Month: May 2008
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A “Former Nurse” isn’t a Nurse
Saw this headline show up on the “Twitter on Nurses” section of OX3: Nurse Charged With Injecting Patients With Bleach Basically, a former nurse, working at a DaVita Dialysis Center, injected two of her patients with bleach. Pretty horrific. I’m wondering why Davita hired a “former” nurse to work in a dialysis center. Must be…
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MICU vs Recovery Room: A Comparison
I’ll bet some of you are going to hate me for saying this, but nursing isn’t such a bad job when you only do it part-time. And recovery room nursing isn’t so bad either, even though I’ve complained about it in the past. All it took was one shift back in the MICU to make…
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Ready or snot, here we come!
Question: What do Respiratory Therapists do for fun? Answer: Compete in the Texas Sputum Bowl. via holaolah See what interesting posts you can find by using twitter? ( ;
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Nurses on Twitter, Twitter on Nurses
Why would a nurse want to use twitter? First things first, what is twitter? Quite simply, it’s a microblogging tool. Think you have something witty/amusing/relevant to say and can get it in under 140 characters? Then twitter is for you. Want to connect with a community of people without having to write long, drawn out…
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Breathing New Life into OrientedX3
If you go take a look at Orientedx3, you’ll see I’ve been performing some much needed CPR on it. It’s definitely a work in progress, as there is much to be done as far as the style and substance are concerned. But I thought it would be great if all of you out there could…
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EKG Interpretation: The Tap Dance Way
Check out this cute video of University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing faculty and students demonstrating the art of EKG interpretation through tap dancing. Now if they could throw a Wenckebach in there, I’d really be impressed. (via Beka at Medscape Nurses) It was recently brought to my attention by my dear friend Max that…