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Bad luck my freaking #$%!
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Sorry for the expletives but this article has put color in my pale face which is now red with anger. An eighty-three year old man went into the hospital for a gallbladder surgery and ended up having his kidney removed! I will admit that my many years as a nurse wasn’t spent [...]
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Death by Emergency Room care or lack there of
Friday, September 26th, 2008
More and more stories are coming to light of the deaths of people being brought to emergency rooms where they die. Two of the latest cases have been patients in the ER who were there for long periods of time and nobody went to see about their needs. Both patients were psychiatric patients and both seemed to [...]
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The Flu season is upon us
Friday, September 26th, 2008
I don’t want to sound like the town crier but its here again.. The 2008-2009 Flu seasons is here and its time to stick out our arms and be brave. All kidding aside, those of us who are senior citizens or have a chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. or respiratory problems, should be [...]
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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 never [...]