Archive for September, 2008

• Nightshift and working nights may be hazardous to your health!!

  Monday, September 8th, 2008

  I worked nights for thirty five years. I am very interested in some current studies that state working nights can disrupt your body chemistry. This causes a higher incident of breast cancer. There are also a number of other health problems that are being blamed for poor health in people who work nights. Toiling inside [...]

• Nursing profession eating its young

  Sunday, September 7th, 2008

  Nurses eating their young is a relationship gone awry. There is a phenomenon in nursing where the people who work the hardest and are sometimes compassionate to a fault, will undermine their younger peers by failing to give all needed information about patients, hiding information about standard procedures, or just being rude to them. But [...]

• The obesity problem

  Thursday, September 4th, 2008

  Thank god, they have finally given me an answer to my weight problem. There is a new Canadian study where scientist at Lavel University showed that after long sessions of intellectual work, the subjects were more likely to eat excess calories. Even though this test was only done with a small group of 14 subjects, the [...]

• An unavoidable tragedy

  Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

  What the hell is it going to take for us to realize that the metal health system as it is, has not worked? There was a shooting in Alger, Washington where six people were killed and two injured. The person was well known by the local police to have mental health problems. This young man’s mother stated he was [...]

• Looking Back 2

  Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

  Oh geez. I’m probably going to piss off a few of my good friends. I am going to tell you that for a very large number of skilled, sane nurses, there are a few who made the characters of One Flew over the Coo Coos Nest seem lucid. But in actuality they were mad as [...]