A Hearty bit of sharing- new normal for me
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Here is a little update on why thing shave been so slow around A Hearty Life lately. I had been having issues with migraines, numbness and eye pain over the last few months/years really. Everything came to a head last month and my vision slowly worsened and my left hand and left leg didn’t want me to feel that they were there as well as my speech sounding more then a bit off- long and short is they are working me up for MS- I have hot spots/flare ups.
I am having another round of scans and more follow up appts with doctor/numerologist/ophthalmologist. So with all this new normal around here I have been just keeping a...
Source: A Hearty Life - July 5, 2008 Authors: Kendra James, RN Tags: Heart Disease in Women Heart-to-Heart heart-disease MS multiple sclerosis personal sharing
My Advanced Directive for boiled fish & broccoli sandwiches.. hold the tofu
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The aging psychiatric ailments don’t get a lot of column inches on mental nurse. It’s not my field either - but if any lurking mental nurses for the elderly want to jump in and take up the challenge… we’re not ageist - we do old mad people too.
So, in honour of the honourary nurse Shrink, I’d like to post some recent news from the BBC on Alzheimer’s theory updates I came across today that all seem to have a common ground.
Firstly, increase your bread and flour intake once they add the folic acid.
Lack of folic acid dementia link
Dementia is three times more common in people whose blo...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 5, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work alzheimers doctors old aged care
Learning from mistakes or seeking vilification and pillory?
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On the back of this other thread, I’m going to make a brief mention of “inquiries”. I’ve never really thought about it to the extent of whether inquiries are of use or not - tho I think they are when done as Root Cause Analysis.
But what is apparent is - there’s a difference of flavour in how an analysis is conducted and it’s outcome. I don’t know if there are any “rules” on how this happens - and I know there are times where incompetence has to be stamped out - but who decides when it’s merely a ’system error’ and when it’s an ‘unacceptabl...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 5, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work govt inequity inquiries
placebo addiction.
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Photo credit: rodrigo senna.
You read it here first.
Following the growing body of medical studies reporting the efficacy of the placebo effect in treating medical disorders ranging from chronic pain to hypertension to ADHD, there is a now a growing number of people developing ‘placebo addiction’.
In many clinical trials the placebo consistently out performs ‘no treatment’ group, and often out performs, the medical treatment condition as well. This has led to the inevitable abuse of this powerfully perceived drug. Emergency departments throughout Australia are having to manage an increase in patie...
Source: impactEDnurse - July 5, 2008 Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: the funnybone.
This Week in Mentalists (36)
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I’m now back from my refreshing holiday in Scarborough. The views of the dog food cannery were excellent, and I recommend the boiled herring. My tour guide Olga, a champion weightlifter and former KGB agent, says I behaved with “satisfactory efficiency” and that I may wax her back hairs for her, should I wish to do so. In return, I would like to use this forum to publicly thank her for her educational tours of the combine harvester factory.
Anyways, on with This Week in Mentalists.
Mandy Lifeboats Ahoy is impatient with being asked questions.
This goes out to all those professionals (coughs) who stand by...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 5, 2008 Authors: zarathustra Tags: Passing Connection To Work this week in mentalists
CSS in Blogger - Part Two
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This is the my second attempt at creating an image gallery within a Blogger Blog using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The code that I have used will allow for a larger image to appear when the cursor is passed over them.In my previous post, I created a similar CSS image gallery effect that I found at Dynamic Drive. All went according to plan if you were using Internet Explorer. But for those using other Internet browsers, the larger image was cut off at my sidebar. In my endeavour to learn more about CSS and CSS image galleries, I was lucky enough to come across a new acquaintance who goes by the name of, "Narrowband". I a...
Source: St Vincent's Hospital Darlinghurst - Male Nurses - July 5, 2008 Authors: Peter
saving lives quickly.
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Its always interesting to see how other cultures manage emergencies.
You know, you are watching the news and there has been a disaster, or an act of terrorism, or an accident and its all noisy and crowded with thirty or forty people all loudly trying to help out in different directions at the same time.
