Showing posts with label emergency department nurses. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Maureen Sullivan RN, BSN, CEN, CDE: What Attracted You To The Field of Nursing? @MaureenSRN

Maureen Sullivan RN, BSN, CEN, CDE: What Attracted You To The Field of Nursing? "My parents told me I had decided by age 6 that I wanted to be a nurse. I love helping people, and seeing the amazing effects that a caring and compassionate nurse can make in a person's life."

Maureen Sullivan RN, BSN, CEN, CDE, Florida Nursing Entrepreneurs:"Registered Nurse x 30 years, with a focus on ER/Trauma. I have worked in a variety of roles, including ER 
Manager, Stroke Program Manager, Trauma Coordinator, and Director of Education. I just published my first book (!) on my nursing career ("Never Again"). It is a compilation of stories of patients I've cared for during my career. All true stories!"
E-mail Address: Maureen@MaureenSullivanRN.com 
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Emergency Department (ER, Casualty, Trauma) Nurses on: The #NurseFriendly #emergency #nursing #trauma #nursingstudents #nurses #healthcare

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Sharon Gauthier RN/MSN-iRNPA, Patient Advocate for You, LLC:"Our services coordinate care, educate patients and families, collaborate with your healthcare team and support your needs with a personal seasoned RN patient advocate. We do not provide hands on care and don't replace home care agencies. We are adjunct to your support system while expanding your resources to stay well. Relieving your stress is our expertise. We are your voice helping you navigate through the system. We tell your story and make sure someone listens. We are a well respected addition to your present healthcare team by your side throughout the system you are in, evaluating, collaborating, educating and supporting you and your family."
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Judi S. Brantley, RN BSN MEd. Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Charleston Medical Legal Consultants, South Carolina Legal Nurse Consultants, Nursing Entrepreneurs, Nurse-Owned Businesses:Charleston Medical Legal Consultants, LLC provides Case Analysis for Medical Malpractice cases. This includes, but not limited to:

  1. Inventory for necessary medical records
  2. Screening for merit
  3. Identify adherences to/deviations from Standards of Care
  4. Medical story
  5. Chronologies with Lexis Nexis CaseMap/TimeMap
  6. Rendering list of potential defendants
  7. Educate in medical questions
  8. Medical Research
  9. Assist in locating expert witnesses
  10. Charleston Medical Legal Consultants, LLC
    3575 Maybank Hwy., Suite D192
    Johns Island, South Carolina 29455
    Email Address: judibrantley@gmail.com
    http://www.legalnursingconsultant.com/charleston/

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    Carol J. Rhodes RN, LNC, Medical-Legal Remedies Inc (MLR):"Medical-Legal Remedies Inc (MLR) provides medical-legal Litigation Support Services for Legal Professionals that include Legal Nurse Consulting, Paralegal Litigation Support, a Medical Information Service called Virtual Legal Nurse and Medical Expert Referral Service for Attorneys, Insurance Companies, Hospital Risk Managers, Government, and Claims Management. MLR MLR's Paralegal Staff and Legal Nurse work together as a team to assist our legal clients with comprehensive medical-legal litigation issues and are committed to serve clients by offering our extensive experience and expertise to provide specialized high quality medical-legal litigation support services. By utilizing Medical-Legal Remedies Inc Paralegal/Legal Nurse Team allows the litigator to control costs and increase revenues while securing the competitive advantage with superior work products. So whether your firm or company needs a Paralegal, a Legal Nurse, or both - MLR will assist your firm or company with any medical-legal litigation case project."
    Carol J. Rhodes RN, LNC
    14286-19 Beach Blvd. #248
    Jacksonville, FL 32250
    (904) 223-3969
    Carol@JaxLegalNurse.com or Carol@VirtualLegalNurse.com
    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-j-rhodes/30/81b/685
    http://www.jaxparalegal.com/

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    Larry Snyder, BA, RN, DBA, RN.ORG, SA, Nursing Continuing Education Providers:"Larry Snyder, RN is the Founder and President of RN.ORG®, SA. As a licensed healthcare professional with over 15 years of experience in nursing as well as a computer authority with in-excess of 20 years of experience, he is knowledgeable with the integration of healthcare and computers and sees a strong need for licensed professionals to maintain their license in an easy, convenient, comfortable no stress environment. Larry has worked in various aspects of nursing in many states in both large and small hospitals and has the experience and background to make healthcare and nursing education friendly. Larry also functioned as a consulant at large corporations in various aspects of IT management including CBS Sports, Sportsline.com, Sports.com, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Flexsys and Monsanto. Larry also has served as an expert witness on several high profile cases throughout the United States sharing his valuable input as an experienced Emergency Room nurse."
    Latin America Office (Corporate Offices)
    Larry Snyder - RN.ORG®, SA
    CR 15A # 10A-03
    El Poblado, Medellin, Colombia
    Hospital Sales (English) USA: 1-954-369-4556
    Hospital Sales (EspaƱol - E.E.U.U): 1-860-786-1866
    E-mail Address: info@rn.org
    Blogs, Social Media (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, etc): http://www.facebook.com/MedellinRN
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    http://www.twitter.com/wwwRNorg
    Phone number: 954-369-4556
    Website: http://www.rn.org
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/snyder/

