heron ASN, RN

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    Angry..

    heron replied to JellyDonut's topic in Critical Care

    Yup - in this case, the desired effect was some nice lively verbal fireworks. (New member + first post)xprovocation=The Dweller Under The
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    Hardest things we tell family

    heron replied to sjalv's topic in General Students

    The hardest thing I've had to tell families? "Your son/daughter died". Not fair, not
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    Angry..

    heron replied to JellyDonut's topic in Critical Care

    Don't look now, but the OP has
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    Angry..

    heron replied to JellyDonut's topic in Critical Care

    The swipe at diploma nurses leads me to believe that there's a bridge near here. Deliberately inflammatory, I
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    O2 for Unresponsive Pt

    heron replied to myhoagie02's topic in Emergency

    You're right, for the most part - but an overemphasis on the numbers can lead to badness too. It's a balancing act: "Is the clinical picture more good than bad or more bad than good?" as they put it...
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    A Newly Defined Type of Constipation: Opioid Induced Constipation

    heron replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    The conventional low cost remedies work just fine for the small number of chronic opioid takers in my ltc. So what kind of morbidity are we really looking at that justifies a whole new drug? And what...
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    A Newly Defined Type of Constipation: Opioid Induced Constipation

    heron replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Do either of those drugs work better than colace and senna? Or prune juice for that matter. Frankly, they sound like very expensive solutions in search of a problem. Couldn't find it, so they made one...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    That's a very stirring declaration, but you've picked the wrong hill to die on. Where vaccines are concerned, you've either been had or you hold stock in an alternative health
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Save some for my coffee - I live on iced
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Why? I didn't bite my tongue (obviously:sarcastic:) Wouldn't mind a good gossip over a cuppa coffee, though. But we might scare the little'uns with all the cackling, so maybe
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    See what I mean about the noise machine? Same old schtick over and over and
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I see a padlock in our
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    This thread and others, too. Nothing "ethical" about endlessly relitigating the same debunked assertions and pretending that epidemiology does not exist. That's not critical thinking either, it's...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I don't care whether you respond to me or not, frankly. The noise machine tactics to which I refer are the blizzard of irrelevant words under which you've buried the discussion of the anti-vaccine...
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    What offends you (nursing related)?

    heron replied to milesims's topic in General Nursing

    9. Lazy and/or ignorant pain management, especially when it involves labeling a patient as a "drug seeker". 10. Whining 11. Religious proselytizing 12. "Nurses' station character assassination" as my...
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    What offends you (nursing related)?

    heron replied to milesims's topic in General Nursing

    1. Nurses who assume some kind of moral superiority because they have a "calling" 2. Anyone, especially co-workers, that insist that I must be therapeutic 24/7. When I fail to provide the...
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I agree - they deserve a fair profit and a comfortable living. It's the price gouging that gets to me. I'm both a consumer and a provider of alternative healthcare ... and I'm here to tell ya that...
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    Libertarian Healthcare

    heron replied to 1edwood79's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Non-profit single payor. Eliminate the insurance industry altogether, pay fair prices for both goods and
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    The film: Vaxxed.

    heron replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Banterings - there's plenty of real dirt to shovel on Big Pharma, et al., but vaccines aren't part of it. It bothers me that you're using the same disinformation tactics to push your pov that they use...
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    Libertarian Healthcare

    heron replied to 1edwood79's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Indeed! Here's the thing: self-interest is supposedly the only rational motivation to do anything, hence the worship of profits. When I do something solely because it's in my own interest to do it,...
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    Why do some nurses "hate their jobs"?

    heron replied to iculvr's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it's the title of the thread. You seem to conflate hating one's job with not wanting an advanced degree and with being in nursing for the "quick money". Why I should assume that either of those...
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    Libertarian Healthcare

    heron replied to 1edwood79's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That's where I first parted company with both objectivism and libertarianism: the total denial of the whole concept of public good or social responsibility. They want to claim all the benefits of...
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    No pain meds in ER??

    heron replied to ShaneTeam's topic in Emergency

    IV acetaminophen is used in the UK - is it equally expensive there, I
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    Why do some nurses "hate their jobs"?

    heron replied to iculvr's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I'm not sure I understand your question - are we supposed to pick one? Also, your first bullet point (about "quick money") is
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    Broken

    heron replied to NotAllWhoWandeRN's topic in General Nursing

    All this, plus the observation that this kind of disposability is not unique to nursing. If you go to the Pro Publica website and read their series on workers' comp, you'll find lots of