zenman

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    "Lean" Health Care????

    zenman replied to willie03's topic in General Nursing

    This has been around the business world since Edwards Deming went to Japan after WWII and taught them that they could in fact beat the socks off
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    What do you wear at work...?

    zenman replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    I alternate between scrubs and shorts and a
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    Np in America

    zenman replied to seraph's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Nice to meet you also. Where are you at in
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    Holistic nursing evidence based

    zenman replied to saludable's topic in Holistic

    It would take a long time for one of us to post these studies (thousands of them), many of which are in another language. You are in for a lot of searching. However, Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. and...
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    Np in America

    zenman replied to seraph's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Siri, you get a prize for being so helpful to people!! I'll be in Hawaii tomorrow but will be leaving the day you come in. Yes, there are sharks there and they do
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    Holistic scope NP--dream or possibility?

    zenman replied to golden-hair's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You bring up wanting to be able to prescribe a little medicine in conjunction with your practice. Have you considered why that is an important factor for
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    PLEASE HELP!!! so embarassed about sweating!

    zenman replied to Bumashes's topic in General Nursing

    If nothing else works, go see your local Oriental Medicine
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    How many miles do you drive to work each day?

    zenman replied to nurse2b2007SC's topic in General Nursing

    I walk two
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Just saw a spot on CNN where some MIT researchers found that trees have energy. They stuck nails into trees and hooked up a light and it came on. I guess those crazy new age tree huggers had...
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    No, but the World Health Organization showed that it basically is a
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Actually I look very deeply into every possible thing that might have an effect...that's why I consider
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    And have you thought about "why" people are desperate? They are "failures" of our healthcare system. And other professions provide sex therapy so that's a non issue here. Didn't I already provide...
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Of course antibiotics can be evaluated using cultures. I'm saying that when any research study involves human to human interaction...such as when the antiobiotics are actually given to a...
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I don't ever recall saying that TT is a
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt...
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    does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    zenman replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Eric, you are not even at the station! Since "consciousness" can't be measured, and since it is a factor in ALL studies,that means that even a double blind study has
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    advice for BSN student wanting to be an NP

    zenman replied to eastie79's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Both of these teach you skills that are needed as an NP...gathering the materials you need, manual dexterity, probing small cavities, completing a task, etc.,
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    Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    zenman replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I don't think this is the route the DNP is looking at but more of a clinical doctor like PTs and pharmDs. But I do need to go back and look at their plans
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    Are some environments beyond hope?

    zenman replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but sometimes it's fun to hang around a short while and ask them if they are aware that their behavior is consistent with that of an "a**hole!":D Or why they have optical
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    Main Problem In The Nursing Field?

    zenman replied to blueyesue's topic in General Nursing

    Any profession needs to have a solid foundational base so the entry level confusion needs to be cleared up before anything else,
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    Critique of Study: More BSNs equal better pt outcomes

    zenman replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    My tone is not condescending, but it is irritabilility that people have not yet at least learned to use google before posting. If that happppend more often, there would even be less posting of things...
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    Helicopractor Pylori???

    zenman replied to stephera's topic in General Nursing

    It's everywhere but there's no need to treat it unless there are
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    Critique of Study: More BSNs equal better pt outcomes

    zenman replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    Reality does hit hard sometimes. However, it's not an "off the cuff" remark but one born of experience and education. In your second paragraph you state exactly what you will learn in the educational...
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    Critique of Study: More BSNs equal better pt outcomes

    zenman replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    He's only partly right. A license/permit is a way to show that you have passed the minimum standards in order to protect the public. Compare it with the country I'm in. The medical labs here are a...
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    Critique of Study: More BSNs equal better pt outcomes

    zenman replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    Another point on paperwork. My wife, a teacher at the American International School in Dhaka tells me that students come back after a few years of college and tell the teachers that having to do the...