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Who is Really at Fault?
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Most of my years in nursing were spent in the mental health field so I am familiar with the problems of caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Upon hearing that a wrestling legend had killed his roommate, my heart went out to the families and to a man who can’t be held responsible for [...]
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Cancer - This Nurse’s Nightmare P3
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
I went back to work with my badge of courage, a scare that runs from under my right shoulder blade to five inches above my right wrist. I have never tried to hide it. I think of this as something to remind me that I am a survivior. As little as I thought about it, [...]
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Cancer - This Nurse’s Nightmare P2
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Most patients hate being in the hospital but nurses hate it even more. Yea!!! After 5 days I was going home. No more hospital food. No more hearing patients call out through my medically induced sleep and trying to answer them. I went home with my right arm anchored to my body by a very [...]
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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 [...]