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How did this happen, and how can this be avoided - the man goes to emergency because of his leg, they bandage it and send him home? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/man-spends-weekend-hell-edmonton-hospital-015349349.html

"The Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa, a women's rights advocacy group, is also trying to help her reunite with her baby. They have offered to house Bilotta in their women's shelter and they have already helped her file complaints with the Ontario Omb...

Is this nurse competent - if she/he told this pregnant woman that she's only having phantom labour, and given an antacid? Yet the woman (who happens to be in a jail) is pregnant, and has a breech delivery, after being put into segregation. http://ca...

In the past, I got my CPR from St. John's Ambulance two-day training sessions. Or, another time I got it through my employer - SRT Med-Staff arranged for training session for interested staff at their office (probably I paid a fee for this). You mig...

Are there any nursing agencies in your area (check the yellow pages, or ask around)? Have you tried long-term care?

This nurse had been going into files of people with whom she had personal connections, not professional reasons, so they fired her. She knows that she isn't supposed to violate patients' right to confidentiality. So, I'm thinking that her employer ...

Important that this issue of privacy and confidentiality is, is it possible to consider that this nurse can learn to work according to the rules? And maybe consider that she would benefit by being given a warning, rather than termination? Maybe with...

Reminds of a local situation here where a nurse got fired for similar reasons - knowing one of the patients personally, the nurse got into her file and then told her own mother (acquaintance of the patient) about the patient's health problem. So the...

Some patients were not given sedation during their eye surgery as described in this link: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1222917--second-senior-says-she-had-cataract-surgery-without-sedation-at-oakville-trafalgar-hospital and so I wondere...

When a senior client is in a senior's facility, and a family member requests that the client's competency will be assessed, who decides re: the client's level of competence to make their own decisions about things, such as their finances. Does the ...

Maybe family has to speak to a lawyer, to get things moving on this? Sounds like court decides. So, there must be a formal way that this is all arranged.

Thanks for the replies. So, when family has requested this kind of assessment, having spoken to the nursing staff about this request, because of concerns about the senior's ability to make decisions about their finances, etc., then does the family ha...

I can understand why there would be a falsely low systolic reading, but could someone explain why there would be a false high diastolic reading if the Auscultatory Gap is undetected? Thanks

Doctor in Montreal taking photos of naked female patients: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/montreal-doctor-suspended-fined-filming-naked-patients-hidden-20110215-153425-718.html

just correct me or enhance my understanding about when RhoGAM is given. If the mother is Rh negative and unsensitized then she receives RhoGAM if she has an Rh positive fetus, but she does not receive it if the infant is negative. She might have rece...

here's my question my textbook says that rubella titer of 1:8 is susceptible then it says 1:10 indicates immunity then it says 1:18 is immunity so I ask at a local doctor's office and he says something vague about 25 or less than 50 (so I ask him to ...

Can anyone help me to find instructions about how to use the Denver II Developmental Screening Test? My textbook describes the test, and my manual has a chart and a sheet with a list of items, but no instructions about how to give the test. Thanks...

in my manual, it explains Universal precautions "do not apply to nasal secretions, sputum, saliva, sweat, tears, urine, feces, or vomitus". In the textbook it says that BSI includes not only blood and some body fluids but also urine, feces, wound dra...

how to protect a patient's heels on those feet that lie for hours on the bed and now have discoloured areas - diabetic feet, recent cellulitis what can be used to prevent heel decubitus ulcers? BEFORE the heels turn purple with those blistered-look...

I am reading about postpartal management re: preeclampsia-eclampsia and there is mention of nursing care to DC buffalo cap if present what is a buffalo cap? (I checked Google and get a variety of other topics about buffalo items)

are there any nursing employment agencies that you could try?

Recently I've seen ads for nurses to work in Corrections - would that area be of interest to you?

If you have decided that this is what you wish to do, then I believe that you can do it. As for the clinical - make sure that your program has a definite plan in place for you to have your clinical. (my situation right now, after having taken al...

This is not to refer to any specific distance learning program, but it is my present experience that the arrangements for a preceptor and clinical have become an uncertainty, while I have completed all the pre-requisite courses and paid for all tuit...

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