She would do? Now there is a department without a leader. Surgeon General |
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hospitals need to pay attention to STOP ignoring nurses concerns. Those nurses must not be afraid to tell the truth o the CDC or other a regulatory agency. Texas has an excellent nurse whistle-blower...
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    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    herring_RN replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    National Nurses Union rallies in Oakland after Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola OAKLAND -- They stood together in bright red T-shirts, holding placards and signs. They stood together in sorrow, and...
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    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    herring_RN replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nurses Reject 'Scapegoat' Accusations After CDC Head Blames 'Protocol Breach' for Dallas Nurse Infection of Ebola Nurses and other healthcare experts have rejected the accusation by Centers for...
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    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    herring_RN replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Debra Burger - President of the California Nurses Association - on
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    Will the Texas ED RN become a scapegoat in the Ebola patient discharge?

    herring_RN replied to preddish's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Nurses Reject 'Scapegoat' Accusations After CDC Head Blames 'Protocol Breach' for Dallas Nurse Infection of Ebola Nurses and other healthcare experts have rejected the accusation by Centers for...
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nurses Reject 'Scapegoat' Accusations After CDC Head Blames 'Protocol Breach' for Dallas Nurse Infection of Ebola Nurses and other healthcare experts have rejected the accusation by Centers for...
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was last checked off on the removing all personal protective equipment in 1983 when I worked on a AIDS unit. My competence is NOT current. I would need practice to safely protect others and myself...
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Learning to utilize a new protocol requires practice, not just an on line class, and certainly not telling staff to go to the CDC site. I wonder how that texas hospital "trained" their
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    U.S. nurses say they are unprepared to handle Ebola patients Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their...
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: World Health
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    Will the Texas ED RN become a scapegoat in the Ebola patient discharge?

    herring_RN replied to preddish's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    U.S. nurses say they are unprepared to handle Ebola patients Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital...
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    Nursing & Ebola Surveillance

    herring_RN replied to RNMA15's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think OUR role as nurses is to find out whether our employer has an emergency disaster plan. Then we need to ensure all staff are educated on the plan. We need to educate ourselves so we can educate...
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    Ebola in Texas

    herring_RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    RN Survey Says Hospitals Fall Far Short in Emergency Planning as First Ebola Case Reported in the U.S. In the wake of the first confirmed case of a patient in the U.S. who has been infected with the...
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    Nurse Staffing Costs

    herring_RN replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Ensuring sufficient nurses at all times is cost effective. The goal should not be to cut nursing staff. It should be to provide the nursing care that is the reason for a hospital to exist without...
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    herring_RN replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I think that a lawyer would know that statutes and regulations are not simply "semantics". "Quote from Herring_RN Here are selected parts of CMS Federal regulations required for all hospitals...
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    Nurse Patient Ratio

    herring_RN replied to lolaimation's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    An observational study of nurse staffing ratios and hospital readmission among children admitted for common conditions BMJ Quality and Safety in Healthcare online May 2013 Adding just one child to a...
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    Understaffed Surgical Unit

    herring_RN replied to rnz17's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You can keep a diary. Each and every shift. Whenever staffing is insufficient tell a manager or supervisor. Write who you told and what you said in the diary. If there is a sentinel event or error put...
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    herring_RN replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Nurses poll as the most honest and ethical profession in the United States. http://www.gallup.com/poll/1654/Honesty-Ethics-Professions.aspx A person has a right to his or her opinion regarding...
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    Does/Can an RN give anesthetics before procedures such as skin biopsy, laser surgery,

    herring_RN replied to 50kn's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    In my state the only RNs who may administer local anesthesia are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. Here is a discipline with termination or suspension of a license. One of the accusations is...
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    herring_RN replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    So far no answer to why else other than nursing care a person would need to be admitted to a hospital. Each and every person wirking in a hospital has an important function. Housekeeping is essential...