MunoRN RN

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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We've both posted links to that study on multiple occasions, I think with people who have pre-determined views that are immune to evidence that sort of thing just gets filtered out when they read...
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    MunoRN replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    I am a bedside critical care nurse, mainly ICU, some ER, some Rapid Response RN shifts. There's nothing in my notes, including the unflattering stuff, that I haven't already made the patient...
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    MunoRN replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    I would have no problem being asked and explaining 'why I wrote this and
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    Is Med/Surg Unit and Tele Unit the same or Different?

    MunoRN replied to PricelessRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's one of the various interpretations of the term that has come about, but really the terms refers to remote monitoring of any data, not just continuous EKG, and ICU patients are typically not on...
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    Is Med/Surg Unit and Tele Unit the same or Different?

    MunoRN replied to PricelessRN's topic in General Nursing

    There are lower acuity medical and surgical floors, including not cardiac-patient specific floors, that have added telemetry monitoring, so the term is no longer specific to a PCU. I've seen...
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    Is Med/Surg Unit and Tele Unit the same or Different?

    MunoRN replied to PricelessRN's topic in General Nursing

    Typically, a "tele unit" refers to progressive care units or sometimes 'medical telemetry' units, but really the term is kind of useless as a term to describe the medical acuity of a unit....
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    MunoRN replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    And if I'm that patient then I expect to have access to all of the information that is used to determine my course of care, regardless of whom may prefer that I be kept in the dark. If I found out my...
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    MunoRN replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    The CURES act specifically excludes notes that may be used to support an abuse claim, although such notes are still subject to being called into evidence in court, just as they have always
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    MunoRN replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    Patients have had legal access to their medical records, including nursing notes, since long before the current law which just limits how much of a hassle it can be to access your medical records....
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Landing on the ground can still be pretty gnarly even with a parachute, yet I don't see many people deciding they are better off without
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    A Fib With Aberrancy

    MunoRN replied to martymoose's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Aberrant beats occur in A-fib or other tachyarrhythmias because the right bundle branch typically takes slightly longer to repolarize than the left. When the rate is fast enough, or in the case of...
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    Need help with a question

    MunoRN replied to pnwRN88's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    What you describe is how I normally wake up, so I wouldn't get too far ahead of your skis just based on that. Is the speech slurred due to unilateral facial paralysis? is it dysarthria or just...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's reasonable to differentiate between inferred or indirect evidence and direct evidence, but there is no evidence of any kind to support your claim that the vaccine does not prevent infection or...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They've pointed out that vaccines are important part of how we stop the pandemic, so I'm not sure where you're getting that idea from....
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    NIHSS and Aphasia

    MunoRN replied to maggdon's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Anybody asked to perform an NIH stroke scale should be getting the NINDS validated training. It addresses how to score each item based on issues like receptive aphasia. One rule that is common...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    It's a bit silly to suggest that Pork spending is a characteristic specific to Democrats, Republicans added funding for abstinence only education to the first Covid relief bill, among other things....
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have to agree with pmabraham, while specifying which part, the context that he was responding to in saying it was Fauci that lacked integrity, was whether you considered QAnon or Fauci to be more...
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    President Biden thread

    MunoRN replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The quotes and representation of what Biden said don't appear in what was actually said, it appears he said the opposite. Did Biden Dismiss Uighur Genocide During His Town Hall? - The Dispatch...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I suppose if you thought the only purpose of a vaccine was to be able to stop wearing masks, then I could understand the lack of incentive to take it, but that's just a secondary perk, the main...
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    President Biden thread

    MunoRN replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Your answer was based on the premise that the hospital ship and field hospitals were taking Covid positive patients, they weren't, it's not about not liking the answer it's that the basis of the...
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    President Biden thread

    MunoRN replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Again, the Trump administration family separation policy was to separate children from their parents even if they were aware they were in fact their parents and not
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    President Biden thread

    MunoRN replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    They were also separating children from their families unrelated to suspicion of trafficking. The Trump administration admitted to this in court, the Justice department and judiciary committee...
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    President Biden thread

    MunoRN replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Child detention facilities were around long before Trump, children brought to the border by child trafficker's are held there until they can be returned to their family. What the Trump administration...
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    President Biden thread

    MunoRN replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I think calling him a Nazi might be giving him too much credit, I'm not sure he's necessarily capable or interested in adhering to any particular set of beliefs. He's certainly the political figure...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I also don't like to get into non-work related political debates at work, although views on staff vaccinations in a work environment that involves direct patient care would seem to be