Susie2310

Susie2310

Member

  • Content

    2,121

  • Visitors

    37,383

  • Followers

    2

  • Likes

    1,009

All Content by Susie2310

  1. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Go to the thread on this forum "Ebola: Why Respiratory Protection Must Be Worn" and read on the OP the first link by experts in infectious disease and respiratory

  2. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Some of the comments by nurses about the general public are simply offensive. No-one says nurses have to be mute, but expressing offensive comments about the general public on a public forum when the...

  3. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I agree completely. I have read nurses on these forums complain that the general public does not trust health care professionals. I wonder why. I am a nurse and I find some of these comments about...

  4. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think the general public expects health care professionals to be willing to undergo quarantine (especially short periods) when they return from caring with patients with a disease as serious as...

  5. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I recommend this article to everyone here who believes that enough is known about Ebola virus transmission to make quarantine

  6. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is a rather divisive comment. How would you feel if other people characterized you in unflattering

  7. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Quarantine is a public health measure and in this country states have varying quarantine laws. The federal government has control over issues related to public health at ports of entry to the...

  8. Algorithms in theory vs. in practice

    Susie2310 replied to TLSpaz's topic in Emergency

    I am looking at the algorithm for Tachycardia with a Pulse on the AHA card, and my understanding is that if a narrow complex tach is producing symptoms of INSTABILITY, i.e. hypotension, chest pain,...

  9. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What is not sensible about this? Nurses very publicly bring to the attention of the public the lack of preparedness of health care facilities to deal with Ebola: lack of proper PPE, proper training,...

  10. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If medical experts are not certain as to how the disease is transmitted from person to person, and a medical professional who recently returned from caring for Ebola patients has tested positive for...

  11. RN Detained and Quarantined As Ebola Hysteria Reaches a New Low

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well, nurses have just advocated very publicly for the highest level of PPE/respiratory protection when caring for patients with Ebola. According to medical experts in infectious disease transmission...

  12. Doctors Without Borders Physician Tests Possitive for Ebola In New York City

    Susie2310 replied to herring_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This poster is asking a reasonable question. Even experts in infectious disease transmission say that no-one knows for certain how the virus is transmitted from person to person. There is still a...

  13. BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    Susie2310 replied to michaelvgrigsby's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There's absolutely nothing wrong with going to one of the country's best universities. My family member attended a world class university in the US where the teaching assistants did most of the...

  14. shotgun knowledge from emergency geniuses

    Susie2310 replied to tarotale's topic in Emergency

    Not an emergency genius, sorry, but my thinking on your first question is that the physician is checking for sepsis/septic shock. Lactic acid would indicate anaerobic metabolism, where oxygen delivery...

  15. I do not want to give up.

    Susie2310 replied to Tesfanurse's topic in General Nursing

    You should be able to find information about license renewal at your state BORN web site. Continuing Education courses for nurses (that will award you contact hours) can be found on the internet or...

  16. I do not want to give up.

    Susie2310 replied to Tesfanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, by CEU's (Continuing Education Units) I did mean contact hours. I'm sorry for the

  17. I do not want to give up.

    Susie2310 replied to Tesfanurse's topic in General Nursing

    I recommend checking with your state BORN as to what the license renewal requirements are for your state. My understanding is that some state/s require a certain number of hours of nursing practice...

  18. Legal?

    Susie2310 replied to Junebug14's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The nurse-patient relationship is based on trust. The Nurse's Code of Ethics does not appear to support the use of

  19. Ebola: Why Respiratory Protection MUST Be Worn

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    According to the first link (a commentary by experts on respiratory protection and infectious disease transmission) provided by the OP, Ebola could be an aerosol-transmissible disease (infectious...

  20. Ebola: Why Respiratory Protection MUST Be Worn

    Susie2310 replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you for providing this information. After reading the first link, a very informative commentary by experts on respiratory infection and infectious disease transmission, I am persuaded that a...

  21. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

    Susie2310 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In the UK one's National Insurance contribution (a deduction from one's paycheck) covers medical care received from the NHS. The actual amount one pays is, to my knowledge, calculated as a percentage...

  22. Difference between getting ADN, then BSN and going straight for BSN?

    Susie2310 replied to Mbro5's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I don't think that what you are contemplating is pointless at all. I pretty much followed what you have outlined. It was much cheaper and far more practical for me to obtain my RN license through a...

  23. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

    Susie2310 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I wanted to add to this to say that I think that if the incentives to provide quality medical care (that many of us are fortunate to receive, both before the ACA and now with the ACA), can be retained...

  24. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

    Susie2310 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Could you clarify what you mean when you ask how does state aid help the poor to become good health care consumers in regard to their having no out of pocket costs? The poor have a lack of choice as...

  25. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

    Susie2310 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Regarding the UK health system, I read that according to one study, the UK came first out of eleven countries with respect to access to care and efficiency of care delivery, in eight out of eleven...