An ambulance careens into shot, the doors slap open and out charge the ambulance people, scooping up the patient and crowd surfing their way back into the truck, as the poor dude bounces around on the stretcher limbs all akimbo.
The ambulance screeches off through dust or debris, and out of shot around a tight corner barely...
Source: impactEDnurse - July 4, 2008 Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics
Hearty, healthy, red, white and blue cake for 4th of July
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A red white and blue hearty dessert recipe…
You will need: 1 store bought angel food cake
2 cups of strawberries
2 cups of blueberries
1 tub of Sugar Free Cool Whip
Sugar free strawberry Jello
Cut angel food cake in half, prepare Jello as directed and when set scoop out of container and mix so Jello becomes ‘chopped’ up. Place Jello on top of bottom piece of Angel food cake and place upper piece of cake on top- think of Jello as your filler layer. Use SF Cool Whip as icing and spread over the top and down the sides of Cake with Jello filler. Cut up berries and sprinkle on top of cake- hold out half to spr...
Source: A Hearty Life - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kendra James, RN Tags: Hearty Blogging Hearty Diet cardiac disease dessert healthy and diabetic diabetes heart-disease recipe cake
A hearty and happy 4th of July
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For all of those in the great USA- Happy 4th of July!
Image details: American flag against blue sky served by picapp.com
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Source: A Hearty Life - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kendra James, RN Tags: Hearty Blogging
Green tea is good for your heart- again!
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There is indeed a beneficial effect of green tea on risk factors for heart disease. A new study found that the consumption of green tea rapidly improves the function of endothelial cells lining the circulatory system which is big news in the progression of atherosclerosis.
Results showed that endothelium-dependent brachial artery dilatation increased significantly after drinking green tea, with a peak increase of 3.9 per cent 30 minutes after consumption.
This is too cool in that it is something you can due for your heart health right in your own home! I think green tea is an acquired taste but it is definitely worth ...
Source: A Hearty Life - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kendra James, RN Tags: Hearty Blogging blood-pressure cardiac disease food green tea heart-disease nutrition
Psycho Paperwork
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Tired of paperwork? Check out White Coat Rants to see the best post ever about medical forms that need a facelift.
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Source: Nurse Ratched's Place - July 4, 2008
Provigil: As American as Apple Pie
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Wow, I want whatever she’s on. She looks so Yankee Doodle PERKY! Maybe she’s standing like that because her leotards are too tight, or maybe it’s because she’s been taking a bit too much Provigil for her ES. That’s the new marketing term for “Excessive Sleepiness.” No, I’m not kidding. The makers of Provigil have found a new way of marketing trucker speed. Can’t stay awake? Take Provigil and wave your stars and stripes all day long! Check out this “non-biased” website about Provigil. The website also claims that Provigil cures apathy and Nurse K’s favorite ailment, fibromyalgia. Have a happy and saf...
Source: Nurse Ratched's Place - July 4, 2008
Know your limits or your blood pressure
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When you are fatigued, you increase your effort to make up for their diminished capability due to fatigue. When this happens blood pressure tends to rise and remain elevated until the task is completed or individuals stop trying because they think success is impossible or too difficult to be justified. So there you have it….
We feel that we will get a big ol’ pat on the back and a hooray, but really we are just harming ourselves. You need to know your limits and give yourself a break. Do not be a hero! What do you think about this?
via Science Daily
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Source: A Hearty Life - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kendra James, RN Tags: Hearty Blogging blood-pressure cardiac disease heart-disease
nurse a bit, dance a lot.
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Source: impactEDnurse - July 4, 2008 Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: not just a nurse.
Partying Like It’s 1999 Through the Eyes of Nursing Diagnoses
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Oh man, did I have a good time last weekend or what?
Two concerts in 24 hours - 345.62 miles apart, two flights and virtually no sleep for 36 hours.
I had a blast.
This is me with Mr. Jeff Scott Soto himself. What a thrill ! This was after the San Francisco concert last Friday. By the same time Saturday, we were all hanging out in the parking lot of the Reseda venue.
“We” meaning the band and about 40 fans.
Quite a let down to come back to work, let me tell you. My mind is still in LA, my body is obeying Joint Commission standards.
