LEFTFLANKPAIN

LEFTFLANKPAIN

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  1. Studer?

    LEFTFLANKPAIN posted a topic in Emergency

    How has Studer worked out for your facility? In principle, it's all very good. However in execution, our facility has seemed to lose touch with reality and moved out all of its proven high performers...

  2. Studer?

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to LEFTFLANKPAIN's topic in Emergency

    It is what it is, weather or not anyone can handle the truth, this is happening in my place. Looking for real, constructive input, I know there are other facilities that have big problems

  3. Studer?

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to LEFTFLANKPAIN's topic in Emergency

    Thank

  4. Chronic Extreme Emergency Department Shortstaffing

    LEFTFLANKPAIN posted a topic in Emergency

    Our facility chronically leaves our ED shorthanded by 25% to 75% in Nursing staff. This leaves extremely unsafe staffing ratios, I'm talking up to 11, 12 patients to 1 RN; also our RNs often must do...

  5. Chronic Extreme Emergency Department Shortstaffing

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to LEFTFLANKPAIN's topic in Emergency

    Thank you. These are scary times in some ERs around the country. I may try to lobby for a safe harbor type of program in my state. Thank you for that

  6. Chronic Extreme Emergency Department Shortstaffing

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to LEFTFLANKPAIN's topic in Emergency

    I love the ED so I would still go there. It's our facility that has lost complete sight of the patient, relying upon extreme short staffing to maximize profits. It has become extremely dangerous to...

  7. Chronic Extreme Emergency Department Shortstaffing

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to LEFTFLANKPAIN's topic in Emergency

    Might be time for me to do

  8. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Someone who does not get the Flu vax, does not get the Flu so does not pass it to patients is more dangerous than this? Deaths by medical mistakes hit records | Healthcare IT

  9. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Again...we will see. Strong legal arguments abound. Strong ethical issues

  10. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Have you even read the posts in this

  11. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    For those who may have been under a rock, this has been the recent buzz about Peer Reviewed studies and Scientific Integrity (aka *gasp* some scientists have been hasty, inaccurate or unethical): How...

  12. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    We will see how it goes when the lawyers come out. The Flu vaccination mandate brings up all kinds of Civil Rights and Medical Ethics issues. Sorry this isn't 1975 USSR, this is the

  13. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    As of late 2014, medical errors are the #3 cause of death in the U.S. This is one reason why I don't sit on my high horse as a Bachelor's Degree educated RN. Also have several other college degrees,...

  14. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    It's called Coersion and it's Unethical. At the point where the RN is asked to take a medication into his or her body, that staffmember becomes a Patient. To coerce a Patient into taking a medication...

  15. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Pretty unethical those here who are mocking Patient Choice. Judge, judge, judge. Ethically, our jobs are not to push our personal beliefs upon patients, but to inform them of the choices, the risks...

  16. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly

  17. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Hoorah!

  18. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Lo and behold the day after I posted on this thread I had a fully immunized pediatric patient who had had the mumps months ago.

  19. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Always baffles me when those who are pro-influenza vaccination imply that because they vaccinate their children, they are more compassionate than the rest of the world. Then in the next sentence will...

  20. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    I

  21. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Not necessary for you to be inflammatory and make personal attacks. There can be a respect for many opinions here without resorting to childish polarizing tactics. I am actually quite well educated...

  22. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Article about the Bioethics of tricky Informed Consent. Medical Research Stakeholders Seek to Overturn Informed Consent Protection | AHRP In the article it states that lack of strong or clear...

  23. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    I took lots of science courses and was an avid reader of scientific studies. The most very basic principle of science is, "scrutinize everything". The pro-vax camp who are dead set against...

  24. Working in a Trauma Center but nervous about Traumas, advice appreciated

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to Catch22Personified's topic in Emergency

    Caffeine. Be sure to have a steady source of caffeine that's easily accessible at all

  25. ER NURSE PEEVES

    LEFTFLANKPAIN replied to wojoRN's topic in Emergency

    That makes my heart