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    How do you like to be acknowledged at work for a good job done

    MassED replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    how about "you'll receive an extra 3% on your next annual review because of your good performance." That's all that matters to me. Any other time there are "atta boys" at work, it feels like a...
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    and yet another

    MassED replied to NewlyGradBSN's topic in General Nursing

    needle stick injury at your facility has no protocol to follow? How about go to your ED and tell them needle stick injury on the job. They will assess your risk and go from there. If you don't work at...
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................... too much to get into..... it's hard enough to get through 12 hours in the ER!!! Bottoms
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    Here's something you don't see every day

    MassED replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    in that same vein... had a man come in who had been working under his home, renovating - very very old home. Came in with "rash" - turned out there were WELL over 100 ticks all over him. So small...
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    I know that there are national patient safety goals - Joint commission enforces these. I know that there's a tie between hospital accreditation and medicare payments. If a hospital fails a Joint...
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    ER wait time clocks????

    MassED replied to bonestAx's topic in Emergency

    I'm sure it's coming. Our wait times in the ER lobby are generally 4 to 5 hours on a good night... yikes! But if they could get the machine to actually MOVE patients in a timely manner, then that...
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    ER wait time clocks????

    MassED replied to bonestAx's topic in Emergency

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    ER wait time clocks????

    MassED replied to bonestAx's topic in Emergency

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    ER wait time clocks????

    MassED replied to bonestAx's topic in Emergency

    but would an insurance company pay for a non-life threatening emergency? During office hours? ?????? Maybe not... I don't know, I'm not one to go to an ER... it WOULD have to be an open fracture,...
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    ER wait time clocks????

    MassED replied to bonestAx's topic in Emergency

    :smackingf:yeah: LMAO. That'll be the day. I would like someone that works at an ER that offers this to chime in on how effective this is. Our ER is talking about this, but with us barely being...
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    ER wait time clocks????

    MassED replied to bonestAx's topic in Emergency

    do you work in an ER? It takes MINUTES to triage a patient, so in all likelihood, it is the actual ordering/disposition by a doctor that truly holds things
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    http://www.allhealth.org/briefingmaterials/healthinsurancereportkofmanandpollitz-95.pdf "congress relied on states to adopt and enforce national insurance standards in part because the federal...
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    I know about the guidelines.... my point is more the bigger picture. What is ordered by a doctor and how it is then paid. Who decides what is appropriate? Obviously the doctor. More to the point,...
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    Advice from someone who might have "been there"...

    MassED replied to tunafish1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    sounds like you had the platform and everyone heard that this professor lowered the bar for those D students to pass... but that they still had to repeat the class. So is the requirement that if you...
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    Advice from someone who might have "been there"...

    MassED replied to tunafish1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    great
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    can young,healthy,athletic men have heart attacks?

    MassED replied to Lurker011's topic in General Nursing

    Flo-Jo died of asphyxiation due to an epileptic seizure...
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    can young,healthy,athletic men have heart attacks?

    MassED replied to Lurker011's topic in General Nursing

    yes, but stated this in keeping with the original post line of
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    can young,healthy,athletic men have heart attacks?

    MassED replied to Lurker011's topic in General Nursing

    any man can have a heart attack. There is no profile, per
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    Online Nursing

    MassED replied to JuliaC2014's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I don't know that ADN is offered online.... there is so much that is required for clinical time.... you could find out, though, from any college that has a nursing program. Good
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1002320
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    yes. We document if they took their home aspirin and supplement to get it to 325 mg if they only took their 81
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    the more money THEY may get... I don't see that reflected in nursing salaries or ever even discussed in a yearly eval. Hey, such and such nurse, you were 100% in administering meds for our core...
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    hospitals also follow these to meet insurance requirements.... it just makes one wonder, then, are insurance companies ensuring the QUALITY and standards of our healthcare?? Are they ensuring...
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    Ordering aspirin tied into a part of ER MD salary ??

    MassED replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    this is a brand new attending.... made me think that if they don't follow certain protocols, are they not remimbursed appropriately? Do insurance companies follow, for instance, a CHF...
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    Tncc

    MassED replied to jillba's topic in Emergency

    no, it's not just EMS training for nurses. It's pretty detailed and specific to the emergent situation as it relates to