Well, at least I got to play “groupie” for a weekend, hung out with ...
Source: Emergiblog - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kim Tags: Blog
--I never promised you a rose garden...
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My landlords built their house about 20 years ago (in their 60's) themselves. She designed the home, (as well as several others in the "neighborhood.") My apartment, above the garage, was originally her design/art studio. When her sister needed a place to stay, they converted the studio to an apartment. Eventually, her sister had trouble climbing the stairs, so they built another apartment on the back of the house and rented the space where I now live. At some point her sister went to assisted living, and both apartments became income for them.My landlady is also a rose expert, specifically climbing roses. I wandered the p...
Source: Milliner's Dream - July 3, 2008
HR is leading the way. Oh dear.
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I’ve been following the John Spencer/Virgin Healthcare saga as raised by Doc C.
However, during my surfing I also stumbled across this Personnel Today HR website and was [expletives deleted] to read this insightful article. I make no apologies for posting in full - it has to be read to be believed. Incidentally, the site welcomes comments so feel free.
Mental health: Off message - No trace of nuts
22 May 2008 10:03
Warning: any member of the kneejerk brigade should have their hammers at the ready, and should begin tapping their patellas furiously in preparation for getting really, leg-twitchingly annoyed, for we a...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 3, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Mental Illness utter shite
A Prime time
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I was called upon to escort a patient that had presented in A&E to a hospital out of area recently. The patient who I will call Ted was a mathematician and at the start of our journey which was to take about an hour I asked him what branch of mathematics he studied. Number theory he replied and then proceeded to tell me all about it….
Number theory for those of you who don’t know (most of you I would imagine) is a branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of numbers in general and integers (whole numbers no decimal point or fractions) in particular. It what we used to call arithmetic when we were at scho...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 3, 2008 Authors: E Tags: Passing Connection To Work
MUCH ADO ABOUT NADA
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So, it keeps getting hotter and hotter and it comes closer and closer to my nervous breakdown, which usually happens during the summer months...and I just don't see it happening. While LTD still has to occasionally force the meds down, I take them on my own as much as humanly possible. I hate taking them. I hate it too much for mere words to describe, but I take them anyway. And they are keeping me sane. I tried to barter away a few of them at my appointment with the shrink, but that was a no-go. He always has to remind me that the better I feel, the less I feel the need for meds--but indeed, it is medication that is makin...
Source: Time for Your Meds - July 3, 2008 Authors: tracy at crazytracy.com Tags: MUSINGS
Shift Change
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Not to be confused with "Change of Shift," for which you should head over to Emergiblog to get info on how to submit your entry for the next edition! It's quite easy - all Kim wants is your very first post!
We were recently on vacation and on our way to returning the rental car, we stopped to fill it with gas. I thought I'd go in and get the boy some pretzels to munch on until we could get him some real food. I picked out a bag and went up to the counter to pay for them. The clerk informed me that they were doing "shift change" and that I'd have to wait if I planned on buying that bag of pretzels.
Seriously? I have never b...
Source: code blog: tales of a nurse - July 3, 2008 Authors: codeblogrn at gmail.com Tags: The Scoop
Product Reviews: Shit That Works Like It's Supposed To Edition
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It's been a while since I've done one of these. Therefore, without further ado, Shit That Works Like It's Supposed To:1. Cline Vineyards Viognier, 2007I've only ever tasted Becker Vineyards' (just down the road! Try the lamb!) viognier before, and found it a little on the sweet side. Cline Vineyards is a California establishment that produces a semi-dry viognier with a nice, peachy aftertaste that also includes a little oak and some citrus. It's good for drinking when the temperature is, say, 102* for the fifth stinkin' day in a row.2. MyChelle Fruit Fiesta Facial PeelThe blog on which I read the first review of this produ...
Source: Head Nurse - July 3, 2008 Authors: Jo
Why have nurses?
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Everything’s far too affable and agreeable here. So, cat, meet pigeons :
Why have nurses in mental health?
Really, stop and think for a moment. Maybe on in-patient units, where arguably nursing may still have a role for some patients some of the time (but is it RMN stuff?), some nurses may be needed some of the time. But not necessarily.