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    Jennifer A. Grisso, RN BSN LNC, GrissoMedLegal:"Experienced RN with recent experience in most areas including: Telemetry, Cardiac, CCU, Stepdown, MedSurg, ER, ICU, Ambulatory, Telephonic Triage, Telephonic Disease Management. We bridge the legal and medical world. We are involved in any type of litigation that involves injury or illness, to save you time and money on the medical record, research, chronology. Also we help you prepare for depositions, mediation, or trial, all at a lower cost than other medical professionals."
    Jennifer A. Grisso, RN BSN LNC
    GrissoMedLegal
    8640 Springfield
    Skokie, IL, 60076
    Phone: 847-204-2084
    Email: Jennifer@grissoinc.com
    Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferagrisso
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/Grissomedlegal
    http://grissomedlegal.com/

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    About Emergency Department Nurses:

    Emergency Nurse, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow:"Emergency nurses specialize in rapid assessment and treatment when every second counts, particularly during the initial phase of acute illness and trauma. Emergency nurses must tackle diverse tasks with professionalism, efficiency, and above all—caring. Emergency nursing is a specialty area of the nursing profession like no other. To provide quality patient care for people of all ages, emergency nurses must possess both general and specific knowledge about health care to provide quality patient care for people of all ages. Emergency nurses must be ready to treat a wide variety of illnesses or injury situations, ranging from a sore throat to a heart attack. There are approximately 90,000 emergency nurses in the US."
    Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow/STTI
    Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
    550 West North Street Indianapolis, IN 46202
    bennison@stti.iupui.edu
    http://www.nursesource.org/emergency.html


    Lucille "Lou" Addington, RN, CLNC, Florida:"We do medical-legal consulting for attorneys, insurance companies and HMO's, and private individuals. Presuit investigations and affidavits. Expert witness location. Special interest in vaccine damage cases and long term care/elder care issues. My associate and I bring a combined 42 years of professional nursing practice to our cases."
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/addington

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    Battistella Kasey BSN, Louisiana

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    Brady, Karen Bryant, RN, EMT/Paramedic Instructor, Kentucky
    http://www.nursefriendly.com/brady/

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    Bulfamante, Joyce, RN BSN, New York

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    Bykowski, David, Nurse Entrepreneur, Texas Nursing Entrepreneurs:"I have a great interest in holistic medicine I am questioned many times as to why I sell products My answer is simple to spread the holistic approach You may ask how selling products spreads the holistic approach Well I have found that I can preach holistic philosophy all day long and accomplish very little but if I can change a persons life via the use of a natural substance not only have I won them over but all the people they share their joy with. Thus I find selling products is more effective than merely preaching the benifits of holistic health."
    Specialty Areas: ER, ICU, Psych and Home Health
    http://www.nursefriendly.com/bykowski

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    Callueng, Ronel RN CCRN, Delaware, Nurse Entepreneur

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    Cari Caruso, RN SANE-A, Forensic Nurse Professionals, Inc., California Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Forensic Services: Forensic Sexual Assault, Evidentiary Exams for Victims and Suspects, Domestic/Interpersonal Violence evaluations and Photography, Consulting for Defense and Prosecuting Attorneys, Expert Testimony, Education."
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Circle of Life, by Jeff Reichardt RN, BSN, CNOR, CRNFA, CSA

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I am tired.
I work so hard.

But, lately, I have been especially overworked.

My career has many stresses in it that are inescapable.
When I started it, I knew I would not get rich.
I knew that this career was a difficult one.
I knew that respect from my fellow professionals was hard won.

I knew that this profession had an image problem with the public.
But I felt that I could make a difference.
I felt that I could be a positive influence on my chosen career.

I was wide-eyed and naive, I'll admit, but part of me wishes that reality was different.

Part of me wishes that I could take all of the positives I have received and cancel out all of the negatives.

As for the positives. I am thankful that I was able to give a life back to an 18 year old who is just now learning how to live with being a quadraplegic.

