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Wow, what a fascinating person. This is the first I've heard of him and his many achievements. I can relate to it particularly, as most of my private duty patients are on some type of continuous mechanical ventilation and often want to stick w...

I can't see how he can possibly be on his game when it seems he deliberately chooses to do events largely attended by his fawning sycophants. He trots the same old boring lines out there, but with increasing incoherence, "word salad" exactly. They'll...

@fermelis_0329 It seems to me you're getting into the healthcare field for all the right reasons and a great attitude as well. I believe the role of a CNA is every bit as important as the roles of everyone else. You usually spend the most one on on...

I agree. Most people who identify with one political party over their lifetime are very reluctant to cause a schism in that party. It's silly to call it "Trump hate", except in the case of Meghan McCain, and for very good reason. Lifetime Trump hat...

I believe polling numbers are pretty meaningless at this point, despite the media narrative of conjuring a horse race that does not exist yet. I started to believe that when Ronna McDaniel (and some others) adopted a strategy of tossing bones to the ...

That's quite a lot of change in a relatively small window of time, klone! I've been hanging out in the Politics Forum more often recently, but I felt some kinship due to what an awesome manager you are, based on your posts about outpatient leadership...

When I look back at scandals which have occurred in my lifetime, I'm amazed at how little attention this concept attracts compared to those. I'm beginning to think a larger political realignment is taking place, and that probably it is better t...

Trump is really no different than other notable authoritarian personalities. It's frightening to me that so many people aren't alarmed by someone who says they rely more on their instincts than what the experts are telling them. I can't think of a hi...

I agree, and while I find the exchanges between Luttig, Tribe and others on this topic fascinating, it has the drawback of not being well-understood by most others, (including me a good deal of the time) much as the original rationale Eastman predica...

Yes, if the baby had died in utero, as they seem to be claiming, there would have been an entirely different sequence of events involving the grieving process, support for the family, etc. Absolutely awful, but thank God for the man at the fune...

Yes. I feel comfortable speculating that Trump's fondest wish is to do January 6 all over again, and if he incites violence again, he'll point to exactly this type of language to exonerate himself, because he didn't explicitly tell people to beat a p...

Are you saying Nixon knew Ford was going to pardon him in advance of his then undetermined Watergate-related crimes before he appointed Ford to replace Spiro Agnew? Not trying to derail the topic-- just that I hadn't seen evidence of that beyond spec...

This is one thing that has changed since the advent of HIPAA, which is still able to induce panic in people. In support staff as in your concern "did I need to know that?", and in employers because they fear lawsuits. I would not call curiosity ...

If you compare and contrast all the press surrounding another prominent Democrat-- Senator Dianne Feinstein (blatant sexism aside) it becomes quite clear, in my opinion anyway-- the difference between something that is probably real and something tha...

How misleading is this? My very strong impression over the years is that the "significant ongoing debate at a national level" is generated from well-funded MD lobby groups protecting their turf. Really disappointing to say the least.

I would add that the challenges of changing specialties remained present for me throughout the years. Sometimes we older nurses get mad at ourselves while starting a new job in an unfamiliar specialty and think "I should know this! I've been a nurse ...

Yeah, but ants aren't so bad...🙂 we private duty nurses love to trade war stories to a certain extent. There is also Home Health Case Management if you can handle the driving. I found private duty worked well for me, and I was determined to avo...

I have done this in the past as well. I skip the usual cream and sugar and cut the liquid volume to 25% or thereabouts.

Very thorough, and a great job organizing the information and highlighting the key points!

I think there was about a 2 week window in there, right around the time those pictures of nurses wearing trash bag ponchos for PPE everyone was gushing about heroism and "thank a nurse today" etc. I had a feeling of foreboding because I knew it would...

I've always thought nursing was a combination of art and science. As those are my two top career interests, it turned out well for me. Thanks for a great article!

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I agree-- but I have learned over the years there are a small number of people who actually write a hellish feverdream stream-of-consciousness thing and hit the submit button. I like to save time on these by glancing over them rather than those wall ...

I occasionally watch a show called "I Survived". All of the episodes will allude to survival strategies whether it's a criminal act, a natural disaster or a person vs undomesticated animal in it's natural habitat. This has led me to conclude tha...

I think I might shed some light on the stutter claims. If you do a Google search there are basically zero results. But since not all information available prior to that is searchable, I recalled a 1992 book which involved the author focussing on a nu...