In the community, shouldn’t they all be banned?
If you need psychological work, the expert is the psychologist. If you need to optomise function, the expert is the occupational therapist. If you need diagnosis or drugs, the expert is the psychiatrist. If you need socia...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 2, 2008 Authors: TheShrink Tags: Outright Waffle bullshit nursing roles
I Hate You So Much Right Now
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I recently did a post on my site about a bipolar guy who, while drunk and detained in a psychiatric hospital in the USA, threatened to kill the president. The staff reported this to the secret service and the guy was subsequently sentenced to almost five years in jail.
Timothy Pinkston was detained in a psychiatric hospital at the time and therefore I would presume “clinically insane” or whatever the term is. I can’t understand how they could send him to jail for something he said while he was officially mad and safely locked up in a psychiatric hospital.
I wondered if you guys could enlighten me how things would...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 2, 2008 Authors: Mo Tags: Help Wanted Mental Illness Passing Connection To Work alcohol bipolar
My Next 30 Years
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"I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age The ending of an era and the turning of a page Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here Lord have mercy on my next thirty years " My goal when I graduated nursing school was to be a flight nurse by the time I turned 30. I started as a new grad in a Level 1 ED, the first new grad they hired in over 20 years. I switched to the ICU when I really didn't want to, just because I knew I HAD to. Our base sits on the water, so last night I sat on the skids, looked over at the water and thought about just how lucky I am that I achieved my goal. Its hard to know where to go f...
Source: thoughts from the night shift - July 2, 2008
Smoking Bans: The Global picture
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As the UK prepares to ban smoking in all public places including behind the bike sheds at the Mayfair club in London as well as euphemistically named “smoking rooms” on psychiatric admission wards up and down the country. Backrooms everywhere prepare to be no longer smoke filled and Mental Nurse takes a look at what other countries are doing to curb this perfectly legal occupation filthy and disgusting habit which is even worse than badger baiting or feeding small children feet first into the business end of a garden waste shredder.
Australia
Smokers are no longer able to light up on Manly, one of Australia’s most f...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 2, 2008 Authors: E Tags: Passing Connection To Work smoking
--Summertime Fun (and FOOD)
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On our first 90 degree day I enjoyed a day in the sun with a friend on Sunday. This included being introduced to sushi, a baseball game, blues music, Chinese food, among other things. For my inaugural sushi tasting we went to Sushi Revolution. Check out the pictures, but it's a trip! There is a conveyor belt that brings colored-coded-for-price plates of sushi around for you to choose. It's like Japanese dim sum. Next was taking in the Tacoma Rainiers game at Cheney stadium. Our timing was perfect, because just as we walked up to the ticket booth pre-game a gentleman was waving to reserved seat gold club member tickets he c...
Source: Milliner's Dream - July 2, 2008
Meet Allnurses.com
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This is Patricia. She graduated from nursing school in 1961. I found her picture in one of my old nursing school yearbooks. Check out those crazy cat eye glasses. I love her glasses as much as I love her cap. Patricia and I want to welcome my newest sponsor to Nurse Ratched's Place. Allnurses.com is a popular online meeting place for nurses. Learn about the latest trends in nursing by visiting allnurses.com, or have a conversation with over 287,671 nurses just by clicking on the widget located in my sidebar. Come join us at allnurses.com. Patricia and I will be looking for you.
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Source: Nurse Ratched's Place - July 2, 2008
Meet Allnurse.com
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This is Patricia. She graduated from nursing school in 1961. I found her picture in one of my old nursing school yearbook. Check out those crazy cat eye glasses. I love her glasses as much as I love her cap. Patricia and I want to welcome my newest sponsor to Nurse Ratched's Place. Allnurse.com is a popular online meeting place for nurses. Learn about the latest trends in nursing by visiting allnurse.com, or have a conversation with over 287,671 nurses just by clicking on the widget located in my sidebar. Come join us at allnurse.com. Patricia and I will be looking for you.
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Source: Nurse Ratched's Place - July 2, 2008
Grand Rounds Salutes Independence!
