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Airway management is a basic anesthetic responsibility and skill, and strategies need to be implemented to appropriately manage difficult airways, according to the Fourth National Audit Project (NAP4) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society, published online March 29 in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
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What ever happened to nurse's discretion? I know there are multiple threads on autonomy, but good god.
I feel as though the focus is so much on protocol and procedure as though you are acting as a robot vs. real critical thinking. Sometimes I want to scream at the top of my lungs, " Who gives a flying...
WCVB channel five Boston, is now airing, Healthcare Uncovered. A live panel show discussing healthcare and it's cost in Boston. The moderator, Timothy Johnson, MD. One of the panelist, Zane, the CEO of Tufts Medical Center whose 1100 RN's just voted 70%, to authorize a one day strike. This is what I just heard and this is verbatim.
"We may need fewer nurses in the hospital, but we will need more in the community, helping patients to stay healthy. so there maybe some modest job losses, I think there is a great opportunity to retrain caregivers in new professions."
Student Discussions
... that she will NEVER have to clean, feces, vomit, urine, blood, etc.!
Here's what happened: Today I was chatting with one of my fellow pre-nursing students - I asked her "Have you given any thought to the fact that you will be cleaning bodily fluids, etc. and how do you feel about that?"
She replied with this: "As an RN I will NEVER have to do that! That is what CNAs are for." So, I tried to explain to her that as far as I know and IMO EVERY RN has to do that at one time or another. She refuses to believe this and is convinced that I am wrong. Well, to all the nurses out there -- is there such a thing as a 'bodily fluid free' existence in nursing?
Regional Discussion - California
So I will be a new BSN RN Graduate this August from Michigan, and am really looking to relocate to San Diego and work as an RN there. I have heard some pretty good things about Scripps hospital, love the area, and would LOVE to work there, or anywhere I can get into for that matter.
Any tips or ideas that you think I should do before I take my boards in terms of trying to get a job there in San Diego?
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