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I like coming to this site beacuse it is so well organized. It's quick and easy to pick and choose the threads you want to read or not read. The icons that let you know if there is new postings or not. Brian Short does such a nice job of changing it ...

I loved the poem! How about The Healing Touch? or The Power to Heal? The Stranger?

May the Lord comfort and strengthen you and your family during this difficult time

I began looking at taking care of the dying person as a blessing when I was working at a convent for retired nuns. When someone was dying there was always other nuns at bedside singing, praying and holding their hand to celebrate the entry into etern...

I'll second the New Balance crosstrainers. I have a pair for work and a pair for everyday! J.C. Penny Total Support Hose work well too.

What a great idea! I've read about 10 of the "Chicken Soup" books myself and would love to see one for health care workers. If you like reading books like that another series is the "Small Miracle" books.

How about information specialist? Education connoisseur? Developmental consultant? You could just have fun with it!

A visiting psychiatrist from India was at rounds one morning when he wrote the following in the patient's note, "He is clearly psychotic this morning. He states he has a frog in his throat."

I live in an area where you have the choice of a community college or a university. Some choose the community college due to cost. Others choose the university because the percentage of students that finish the course is actually higher. The communi...

GWB is not the world's most healthcare-conscious candidate, but his rival has indicated that he is willing to do to health care what has already been done to everything else the government touches: ruin it. Anyone else out there drowning in gov't-man...

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Hi oramar Just wondering if the site you are searching for is http://pub16ezboard.com/nursingboard. posted Oct. 8th by NikkiN It looks like a brand new site similar to this one. No one has posted anything yet though.

I agree that the nursing care plan, when used properly generates continuity of care and benefits both the care giver and the cleint to reach or maintain optimal health and function. Where else in the chart can you fing everything you need to know abo...

Another approach is to find out the underlaying reason for the behavior. Does the patinet act this way all the time or is it a new behavior. Is he in pain, hungry fear of falling during a transfer or just impatient? If he is just plain impatient then...

A good book is Geriatric Nursing Care Plans. by Marie Jaffee, RN, MS. New Edition. I have another one at work I can get the name and author for you. Do you have computerized care plans? When I was doing them, I used those and a care plan book for b...

Congratulations and best of luck on your new job! I am a former MDS coordinator. The best advice I can offer is to use the resources available to help fill out the MDS accurately. I can't remember the exact name of the book that I called my "blue bi...

jimbob We use BIRP charting in our geropsychiatric unit. In a quick summary. B Behavior. The pts behavior including subjective and objective data, mood and affect. I Intervention. The nurses intervention to the behavior. R Response. The pts res...

Another nurse poem The author is unknown Long before you entered nursing The lord had played His part, Planting seeds of love and kindness In the portals of your heart. For it's clear you've been gifted With a sympathetic ear, And blessed from the be...

You didn't say what your current format was. We use B.I.R.P. charting in our progress notes. Behavior. Intervention. Response. Plan. All displines (nsg, phyciatrist, dietary, social worker and therapies) use same notes and this seems to flow well an...

I have worked both 8s and12s. I also prefer the 12 s. I agree with ratchit that it does facilitate continuity between shifts and it also decreases animosity, because there is only two shifts instead of three. You do get to spend more time at the beds...

Short staffing. High staff turnover. Breakdown in communication between shifts and departments. Increasing number of acutely ill residents. Declining work ethics.

I pay $5.10 every two weeks for my disability insurance. The hospital I'm employed at pays the rest. Plan will pay 60% of monthly earnins up to %5000.00! (not sure who makes that much). My previous employer paid all the disabililty insurance prem...

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but you might consider one on communication, because in order to provide care you first need to communicate. For example to do a head to toe assesment you will communicate differently with a young chi...

A friend of mine is a DON in a long term care facility and is looking for a policy and procedure on cleaning razors. What do you do in other facilities?

My question is for Sharon. You said it was normal to need a booster for HEP B after 10 years, but is it normal for the blood work to be negative as mine was? They did not seem concerned, they are just redoing the blood work in a month. I completed th...