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Independence Day draws near and Dr. Rich over at The Covert Rationing Blog has dedicated this edition of Grand Rounds to anything that addresses issues pertaining to the Revolution!
Many thanks to Dr. Rich for including Emergiblog’s submission as I had spent the weekend attending Jeff Scott Soto concerts on business in LA and was just a wee bit late!
I did not realize this, but Dr. Rich has written a book entitled Fixing American Healthcare and you can purchase it on amazon.com or through the “Publish or Perish” site here. I’ve ordered it - I couldn’t resist the “Grand Unification Theory...
Source: Emergiblog - July 1, 2008 Authors: Kim Tags: Blog
Jed’s home set to get a DIY SOS ….
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And for those who haven’t met Jed.. he’s here. He is the Patron(ised) Saint of Madness and mascot of the Acute Mental Health Unit, apparently.
And on who’s authority is he getting a DIY SOS makeover?
Well for a start, I think Nick Knowles might be happy to be involved. He’s just condemned Reality TV shows for mocking the mentally ill… but that’s a whole other thread.
However, more illustriously, none less then the incumbent president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Dinesh Bhugra had this to say:
Britain’s most eminent psychiatrist has launched a powerful attack on ...
Source: Mental Nurse - July 1, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Mental Illness Treatment acute wards bhugra
In Which my Mother Bursts my Twitter Balloon
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ME: Did you read all my smartass comments on Twitter when you watched Hopkins the other night?
MOM: No, I don’t want to do Twitter.
ME: C’mon, it’s not that hard…
MOM: It’s just that… if you’re supposed to type in whatever you’re doing at any given moment, then wouldn’t you just say, ‘I’m sitting at my computer, typing into Twitter’ all the time?
Twitter just hasn’t been the same for me ever since. Thanks, Mom.
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Source: PixelRN - July 1, 2008 Authors: Beth
She may not get Twitter, but it doesn’t mean she’s not brilliant.
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So my Mom did watch Hopkins last week, even though she didn’t read my smartass remarks on Twitter. She did, however, end up making a very astute observation about one of the docs. Dr. Quinones, that God-like neurosurgeon, was actually at Bayview Medical Center, not Johns Hopkins Hospital. (For those of you not familiar with the Hopkins system, Bayview is a little hospital down the road that falls under the Hopkins umbrella. Many doctors practice at both facilities.)
I thought that when they were wheeling one of his patients out it looked like the Bayview lobby, but I wasn’t completely sure. My mom, however, was...
Source: PixelRN - July 1, 2008 Authors: Beth
Happiness: Discuss.
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This is a post about being happy.
Actually, it’s more a post about how you can become happy.
Well, really it’s a post about how Professor Layard (of the ‘bring on the 40,000 CBT psychologists‘ fame) knows we can all become happy.
Quite simply:
“Happiness is inversely related to income at higher levels of income because of the declining marginal utility of getting richer,”
See?
He continues to demonstrate:
“Let me show you.” He draws a graph: on the X axis is income per head, on the Y axis is average happiness. A curve ascends boldly and then tails off ignominiously. At the bo...
Source: Mental Nurse - June 30, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work cbt happiness moving to denmark
Vacation!
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Dear Readers,We will be on vacation from July 1st to July 6th. Thus, Digital Doorway will also have a rest.Be well, and please stop back next week for the continuing saga.....
Source: Digital Doorway - June 30, 2008
“hello, is this the emergency department?”
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Source: impactEDnurse - June 30, 2008 Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: the funnybone.
Quote of the week #5
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Man who has been waiting 30 minutes to have the cut on his thumb assessed: "You call this the emergency ward?! You should call it the death ward - you move so slowly that we'll all be dead before you get to us!"
Source: ~ Dust in the Wind ~ - June 30, 2008
do we speak good english in our emergency departments?
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A delicate topic.
How many times have you seen this scenario in your hospital ?
A doctor from a non-English speaking background with very a limited English vocabulary trying to take a medical history and perform a complex assessment on a patient from a different non-English speaking background who also has a very limited English vocabulary.
Exactly what sort of linguistoliptic therapeutic relationship is taking place here?
Many times I have seen doctors who have managed to progress through the medical system despite an exasperatingly poor ability to effectively communicate with their patients in English.
