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Wow. I am sorry. Been so busy that I never got back on until now. PM me and I'll answer your questions. I am really loving this role. A client got into some trouble last September with a federal regulatory agency that I do not cover. But they we...

I went to the Critical Care Nurses annual conference (AACN NTI) last week in Houston. There the COOLEST thing exhibited by LC Technologies! There was an eye-operated communication device called the Eyegaze Edge that really works in the hospital so pa...

I know! Really! One nurse before me tried it and started crying! She said she recently took car of a colleague with ascending paralysis (but not GBS?) Anyway, they spent an agonizing one and a half hours trying to figure out what she was trying to...

Locked in syndrome, from stroke, TBI, ALS, encephalitis, or just intubation with paralysis or limb trauma was always a communication challenge. Now, after having it myself for a few days from an arbovirus encephalitis, the concern really hit home. ...

Thank you for your insights, CCRN2BE! I am considering writing an article for a nursing journal and would like to use your comments. Thank you. Anybody else have issues, concerns, comments about this?

I, an RN, owned a successful DME company, brought it successful, then sold it. Now, I contract (independently) to an accreditation company and team-lead on surveys. Travel is fun and interesting. I do independent other consulting on the side. Throug...

Hi. A review of the posts here shows that it is best to not disclose this issue as long as possible. And between flares, most of us have symptoms easy enough to hide. But we deal with similar issues: fear of disclosure, fear of being fired, fear ...

HM2Viking RN wrote: "Oh how true.....ADD is both a blessing and a curse.....It is a blessing because as an individual I can think outside of the box..." I love this! ADD is a blessing and my entire contingent of relatives are so creative due to ...

You moved and got your family settled in the new area. Now you are ready to start your career. That is it. Do not disclose any more. The hospitals know they will spend a lot of money orienting new grads. It is an investment for them. They do n...

Strikert, That is a great idea! I was diagnosed this year with Multiple Sclerosis. I got a new job working with out-patient pre-cardiac cath patients explaining the process, taking pre-admit labs, ECGs, patient teaching, etc. I am super nice (war...

Check into your state. They are always looking for facility surveyors because they pay so poorly, but the work is very easy. Your only hurdle will be dealing with the boredom.

Thank you for asking us what we think! I am passionately against nurse abuse. There should be no tolerance for it. But that has to be balanced with evaluating and managing individual needs. Patients, like all humans are dynamic creatures with changin...

My friend read this great book and gave it to me to read it. It s great! And it is by a fellow nurse too. She got it on Amazon. It takes place at a children's hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. It is called No Other Medicine by Gail G. Hallas, RN.

I stole this from the Amazon site. This is a critique of it... Michael Sutherland, an attorney afflicted with a childhood disease and his friend, Dr. Ross Manchester, foster Dad to an abandoned infant, join forces to confront what is wrong with the ...

Kudos for your pro-active ways. You must be awesome at QA! Your colleague goes on and on about her stance? Tell her you value her input, just ask her to put her rationales in writing instead of verbalizing so that you can study the details. Once s...

Thank you everyone. I appreciate all your comments. I know my clothes are clean when I enter work, but after? I can almost feel the MRSA, C-diff, pseudamonas, etc. How often do I see residents with their hands near their mouths and noses, then th...

What is your policy on staff sitting on resident's beds? Balancing infection control issues and resident dignity can be difficult. When you are speaking with a resident, and don't want to look down on them and no chair is available, does your facil...

Oh, my heart aches for the poor staff! Alll of them! To protect the nurses as well as the facility, I agree with my colleagues that this guy needs a psych eval. If everything posted here has been documented, it should not be so much a worry about...

Sometimes I wish I could give more than one kudo to a post!

Oh that is funny.

These are great! Yes, crazy, but fun. #10 is my favorite. The answer is 1.

Morte, Yeah, but in real life, stuff keeps on happening. That's why the standard. And those silly pathogens are so darn small and difficult to see if there is contamination- so to be on the safe side, well, back to those standards.

Exactly!

S.C.O.R.E. and SBA were very helpful to me.

Oh, what we can learn from our patients. While the risk (prion gelatin contaminant) is small, it does exist. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10076518 Detection methods of possible prion contaminants in collagen and gelatin and Biological Safe...