I wish I would have posted this below with the other testimony videos.
The man in this video has been a bedside nurse for 6 months. Now he is getting the hell out. Listen to him speak about what happens when you have 6 patients and one goes bad. Now remember that we have 10-15 patients per registered nurse in the UK and rarely a floating a charge nurse. On my ward we never have a floating charge nurse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpJ-icOk1I&feature=related
Take in what these people of saying and spread the word. I am so sick and tired of assholes who think nurses are leaving the bedside because they think they are "above" shit and piss. Shit and piss are probably the best and easiest part of the job when you are a hospital nurse. Those are not the reasons we leave.
BY THE WAY: If any of my dear readers are retired from the bedside nurses who cannot seem to get why today's nurses are freaking out over taking more than 6 patients please look at the testimony in my post below from nurses who trained when you did and are still at the bedside. If you are one of these people who think that the crux of the problem is that today's nurse training is "crap" you especially need to click on this link and get yourself an education.
I'll show you where the caring is when I pull my shoe out of your backside.
Have a great day ya all.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Anatomy Might Be Easier If You Know These Things In Advance
1. You don't have to know everything. I started hyperventilating when I saw my Netter's atlas for the first time, thinking I had to memorize everything on those plates. You don't. You are only responsible for a fraction of the material.
2. In anatomy lab, the body doesn't remain uh, organized. The body parts are all over the place! For instance, you are supposed to be identifying say... oh... a ureter. But the kidney has been displaced to XYZ location... possibly in the thoracic cavity or maybe just in a big pile of cadaveric nastiness on the table. So you don't have a point of reference... and you're thinking "Well, this could be the gonadal artery... or maybe some kind of crazy nerve... originally attached to... the posterior abdominal wall? the spleen? the stomach... no scratch that... wait, where's the damn kidneys? shit!" Mind you... this thinking process has to be completed in approximately 30 seconds while you are deciding which answer to write down.
3. Contact lenses + Anatomy lab = sad face. At least for me. My lab partners don't seem to have problems with their lenses, but mine feel horrible. The best way I can describe it is like getting icy-hot in your eye.
4. The better you know the theory of the body, the less time you have to spend in lab with the dead people. Lots of students spend tons of extra time in the lab reviewing things... and I initially went as well thinking I needed the practice. But I hated every minute of it. I hated the required time I had to spend in anatomy, let alone spending non-required time there. This block I couldn't bring myself to go in beyond the required dissections, and I thought for sure I was going to get my butt kicked on the practical... but I didn't. You can actually figure almost everything out if you have a working knowledge of what's what.... even sight unseen.
Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
St. Joseph Hospital has pioneered a new technology that improves breast cancer outcomes, decreases the amount of post-operative radiation required, preserves healthy breast tissue and increases patient comfort.The hospital remains at the forefront of medical innovation with the introduction of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT), one of the most advanced forms of radiation therapy available in the United States.
IORT delivers highly targeted beams of radiation directly to a tumor site during surgery. In addition to improving patient outcomes, this direct application improves patient comfort by preserving healthy tissue surrounding the tumor and reducing the amount of radiation patients may need after surgery. For patients and their families, this means less stress and more time for healing.Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) delivers highly targeted beams of radiation during surgery. Studies show that radiating the tumor site in the breast immediately following tumor resection reduces the risk of the cancer returning.
As Orange County’s first hospital to offer this innovative treatment during breast surgery, Stacey Fischer, Breast Program Nurse Navigator, is also available to assist you and your patients should you have any questions concerning IORT or the Breast Program. She can be reached at (714) 734-6233.
St. Joseph Hospital has pioneered a new technology that improves breast cancer outcomes, decreases the amount of post-operative radiation required, preserves healthy breast tissue and increases patient comfort.The hospital remains at the forefront of medical innovation with the introduction of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT), one of the most advanced forms of radiation therapy available in the United States.
IORT delivers highly targeted beams of radiation directly to a tumor site during surgery. In addition to improving patient outcomes, this direct application improves patient comfort by preserving healthy tissue surrounding the tumor and reducing the amount of radiation patients may need after surgery. For patients and their families, this means less stress and more time for healing.Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) delivers highly targeted beams of radiation during surgery. Studies show that radiating the tumor site in the breast immediately following tumor resection reduces the risk of the cancer returning.
As Orange County’s first hospital to offer this innovative treatment during breast surgery, Stacey Fischer, Breast Program Nurse Navigator, is also available to assist you and your patients should you have any questions concerning IORT or the Breast Program. She can be reached at (714) 734-6233.
The Daily Mail is so Fucked up.
This article is a few months old. I guess I am really slow. Definitely not as slow as the person who wrote the article below however.
I can't even begin to comment on this. It is so full of inaccuracies. Makes me weep when I realise that people actually believe this shit. No mention of the fact that the NHS runs acute 30 bed ward with 2 RNs who are scared shitless that someone will die because they couldn't be ten places at once. Their only help AT ALL is a couple of untrained kids who have no idea what is going on and wander around aimlessly wearing nurses' uniforms. A nurse in that position cannot be caring or focus on basic care without getting someone fucking killed get it? No mention of the fact that these are the wards where are elderly patients are sent. Sometimes I just find it all too painful to comment on in an articulate manner. No shit the patients think we are cruel can't be bothered, we are running past them faster than the speed of light.
And no Rona, we are not running around trying to play doctor and diagnose patients. We are not obsessed with the medical model of care...far from it kiddo.
Christ.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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