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To Laidback Al: Then why are you including only the sugarcoated Conclusions/Interpretations instead of the Results and Findings in those studies? Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Results: During the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons, 165 a...

A study published in the October 2008 issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu had no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons. T...

When they occasionally call me "Mom" at work, they're referring to someone who helps them, watches over and guides them while at work; they're not disrespecting their real moms nor me nor are they being manipulative. They're not trying to get anythin...

I work in SICU/CVICU/CCU areas and am 59 years old. I've never minded being called Mom or Mama or anything of that sort; I take it as a compliment and believe that's how it was intended. I really care for the people I work with, whether younger or ol...

You can call the hospital's HR department and ask what the starting pay is for a new grad RN.

Maybe some people have the tin foil over their eyes...maybe they haven't read about how the CDC, FDA, WHO and the pharmaceutical companies are all interrelated, largely because of the financial ties of some of the key people in these groups. The EU ...

Many studies funded by pharmaceutical companies selling vaccines have "proved" that influenza vaccine is safe and effective. But independent reviews of those studies have found the opposite is true. Studies are now showing what people who refuse to ...

Chest hair is no more "nasty" than head or arm hair or any other hair. Who decided that it is? Where did this all come from anyhow? They're MEN, not women. And they shouldn't have to cover up any more than women have to.

Proof of present-day use of aluminum-based adjuvants in vaccines just so you know: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17201666 http://www.reeis.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/195042.html http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccine_components_detail.cfv?id...

Not taking a vaccination has absolutely nothing to do with washing hands and changing gloves and paraplegic firemen. I did NOT say the government was making the vaccine mandatory; I was making statements (granted, probably unclear statements) about ...

I DO understand the reasons for taking the flu vaccinations; I just don't think they should make them mandatory because there are just as many good reasons not to take them. They could make them safer for people to take without all the extraneous ga...

But I don't blindly trust the pharmaceutical companies nor their regulating agencies--they've had to recall too many medications they said were "safe"; usually after a lot of people died. There are lawsuits right now because the pharmaceutical compa...

I think everyone should be able to use marijuana just like alcohol is used, same laws and all. You can use pot without being a 'pothead' just like you can drink alcohol without being an alcoholic. After we took boards in the 70's, we celebrated by...

I'm 54 and work 7 12-hr shifts in a row and get 7 days off in a row; 29 years in so far. I wouldn't have tried it with young children, but now as long as I can get a couple of hours in the evenings to eat, shower and relax--it's all good. When I do...

Still, there's more risk in sticking yourself somewhere else--hands, fingers, etc. and they don't make you wear leather gloves. I think it has more to do with tradition and appearance rather than safety. It hasn't been that many years ago that we w...

I don't understand the safety issues with the holes in the shoes. Most of us get more spills/splatters of everything on our scrub pants and tops, and that's just a thin piece of material covering bare skin. My feet are precious to me--that's why I ...

I'm supposed to attend a 4-day CCRN review in Little Rock next month. Do you think the Gasparis tapes/CD's helped you a lot? All this stuff is so expensive (and we don't get a salary differential for it either). There's also a program on ed4nurses...

Bit ridiculous, isn't it. So maybe it's time for all the doctors' and nurses' associations and boards to do some updating.

I've probably posted this before, but it's always with me so bear with me, please. If you straight-line someone from pushing Verapamil (and push very slow with the elderly, don't slam it in even if the docs are telling you to), push Calcium right b...

Aw, well. Who reads AJN? Nurses. And we know our senses of humor are off the wall sometimes; it's how we let off steam, live with stuff we see every day, etc., etc. The dramatic point the author tried to make in the end is laughable to any workin...

You guys are so funny. Guys wear the same type v-neck scrub tops most of us wear with about the same amount of skin showing (yeah, some of those v-necks run pretty low on some of us females, too). And because their skin has more hair they should co...

Probably a lot depends on how closely you work with doctors. In SICU, you work with a lot of surgeons and just about every other specialty--and some of them are extremely arrogant. Yes, once in a while the nurses will have disagreements in our unit...

In a post CABG patient, Tridil turned off in a peripheral line--then a few minutes later, pt. was bolused with NS in the same line. Of course, there was still Tridil in the tubing and the BP plummeted--this can happen with any kind of medication, th...

I don't know much about LTC, but in ICU's I've worked in (for 25+ years), most nurses record patient-specific information in a kardex or sheet of paper (or even half-sheet of paper) left on a clipboard with the nurse's notes. That is our true care p...

And when you're really overwhelmed and want to drop, just go again and do what you need to today. You can make yourself make it through one more day...each 'today' at a time.