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  1. Translator for patients

    macawake replied to Auttybee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In my country the legal right to have a translator present when the patient isn't proficient enough in Swedish to ensure that safe and correct medical care is provided, applies to both parties...

  2. Why can't hospitals do better?

    macawake replied to ORNurseCOS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Slightly off-topic, but I was shocked when I read how much a patient in the US is charged for TPN. Fourteen hundred dollars? Is this a bag for one day? This prompted me to check the price for TPN in...

  3. Demanding patient wanting me to page MD about insignificant issue.

    macawake replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What alternative action was available to you? You can educate and inform patients, but you can't use force. I'm certain that taking the patient's medication from him or her by force and then hiding it...

  4. Demanding patient wanting me to page MD about insignificant issue.

    macawake replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Eye vitamins (sounds like an expensive marketing ploy imho). There's no way that I'd ever bother anybody with a request like that at that time of day. On the off-chance that the patient is genuinely...

  5. Nurses Enabling Substance Abusers

    macawake replied to zombienurse13's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If the patient's physician has prescribed the medication and the patient requests it, I'll give it to them if their vital signs permit. I'm not the drug morality police. It bothers me that some nurses...

  6. Justify this nursing diagnosis

    macawake replied to malenurse69's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a Swedish nurse. If I remember correctly that particular diagnosis doesn't exist in the Swedish translation. In my opinion it's hardly a scientifically sound diagnosis, so I can't say that I think...

  7. My favorite med:

    macawake replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in Patient Medications

    I don't really have a favorite medication, it's basically whatever helps my patient the best with the problem they're experiencing at the moment. Certainly a lot of analgesics and PONV meds. I...

  8. My coworker is stealing

    macawake replied to anonomous's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Management will take notice and act if this keeps happening. Personally I'd let them worry about it and not let it bother me. I don't see anything good coming from meddling in it. After all, this is...

  9. difference in degrees

    macawake replied to skbella's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm going to join this little debate with all the arrogance someone who speaks English as a fourth language, can muster I actually interpreted your statement "Even if BSN does provide a better...

  10. Have you travelled to Africa is a invasion of privacy?

    macawake replied to IrishIzCPNP's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that asking if a patient has travelled recently is an invasion of privacy, but I do agree with KelRN that "Have you travelled to Africa" recently is the wrong question. Africa is a huge...

  11. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    You really didn't have to dig up some research, I was joking you know :) I think that your example here is rather apples and oranges. Even if you can find some gender specific characteristics, my...

  12. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    You have OPINIONS (horror of horrors!)? I'd like to see peer-reviewed scientific research or your opinion doesn't count Seriously though.. Men = rational. Women = emotional What a tired old...

  13. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I can only speak for myself, but I'll answer your question as best I can. I am passionate about many human rights issue and yes, I believe that the circumcision of infants fall into that category. I...

  14. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    (My bold) Good grief. I never claimed that anti-semitism never played a part in cultural influences in my country or in any country in Europe. (One would have to be completely ignorant regarding...

  15. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I responded to your post suggesting that anti-religious feelings/bigotry was the reason behind resistance to infant circumcisions in Europe by sharing a bit about the cultural background about my...

  16. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I'll give it a try. This is my main concern, in fact it's the entire basis for my objection to circumcisions of male infants. I said in my very first post in this thread "if a grown-up man wants to...

  17. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    It is thought by many? I wonder why you brought this up? To me it begs the question, are you one of the many? I can only speak confidently about my own country and our neighbors, the rest of...

  18. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I know I said that I was done... but this I can not resist I am as most have realized against circumcision of male infants. Since this is the case one might perhaps assume that I'd be thrilled if I...

  19. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    You could just as easily have worded that as a question, instead of assuming that I make "one-sided" decisions. "Have you read the commentary from the AAP?" would have worked just fine. You don't have...

  20. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely am. Pierced ears aren't a medical necessity, the child can decide when she or he gets old enough if they want pierced ears. I'm also against parents who have their children tattooed (yes,...

  21. 12 lead depression

    macawake replied to Paramedic51's topic in General Nursing

    There's not enough information in your question to answer it properly. There can be many so different causes for ST segment depression. In what leads is the depression noted? Is it a resting or...

  22. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I actually am in the pro-choice group, it's just that I think that it's a decision that should be made by the individuals themselves when they're adults. I don't view children as appendages of their...

  23. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    (bold mine) This is slightly frustrating. How can you read my post and conclude that I think that I have the right to make the decision? I do NOT have the right to make decisions about another...

  24. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand the point you're making. This is about men and women (a.k.a. parents) making decisions about someone else's genitalia (namely minors). Why shouldn't men AND women be able to...

  25. CDC rec to counsel all males about benefits of circumcision

    macawake replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    Those are done by consenting adult women here too. Some do them because the size of the labia make them "chafe" or cause discomfort in other ways and some because they don't think that theirs looks...