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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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Health workers and their lack of confidentiality
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
There is a story online of workers in an ER taking pictures of patients and posting them on their Myspace Page. This is such a breach of a patient’s confidentiality that there are no words to express my anger. Why would a thing like this happen? Well I know in part this is due to people [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]