heron ASN, RN

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About heron

heron has 54 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in Hospice.


Born in 1950, I am a widow with one son and two grandchildren (so far. I grew up in a large, blended, terribly toxic family in rural New England and worked in the Boston area for 30 years before moving to ABQ.

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  1. Yep - He was the Corn King, consort of the Great Mother, before He was Jesus - reborn every year to renew the abundance of the
  2. You get the respect you give. It wasn't until Christians invaded Europe that the birthdate of Jesus was declared to be December 25. Before that, the accepted date was January 6. The date was...
  3. Surely you
  4. Good luck! I've been pointing this out since the Regan administration's made-up welfare queens. The magaphiles need to Google HCA and Senator Rick Scott, who presided over one of the largest Medicare...
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    Documentation to keep your license

    Not documenting a fall can have serious repercussions for you, your patient and your facility. What shouldn't be documents in the chart is the incident report that would be generated. I would also...
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    So was for-profit health insurance and healthcare delivery, back in the 70's. The schtick was that the profit motive would cause companies to keep costs down and quality high. After a 50 year trial...
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    OG Nurses: How did you use paper charts?

    Sometimes they were written on multi-copy forms, one copy went to pharmacy to fill meds. Nurses then transcribed orders onto MAR/TAR. Sometimes orders were faxed to pharmacy with nurses transcribing...
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    And you for yours. Am off to listen again to Rachael Maddow's book "Drift: the unmooring of American military power". I promise you, she's no pete
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    In your dreams, dude. For one thing, trump is claiming credit for this deal. The man never met a deal he wasn't willing to break or sell out. His history on "deals" goes back 50 years. Ask the...
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    I have no idea whether they are officially sanctioned. The creators are identified by random names or numbers. I don't know if DOD or the individual branches have social media programs, but I suspect...
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    Have you seen any bodycam footage? There's more than one narrative making the rounds. The woman's advocates are claiming that bodycam footage exists that shows the officer doing the ramming, then...
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    A protester just got shot by an ICE agent. Not active duty military. Rather, ICE = DHS law enforcement. The insane clown posse 2.0 is still trying to figure out how trigger something violent...
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    Phasing Out ADN?

    I graduated in 1972 with an ADN. The only thing that's changed is salaries rising, prices rising the proliferation of for-profit programs selling fairly iffy quality education and the ongoing...