LydiaNN

Happily semi-retired; excited for the whole whammy

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    Fired from job

    LydiaNN replied to goingnuts's topic in General Nursing

    It may be a written provision of peer review that she has to let them know a week ahead of time, though. Even though she no longer works for them, if she wants to avail herself of peer review, she...
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    Organ Donation and Homosexuals

    LydiaNN replied to mysticalwaters1's topic in General Nursing

    It has to go beyond that, though, to include the fact that virii are so easily spread due by this particular activity. It isn't that the behavior causes the virus, it just makes it easier to
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    Organ Donation and Homosexuals

    LydiaNN replied to mysticalwaters1's topic in General Nursing

    There was an episode on ER once, I believe it related to a liver transplant. An AIDS patient died and had an HIV+ friend who needed a liver. I believe it was Carter who okayed the transplant. It...
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    Fired from job

    LydiaNN replied to goingnuts's topic in General Nursing

    In one sense, it will be ''her word against your's'' in that there isn't any physical evidence to back up her charges against you. Having said that, though, I really encourage you to at least consult...
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    Is Everybody Moving to California?

    LydiaNN replied to Sheri257's topic in California Nursing

    Secret prisons are being built here, you say? Why not ask the person who told you about them who they are intended to
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    To cap or not to cap!

    LydiaNN replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

    I have a couple problems with caps, and they're primarily pragmatic. First, they do tend to catch on curtains. Plus, those of us who have big heads would have a horrible time trying to get them to...
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    To cap or not to cap!

    LydiaNN replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

    Edited, didn't see the text after the rolling
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    To cap or not to cap!

    LydiaNN replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

    I think that there is compromise to be found by having those who wish to wear the cap on the head do so and those who don't, to hold it in the photo like the symbol that it is... in reality, very very...
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    Questions re:Bible passage and nursing

    LydiaNN replied to hopecandles's topic in General Nursing

    It says to me faith alone isn't enough and works alone isn't
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    The Today Show

    LydiaNN replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    Do dead horses belong anywhere,
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    Is Everybody Moving to California?

    LydiaNN replied to Sheri257's topic in California Nursing

    So, tell us, do you ever dream of moving to
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    Is Everybody Moving to California?

    LydiaNN replied to Sheri257's topic in California Nursing

    Yeah... but you have to live in St. Louis. I get to live near San Diego. It is a very reasonable tradeoff (and btw, my mortgage is nowhere near $5000- not anywhere near half of that, even). If...
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    The Today Show

    LydiaNN replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I consider scrubs God's gift to nurses... I am old enough to have worn white and I hated it. The pants made me look like the Sta-Puf Marshallow Man and it was uncomfortable to work in the...
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    Is Everybody Moving to California?

    LydiaNN replied to Sheri257's topic in California Nursing

    Interesting only in that it makes one wonder what your professor's agenda may have been. Claiming that the increased rate of abortions are responsible for the decreased rate of crime supposes that...
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    Starvation: A good thing when concerning the Obese.

    LydiaNN replied to xt1's topic in General Nursing

    I am all for education and enlightment, but again, I do find the wording of the original question, as well as the claim to have already done some research, curious. What research doesn't recognize...
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    Starvation: A good thing when concerning the Obese.

    LydiaNN replied to xt1's topic in General Nursing

    Um...
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    Starvation: A good thing when concerning the Obese.

    LydiaNN replied to xt1's topic in General Nursing

    I think the wording of the question is especially telling... s/he says ''I have yet to see a reason why an obese person would not want to just fast their way down to a healthy body fat percentage''....
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    Starvation: A good thing when concerning the Obese.

    LydiaNN replied to xt1's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that in the earliest stages of research you'd have read that starvation is counterproductive. The body is programmed to conserve stores of body fat to guard against starving to death....
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    Is Everybody Moving to California?

    LydiaNN replied to Sheri257's topic in California Nursing

    I moved to CA after leaving PA for the same reasons as you (I still can't decide if I hated summer or winter weather more!), figuring I'd try it and if I didn't like it, I'd try something else. That...
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    B/F educators who aren't L/Cs?

    LydiaNN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I never realized that a hospital would use a breastfeeding educator who wasn't a certified l/c, but I was reading over the minutes of a meeting that I missed this month and there are actually a couple...
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    CDC recommends HIV testing for 13-64 yr olds

    LydiaNN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I wonder how they happened to settle at stopping the tests at age 65. God forbid a 13 year old should be found positive, but I'm sure it happens. We had a situation at work a couple years ago, a...
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    The Today Show

    LydiaNN replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, and here we've been all along thinking the keys to preventing medical errors were things like safe ratios, adequate training and supervision, staffing levels that ensure no one is forced to come...
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    'Unhealthy' nurses...bad examples?

    LydiaNN replied to fifi2323's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't discrimination to fire someone that can't perform key elements of a job. For this reason, people who are overweight have never been high fashion models (plus size models notwithstanding)....
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    Sick but insured? Think again!

    LydiaNN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Lawsuits accuse insurance companies of retroactively dumping families that rack up large bills. Firms defend their policies, but the state is investigating. By Lisa Girion, Times Staff Writer...
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    'Unhealthy' nurses...bad examples?

    LydiaNN replied to fifi2323's topic in General Nursing

    My husband was hospitalized for cardiac s/s and I couldn't believe what they brought him for dinner. Well, actually I have no idea what it was, but it was covered in gelatinous glop and could not...