So, what sort of l...
Source: impactEDnurse - June 30, 2008 Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics
T’was the night before Christmas..
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Monday 30th June is the date for Darzi’s final report on proposed NHS reforms; the eve of the NHS 60th anniversary.
My Gosh! The ann…… tii….. cciiiiiiiiiii ………………………….
……… pation!
Personally, I’m so excited I was awake hours ago while everyone was still sleeping … but then it’s GMT +9hours in Oz and I had a lie-in.
Then I got bored waiting and read some comments on the Telegraph online page… like this one…
Sir - You report (January 30) that the University of California, Berkeley, has discovere...
Source: Mental Nurse - June 30, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work great stupid ideas in mental health
DLA should not be given to people with disabilities
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That’s the latest cry of the MoS:
That giant sucking sound you hear is the noise of money being vacuumed from the wages of productive workers into the pockets of dubious welfare claimants.
..writes a MoS journalist, who, by definition of his chosen career, is also a dubious claimant to being a productive member of society. It continues…
How can it be right for taxes to be used to subsidise alcoholics and drug abusers, in the guise of a questionable, inadequately monitored payment called ‘Disability Living Allowance’, which can be obtained without a doctor’s letter?
The same way a smoker can ge...
Source: Mental Nurse - June 30, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work alcohol DLA drugs welfare
Give Me Empathy or Give Me…Another Nurse
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Did you know there was actually a call for nurses in the Revolutionary War?
I found this blurb on the Women in the U.S. Army website, which is also where I found this poster.
I’ll reproduce it here, I have no actual author to credit, but the reference is the link above:
“Shortly after establishment of the Continental Army on 14 June 1775, Major General Horatio Gates reported to Commander-in-Chief George Washington that “the sick suffered much for want of good female Nurses.” General Washington then asked Congress for “a matron to supervise the nurses, bedding, etc.,” and for nurses ̶...
Source: Emergiblog - June 30, 2008 Authors: Kim Tags: Blog
Medical Assistant Online Training Special Report: Extreme Caution!
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Special Report: Extreme Caution!... "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." Saint Augustine
Those looking for a medical assistant school must first understand the meaning AND purpose of a good medical assistant program. Don't become one of those horror stories where students wind up with certificates, or diplomas that are completely worthless, and with
Source: Medical Assistant Net Blog - June 30, 2008 Authors: Danni R.
Reflections....
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Life moves along a trajectory and it often seems that one is simply along for the ride. However, as powerless as we may sometimes feel vis-a-vis our life's development, I feel certain that I must take full responsibility for how my life has grown and changed. Whether there are unseen forces at play or not, taking responsibility for my life is one way that I empower myself to reflect on the choices that I have made, not to mention the choices before me as I press forward.Nursing as a career was a conscious choice to work in a field that would provide me with a reliable income while also allowing me to serve others in a soul...
Source: Digital Doorway - June 29, 2008 Tags: nursing writing nursing identity
How to get 300,000 quid for not doing your job
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This is the sort of egocentric selfish inane inequity that gets on my tits.
A psychiatrist who released a mental patient who then stabbed a retired banker to death is suing for compensation.
Consultant Gill Mezey wants more than £300,000 from her employer for damage to her career.
Why did they suspend her?
Dr Mezey, 50, decided to let paranoid schizophrenic John Barrett out of hospital for an hour’s leave without even seeing him, in September 2004.
Barrett, then 43, immediately absconded, armed himself with kitchen knives and the following day attacked Denis Finnegan, 50, as he cycled through Richmond Park in South ...
Source: Mental Nurse - June 29, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work great stupid ideas in mental health
This week in mentalists… week 35 (I think)
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So Z is sunning it up in Bognor; and I have no idea how to do this having not undertaken a double degree and … as Doc C might put it… this is dumbing down of “This week in Mentalists”…. but somebody had to do it.
Apologies in advance for omissions, misquotes, forgetting your names, bad representations and wrongly attributing excerpts to someone who didn’t actually write it (a specialty of mine)…. Otherwise, please enjoy.
