Bill Levinson

Bill Levinson

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  1. Recruit coronavirus survivors to help health care providers?

    Bill Levinson posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am not a health care professional and I don't know if this would work, but would there be circumstances under which people who have recovered from coronavirus be hired by hospitals to assist health...

  2. Iron Lung vs. Ventilator

    Bill Levinson posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am an engineer and not a health care professional, so I'd appreciate some feedback from people on the medical side. There is widespread concern about the shortage of ventilators, and also an...

  3. Iron Lung vs. Ventilator

    Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That makes sense to me too, then. There is obviously a difference between polio patients and COVID-19 patients. It sounds like negative pressure will not expand the aveoli,

  4. Can I Refuse to Work If My Facility Does Not Have Proper Personal Protective Equipment?

    Bill Levinson replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If hospital administrators are demanding that health care professionals work without adequate PPE, then perhaps they should set an example by accompanying doctors and nurses, while wearing whatever...

  5. Covid-19: Would you ever hire me if you saw I quit during this crisis?

    Bill Levinson replied to ScrubberDucky's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am not in management but I think very poorly of a management team that forced you to use your vacation time to recover from an illness you apparently got while on the job. Also, it is conceivable...

  6. Can I Refuse to Work If My Facility Does Not Have Proper Personal Protective Equipment?

    Bill Levinson replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My opinion (not legal advice, or formal engineering or OH&S advice) is that medical personnel who choose to work in a COVID-19 environment are going above and beyond the call of duty. With regard...

  7. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think Oscar the Cat can tell by odor when somebody is going to

  8. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    Bill Levinson replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They ought to be able to train dogs to detect C-diff. Dogs can even detect certain forms of cancer (due to the trace odors exhaled by the patient) as well as diabetes. Well trained dogs could...

  9. The Patient I Failed

    Bill Levinson replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The initial decision to give CPR was correct because a living will takes effect only if the person is terminally ill. In other words, if somebody with a living will but no terminal illness collapses...

  10. Brian Short News

    Bill Levinson replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry to hear this; it comes as an unpleasant

  11. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this is what Oscar the Cat

  12. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have heard that dogs can smell certain kinds of cancer. The cells doubtlessly emit a chemical that is not found in healthy tissue. I have never heard of a person being able to do it,

  13. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    A Day in the Life of Oscar the

  14. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oscar the Cat is famous for being able to predict when somebody is going to die. It is quite possible that he smells some kind of biological

  15. How much walking do you have to do every day?

    Bill Levinson posted a topic in General Nursing

    A nurse told me that she wore a pedometer and discovered that she had to walk eight miles every day. At three miles an hour, that would come to 2.67 hours out of every eight that she works. Henry Ford...

  16. How much walking do you have to do every day?

    Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in General Nursing

    Ford would indeed have done this so fewer nurses could care for more patients--but without reducing quality by reducing the time that the nurses could spend with the patients. Suppose, for example,...

  17. How much walking do you have to do every day?

    Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in General Nursing

    I am an industrial quality professional, and I am currently involved in a panel on health care reform. (I previously was part of Governor Rendell's health care reform panel, where he brought in...

  18. How much walking do you have to do every day?

    Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in General Nursing

    "Carrying" (transportation) is actually defined as a non-value-adding activity (waste) in lean manufacturing, e.g. if parts have to be moved from one part of the factory to another. The parts must...

  19. How much walking do you have to do every day?

    Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in General Nursing

    This is all excellent information, and I can use it in some articles I am writing about GENUINE health care reform. It confirms that the story I heard from a nurse a couple of weeks ago is not an...

  20. The Patient I Failed

    Bill Levinson replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Re: As far as I know, the initial decision to perform CPR was correct. A living will applies only if the patient is terminally ill or permanently unconscious. Some states prescribe a period of time...

  21. Don't Blame the Nurse : Fix the System

    Bill Levinson posted a topic in General Nursing

    Furthermore, a culture of blame discourages health care workers from reporting near-miss situations, while the identification of a person to blame deflects attention from the underlying problems that...

  22. Patient Safety Net

    Bill Levinson replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is interesting http://www.ismp.org/Newsletters/acutecare/articles/20071115.asp "Errors with injectable medications: Unlabeled syringes are surprisingly common!" Anyone who has worked in a...

  23. No nurses, pt died.

    Bill Levinson replied to mandi131's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is why I have ZERO sympathy for health care providers that want legislative caps on malpractice damages. The financial consequences of cutting corners (e.g. by understaffing) have to be far worse...

  24. Posters that are not nurses

    Bill Levinson replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    The people for whom I have no respect are hospital administrators and executives who create bad systems and then discipline the nurses when inevitable problems result. If a nurse (or medical...

  25. Posters that are not nurses

    Bill Levinson replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    i would never dream of telling a md, rn, or lpn how to do his or her job. since i have considerable experience and several professional certifications in the quality management field, however, i am...