Category: nursing
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Don’t let your aspirin grow old
I’m going all nursy today. I have two things I want to talk about. 1. Go clean your medicine cabinet. A while back I was part owner of a very cool compounding pharmacy. I did all the PR , videos, blog, etc. I even produced a radio show. I wanted to do a segment called…
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Big Sugar Summit: Wolfram Alderson “Sugar is Toxic “
Big Sugar Summit: Wolfram Alderson “Sugar is Toxic ” “The only food item that isn’t on the label is added sugar.” Wolfram Alderson, Founding Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Nutrition I’m looking forward to the final video with all the slides but this will get you really excited about seeing the entire finished product. This…
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The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life.
The Florida Legislature Gags Health Care Workers. How not to save a life. Just file this under “Kick me in the head.” As well as others, like people who don’t want their houses to float away in Miami, or their drinking water to be all salty, or just us folks here in Stuart/Jensen Beach that…
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June is educate your legislators in mental illness month. I said so!
@joenegronfl who said http://fcir.org/2012/07/26/florida-slips-even-lower-in-mental-health-funding/ “More specifically, state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, advocated cuts to so-called soft services, which include mental health and drug-addiction programs, because many of these services address what Negon views as “a lack of willpower, a lack of discipline, a lack of character.” Negron was the chair of appropriations for health and human services…
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Nursing Ethics: Alcoholism , nurses, IPN, and “ego”
I think its very difficult when your not an alcoholic and you have you have to deal with people who are actively. It’s impossible to be around their behavoir especially when someone doesn’t go to AA and think they can do this themselves or think just not drinking is the answer. It’s even harder when…
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Volunteerism : Medical Reserve Corp : Here when you need us
Volunteerism 44% percent of American’s volunteer. I feel like all the work I do for the water is a full time job. It was great this week that I got to take a day off and do some training with my fellow Medical Reserve Corp volunteers. http://www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/emergency-preparedness-and-response/disaster-response-resources/mrc/ The Florida Medical Reserve Corps Network was established…
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Love a Nurse! Nurses week 2015
http://nursingworld.org/NationalNursesWeekHistory-2015 National Nurses Week History National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale’s Birthday http://www.biography.com/people/florence-nightingale-9423539#synopsis In the early 1850s, Nightingale returned to London, where she took a nursing job in a Middlesex hospital for ailing governesses. Her performance there so impressed her employer that Nightingale was promoted…
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Healthcare workers: Listen don’t judge
As a nurse, I get to interact with all kinds of patients. Many who make a full time job of going to the doctors. those who hate going to the doctors, those who go and don’t listen, those who go and follow all instructions to a t.As a patient. I’m a bad patient. Not really…
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and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make (paul mccartney)
I feel I need to tackle this any maybe someone somewhere will read it and be able to help someone. The only goodness that comes out of a suicide death of a friend or a family is perhaps one can gain a little knowledge and understanding. As a spiritual counselor and as psych rn sometimes…
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