[All complaints in writing please to SWGAS@mentalnurse.org.uk.]
Pole to polar has another guide to living with mental illness:
So! The Psychiatrist has decided ...
Source: Mental Nurse - June 29, 2008 Authors: Mr Ian Tags: Passing Connection To Work this week in mentalists
Cannabis worse than the Nazis
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Professor Tom Booker, head of drug research at Glasgow’s Clyde University and the man who conducted the latest lengthy study into the drug, said:
“Yeah, whatever.”
A spokesman for the University said:
“The Nazi’s were very bad people but even they could not make a middle class white boy adopt dreadlocks for a hairstyle, or make a highly intelligent middle aged man crawl around the floor of his laboratory in his underpants weeping with laughter about nothing at all, and then eat his own weight in marshmallows.”
Following the promotion of cannabis to the top spot in the evilness rankings the top ten most evil thi...
Source: Mental Nurse - June 29, 2008 Authors: E Tags: Passing Connection To Work drugs
CSS in Blogger
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This is the my first attempt using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in a post. All credit goes to Dynamic Drive, and from what I can gather this post should display correctly in most browsers.When you pass your mouse over a thumbnail, a larger image will be displayed. I first started off creating this within Windows Live Writer and after pulling out half my hair attempting to get this right, I then published the post to my Blogger Blog. Unfortunately I hit a FEW hurdles as I hadn't used CSS in Live Writer before, but after some copying, pasting and deleting between the two, I put a few problems to sleep, permanently .To make t...
Source: St Vincent's Hospital Darlinghurst - Male Nurses - June 29, 2008 Authors: Peter
How The Nurse Practitioner's Place Was Born
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Kim at Emergiblog has put out a request for our very first blog post for Change of Shift. I have been blogging since Feb. 2005 (has it been that long?) I started blogging after I was googling some nurse practitioner information and stumbled upon a few NP blogs and noticed that there weren't very many of them out there on the net. My first posts consisted of answering questions like "What is a Nurse Practitioner?" etc. but further posting also included my aggravations of schooling and pictures of family life. I also tried to include some funnies on occasion. Imagine my surprise when I started to have regular readers (Lisa,T...
Source: The Nurse Practitioner's Place - June 29, 2008 Authors: Nurse Practitioners Save Lives
Impermanence
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Reflect on this: The realization of impermanence is paradoxically the only thing we can hold on to, perhaps our only lasting possession. It is like the sky, or the earth. No matter how much everything around us may change or collapse, they endure. Say we go through a shattering emotional crisis . . . our whole life seems to be disintegrating . . . our husband or wife suddenly leaves us without warning. The earth is still there; the sky is still there. Of course, even the earth trembles now and again, just to remind us that we cannot take anything for granted. . . .---Sogyal Rinpoche
Source: Digital Doorway - June 28, 2008 Tags: sogyal rinpoche
the patience of patients.
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Photo Credit: Mark Cummins
Patients in the waiting room just dont get it. And neither do we.
Lets explore this a little deeper.
But first, here is a great letter from Deana about something that every nurse who works in an ED experiences:
I would like to get your input on something that is troubling me about being in the hospital with patients. I currently am a senior in a bachelor of science nursing program in the States. I worked for two semesters as a care partner/patient care technician on a med/surg floor and then about 2 months ago, started working 1-2 shifts per week in an emergency dept. in a small community hosp...
Source: impactEDnurse - June 28, 2008 Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: reflective practice.
WATCHING THE SCALES...AGAIN
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My doctor has put me on yet another medication--this one for my cholesterol, which is dangerously high. Adding that to the diabetes and the kidney damage, my weight must come down. He wants me on a low-fat, high fiber diet, which sounds like such fun, but which is totally necessary to keep from having a fucking heart attack or stroke. So, I joined Weight Watchers (again) because it's the only thing that has ever worked for me in terms of real weight loss.
The thing with diabetes (Type 2) is, you can totally eradicate the disease by eating right, losing weight and exercising. I wouldn't have to swallow those enormous pill...
Source: Time for Your Meds - June 28, 2008 Authors: tracy at crazytracy.com Tags: HEALTH & FITNESS
