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OK... here is the final word on THE perfect place to live. Think high desert. Low humidity. No bugs (Florida and Texas!!! you can saddle up and ride the cockroaches! I live at 4600 ft. above sea level. My dogs don't get fleas, we have no fire an...

yeah, I think you're being too sensitive, but I'd be feeling the same way. You can't judge yourself (only) by what others say. When someone is dumping on you, ask yourself if they're giving you any useful information. You know when you're being ra...

I didn't think I'd like neuroscience (had a mental picture of gorked out brain dead pts.) but it's nothing like I expected. Intellectually challenging with new stuff every day. The world is your oyster. Why not join the float pool for a few month...

I think you and Daytonite are right. I thought I almost had her out of there, just moments before sending her off, only seconds from getting her signature on her discharge papers... and then this urgent issue arose in the other room. I was absolute...

Dear NREMT-P/RN & Triage Excellent point about the nesting-at-the-nursing-station. I hadn't thought about the HIPAA ramifications and the issue hasn't ever been raised (in my memory) at any staff meetings. I think I will talk to our unit manage...

I'm assuming that you agree with the California Board that you were in need of a period of supervision because of a problem related to drugs. I'm also going to assume you're going to be straight up and honest with the TX BON about this problem and h...

Let me sound a contrarian note here. First though, understand that I'm a nurse married to an MD. One daughter is graduating from med school this May, the other is an RN working in our ER. I'm only saying that to indicate I'm not a bigot. Having s...

Vis. the WTC... There are a lot of chronic inflammatory lung diseases that are the result, often, of small particulates that can settle in alveolae and start a slow process that results in damage. We probably will continue forever in finding substan...

You're probably right. In the beginning, no one knew what was going on with AIDS, but they did have a condition that appeared to be following an infective trajectory. They also had circumstantial evidence to suspect that it was something transmitte...

I think MCSS is a trash-can diagnosis and the "specialist" may not be doing your sister any favors. By that I mean, your sister may, in fact have something very real and very debilitating, but she really doesn't have a diagnosis yet. She's been cla...

Yeah... I'd be a bit circumspect about giving O2. If I were a nurse at that facility, I'd have given you my thanks for helping the pt. to the BR... and also apologized for being tardy. But I would probably sit you down and have a talk about scope o...

Tyrius... Give a thought to the amount of debt you may incur during nursing school. Starting pay for nurses is not huge. Not bad. Just not huge. Keep your debt load low. I don't think prestige means squat, really when it comes to nursing school. ...

Washoe is trying to get magnet status. I'm not sure how they are going to do this with pt. ratios like they have on GSU. Re: California's numeric ratios... I've heard that this had bitten nurses in the butt at several hospitals. First of all (I'm...

These comments appeared on a blog run by the American Enterprise Institute. The whole thing is worth reading. In order to put some backbone in the press for the trials ahead, let's pick a day--I nominate February 28th, two weeks from today--in which...

Hi again Elkpark, Thank you for your reply. There used to be a time when the words rhetoric and polemic had good connotations, i.e., thoughtful, articulate, persuation or dialogue. This is what the internet in general and this site in particular ca...

Washoe Medical Center and St. Mary's are the main players in town. Rumors are that Mary's is having serious fiscal problems and their census is not good. Also rumor has it that they are making bone-headed attempts to computerize absolutely everythi...

In our urban hospital, a nurse takes care of any order that comes along and sees that it's carried out. Doesn't need anyone to look over his/her shoulder. But each shift is also responsible for doing a chart check.

Thanks for your reply, Elkpark. I feel so strongly about this free speech issue and may I say, God bless the ACLU and anyone else that comes to freedom's defense. Let me try to give some serious responses to the points you made. First... you're righ...

I was hoping to encourage any Danish nurses who might find their way to this site. Perhaps the discussion would actually be seen by more Danes if it were in Current Events, but I s'pose we can let the moderators call that one. Thanks for your suppor...

I remember having to run a pretty angry gauntlet of protesters to see "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Dogma" when they came out ... And you can't pick up a newspaper any more without reading a letter to the editor from some Religious Right crac...

While we're tallking about this... I would like to pick your minds a bit. I'd appreciate your feedback. I went to a poster session put on by an ICU CNS on VAP. She and I agreed on the importance of mouth care and I picked up some good tips from her...

Just a reflection here, but I think the Community College system was a genious idea. Don't know what policy wonk thought it up, but it has really become an engine for upward mobility that is genuinely American in character. Not only can people pull...

I got this pissy little virus on Sunday. A little fever, fatigue, sore throat. It went away by Monday afternoon. Even went to work Tues. But... wham... by that evening I could tell I was getting tight. By this morning I was tight as a drum. Lord...

Thanks you guys, I am feeling better today. I knew it just would take some hours for the meds to kick in. I mean, I knew this... got all this head knowledge, and still, when you are dyspneic, you get all panicky. I can really understand why patien...

Hi I find myself on your forum because I am really sick with asthma today. About Arizona... I had heard what GrannyNurse said. When you move, you definately do encounter new antigens. However, usually you get a "grace period" where you spend the f...