tewdles RN

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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    and about the payments...couldn't agree more...the primary people making big bucks in the health system are the people providing the least amount (if any) actual care to patients. The boat is upside...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    well, we are all paying for it now...and it costs us 17% of our GDP. there are better, more efficient ways to provide necessary health care to the citizens of this country. there is no "free"
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    Help! having second thoughts and feel sad

    tewdles replied to amzyRN's topic in Nursing Career

    I recently moved 4 thousand miles from my entire support system for a job. It was the first time in more than 50 years that I had lived alone. I missed my husband of 30+ years and my children and my...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You and I agree on a number of things. Yes we do have issues with teen pregnancies, obesity, substance abuse, etc. Where we differ is in consideration of the ACA. I believe that the ACA helps to...
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    Vita; signs and infections...

    tewdles replied to MomRN0913's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    How often VS are measured is often a combination of the practice expectations of the agency, the medical director, and the RN. They can be a useful measurement when describing changes in patient...
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    The Unwritten Laws Nurse Managers Live By

    tewdles replied to rntj's topic in Nurse Management

    magnet manager
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    The Unwritten Laws Nurse Managers Live By

    tewdles replied to rntj's topic in Nurse Management

    Ouch...hurtful to hear that nurses believe that all nursing management might behave that way. I certainly have experienced some bad managers myself, but over the years have had more good nurse...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So, we want people to have personal responsibility, but we don't want the government to encourage that with a tax or penalty? How do we "promote" personal responsibility then? Or do we simply identify...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This program is promoting personal responsibility...you must have insurance to pay for your health needs or pay a penalty
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There will always be people that are believed to be too fat, or too addicted, or too stupid to be saved from themselves. And there will always be members of our society that believe that society and...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Given that 20000+ people die in the US each year because they do not have access to health insurance and therefore adequate care, it is hard for me to imagine that it will cause problems worse than...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    mass-care » ma reform and the free care pool[color=#1122cc]reforming and restructuring the hospital indigent care new york.... all states have one.....these exist before obama care. my point about...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    See your post #87. I cant copy and paste formsome reason, but you posted that 80 year are not "entitled" yada,myada, yada. And i question what entitlement has to do with it, if they are healthy and if...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I said that? Really?, cuz that certainly wouldn't fit with my personal and professional opinion of health care, so I cannot imagine that I posted anything remotely like that. I, actually, don't think...
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    why would you want to limit access to oral contraceptives within a health insurance
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    Bowel Regimen

    tewdles replied to MomRN0913's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    warm prune juice with MOM? colace
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    Obama health care law upheld.

    tewdles replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hopefully, we will see improvements in health outcomes for US citizens as we continue on the path of reform. The objective of reform is not to increase profits or payments, the objective is to...
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    Obamacare Survives, Supreme Court Rescues 'Big Health'

    tewdles replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Indeed, the middle class is struggling and fighting against extinction. What they cannot afford is health insurance outside of this provision or a health encounter in our expensive system without...
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    What are your thoughts on patients who request no male nurses taking care of them?

    tewdles replied to Mike A. Fungin RN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Ok...so I will admit that there were only 3 or 4 responses that do not honor the request of the patient over the inconvenience or feelings of the professional. Having said that, even just a few...
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    A Dying Persons Tear

    tewdles replied to ws582's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I don't have any idea why they might have a tear... If I have done my job well, then I suspect that they are not in pain (spiritual, emotional, or physical) otherwise I would be expecting other...
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    Have you ever cried when a Pt died

    tewdles replied to Topaz7's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    nerdtonurse? made a good point about nurses and grief. In hospice we recognize that the staff experience cummulative grief and try to provide good outlets for them to process the losses and "refill...
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    What are your thoughts on patients who request no male nurses taking care of them?

    tewdles replied to Mike A. Fungin RN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Are there other "old" nurses reading this that are concerned about the number of responses that put the feelings and needs of the health professional before the feelings and needs of the patient on...
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    Living "weeks to months" with no food and sips of fluid? Really?

    tewdles replied to Marshall1's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I find that when families ask hospice staff "how long" they often receive information that is troubling to them. In this instance it is troubling because it seems too long. The bottom line is that we...
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    What are your thoughts on patients who request no male nurses taking care of them?

    tewdles replied to Mike A. Fungin RN's topic in Men in Nursing

    In my estimation, patients have a right to refuse personal care by a health professional for any reason. Because of the intimacy of some of our nursing care, it seems reasonable to me that gender...