Archive for August, 2008

• Nursing While Fat - NWF

  Sunday, August 31st, 2008

  I would like to make a confession right her and now. For thiry-five years I was a lady of the night. Gotcha!! No, I did not walk the streets of San Diego, California. I did walk the long, cold, semi dark halls of the hospitals where I worked. I always came to work dressed professionally [...]

• A patient’s health

  Saturday, August 30th, 2008

  Each and every day that goes by finds me questioning the profession I have loved and worked in since 1959. I am proud to say that I am a nurse even though I can no longer work due to heath problems. I know how things work and I really understand that technology has made diagnosing [...]

• Medi-Care mine field

  Friday, August 29th, 2008

  I have mentioned that I am retired an now trying to navigate through the medical mine fields of Medi-Care.What a mess to have to deal with. I worked and had good health insurance for so many years that I had no idea what Medi-Care would be like. Even as a nurse, I’m still having a [...]

• Hospital care in San Diego California P1

  Thursday, August 28th, 2008

  Well it has happened again. A major mistake which has caused the death of another trusting patient.
  The situation involved a patient’s breathing tube being repositioned after surgery on the advice of a radiologist without the input of the attending doctors. Was this procedurally correct? This hospital has been in the news for many mistakes and problems. [...]

• Hospital care in San Diego California

  Thursday, August 28th, 2008

  I now live in the nations most beautiful city, San Diego, in the state California, which is often thought of as an enlighten state. Well recently there was an article in our local newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, that made my heart drop. The state is fining a mumber of hospitals a total sum of [...]