zcubed

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1. ARDS Walk-Please Come as Our Guests

   zcubed posted a topic in Michigan

   In that past, I have posted something in the Illinois forum about the ARDS Foundation annual walk at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden, this year on August 13, 2005 beginning at 7:30 AM. I wanted to post the info to other states where it would be ...

2. ARDS Walk-Please come as our guests

   zcubed posted a topic in Indiana

   In that past, I have posted something in the Illinois forum about the ARDS Foundation annual walk at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden, this year on August 13, 2005 beginning at 7:30 AM. I wanted to post the info to other states where it would be ...

3. ARDS Walk- Please come as our guests

   zcubed posted a topic in Wisconsin

   In that past, I have posted something in the Illinois forum about the ARDS Foundation annual walk at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden, this year on August 13, 2005 beginning at 7:30 AM. I wanted to post the info to other states where it would be ...

4. ARDS Walk-Please come as our guests

   zcubed posted a topic in Illinois

   Each year, I post something about the ARDS Foundation annual walk at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden, August 13, 2005 beginning at 7:30 AM. I wanted to post the info again, invite any nurses who might like to attend as our guests. This year we ...

5. What are your thoughts about this situation and hospital infections?

   zcubed replied to zcubed's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for the good wishes! My hemoglobin is holding steady at 11.6. The differential is normal. I will get there. I should have stated that the note was quite explicit. It mentioned Neutropenic, mask, gloves, and also stated that anyone who ha...

6. What are your thoughts about this situation and hospital infections?

   zcubed replied to zcubed's topic in General Nursing

   I understand different schools of thought. That was not my beef. My concern was that obviously my docs felt that these precautions were necessary, and in so doing, they posted a huge sign on my door. The fact that for whatever reason they thought ...

7. What are your thoughts about this situation and hospital infections?

   zcubed posted a topic in General Nursing

   Curious what you think... Last week I was hospitalized because my HGB was 5.5 (I felt like crap for the last six months, and pretty close to crap for a year) After repeat bood work, they said the neutrophils were 6. (in fact, almost everything was ...

8. Nurse who died of ARDS...

   zcubed posted a topic in MICU

   Paula Blonski's sister, Marybeth Monaghen, was a dedicated nurse, who did not work in an ICU and knew little about ARDS. In 1988, when she had to have an ovary removed, she looked at it as though it was minor surgery. But her wound would not heal.....

9. Illinois Nurses Invited (and Northern Wisc. Nurses, too)

   zcubed posted a topic in Illinois

   illinois nurses invited (and northern wisc. nurses, too) and in fact, anyone who might be in the area who would want to attend... the ards foundation is hosting it's second "march for miracles" benefit at the chicago botanic gardens. we would like t...

10. Please help... (felony and nursing?)

    zcubed replied to godin78's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what state you live in but like what was previously said, you can look it up online... for instance, in IL, if you look up the IDPR, and then look up RN, you find options to look from: http://www.ildpr.com/WHO/nurs.asp Then the relevan...

11. Migraines & nursing

    zcubed replied to NewEnglandRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a nurse, but I am a big time migraine sufferer. Have had them for over twenty years and have tried every preventative known to neurologists... I stopped for a while, but have been on Topomax 100 mg, for a while, and am not sure if it reall...

12. I find this disturbing

    zcubed replied to laurasc's topic in Ambulatory

    Maybe you could just print out that article... and leave it there for them to see, instead of getting into it with them. (unless it has already become an issue) It was written for doctors, and this doctor/lawyer... :stone can obviously comprehend ...

13. I find this disturbing

    zcubed replied to laurasc's topic in Ambulatory

    I am an attorney, but this is not my area of law; that being said, this did not sound proper or ethical to me as presented. I do know that a doctor can refuse to take on a patient, if for instant they might believe the patient was manipulative or dr...

14. Rotavirus question

    zcubed replied to zcubed's topic in Pediatric

    Thanks for all of the info... I guess I secretly wanted to know if you guys, nurses, would go... knowing what you know about this virus, given that you were planning a trip out of town! I just did not know enough about it. Someone to made my decis...

15. Rotavirus question

    zcubed replied to zcubed's topic in Pediatric

    I don't know that they will have the evening if they are outwardly sick, but I don't know how long this can be passed... it will be four days from now. Her kids are two, four (the one who got out of the hospital last evening) and seven. My kids ar...