I feel honored to have been asked to share in the bedside prayer for a brain dead 12 year old victim of an accidental gunshot wound. That his family, in their grief, thought to include me, his caregiver, in their grieving process.

For those experiences, I am grateful.

For the physicians who took the extra time to ask for my thoughts about the care of OUR patient. I am grateful as well.

For the families of hundreds of patients who stopped me in the hall to say thanks, I now say thank you.

I say thank you because I am leaving bedside nursing.

I am tired of the politicking.
I am tired of the back-stabbing.

I am so tired of the kinds of people who bolster their own pitiful egos by debasing someone else's. This group is not at all limited to physicians, although some nurses would like to say so.

I am tired of feeling guilty when I turn down a request from my manager to stay late for "another emergency". (The fifth one this week.)

I am tired of not receiving the respect I deserve, from my co-workers especially, as they should be keenly aware of what it takes, mentally, physically and emotionally to perform this, my chosen career.

I am tired of hearing about the shortage of nurses.
I think it's a wonder that there are any left to practice when you consider my above negative statements.

I know I am burned out. It's a shame too. I consider myself to be a good bedside nurse.

I worry about the next trauma victim, and their family as well.
Who will take the time (or will they?) to address the total family's needs ?

Who will sit and hold the hands of the parents who have just signed the organ procurement papers on their brain dead child, and now hope that, in their grief, some good will come ?

Who will take care of the body of the infant that just died in the ICN ?

It won't be me...

I am tired...

I hurt...

I am not alone, but it doesn't help...

I feel empty inside...

I can no longer do this to myself or my family...

I'm leaving what I love, but how can I?

The truth is I can't.

So, you see,
I am refreshed.
I still work hard.

But, lately, I have been eager to work.

My career has many stresses in it that are inescapable.
When I started it, I knew I would not get rich financially.
But my rewards have been many, and much more than money can buy.

I knew that this career was a difficult one.

But I have always enjoyed a challenge.
I knew that respect from my fellow professionals was hard won.
But I forgot that respect was a two way street.

I knew that this profession had an image problem with the public.
But, for a long time, I was just as much a part of the problem as the people that I had come to disdain.

I realize now that I HAVE made a difference.

I am no longer wide-eyed and naive.
I am seasoned and a little wiser.

And , YES, the positives DO outweigh the negatives.

So, to all the patients, the families, the doctors and all my fellow workers, let me say thank you.

I can't leave bedside nursing.

I need to be there for the next trauma victim and their family.

I need to hold the hands of the parents of that brain dead child.

And yes, I DO need to take care of the body of that child that died in the ICN.

It's GOT to be me !

I am refreshed...

I am now whole...

I have not been alone...

I am fulfilled...

I owe it all to my wife and children...

They have reminded me that this is what life is all about.

It's about joy, pain, courage and sorrow.

It's about taking care of each other. Meeting each others needs.
It's about renewing life and dignifying death.
But most of all, it's about being human. With all our faults and frailties...
all our strengths and weaknesses....
with all our capacities for kindness and compassion....
all our hopes and dreams...

In the end, we still carry on. Some say it's through God's will. I don't know...

For me, it's because I cannot turn my back on my fellow MAN. It's as simple as that.

For, if we turn our backs on our fellows, we greatly diminish ourselves...

Jeff Reichardt RN, BSN, CNOR, CRNFA, CSA
Cincinnati, Ohio

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Disaster Relief Nursing - Articles Archive - RN Jobs, Nursing Articles, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino

Serving as a disaster relief nurse can be a life-changing experience. It is a challenging undertaking, and not everyone is physically, emotionally or professionally prepared to assume such a role, be it short- or long-term in nature. But for those who can, the rewards are many.

Some nurses work full time for organizations whose only mission is to assist in relief efforts, while other nurses volunteer when disaster strikes, such as the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Being deployed to such areas can be disorienting and overwhelming. Volunteers may face primitive conditions, lack of running water, inadequate food and shelter and any number of challenges. Although deployed nurses may expect to be utilized clinically, they may sometimes find themselves taking out trash, sweeping a floor, distributing clothing or leading support groups.

A Nurse Practitioner With a Mission

Betty Woods, a family nurse practitioner from Sonoma County, has an impressive disaster relief resume. In her daily life, she volunteers as a family nurse practitioner for the Jewish Community Free Clinic in Rohnert Park, Calif.; in her weekly life she also takes part in construction projects for Habitat for Humanity.

Woods has staffed Red Cross shelters in Northern California during periods when the Russian River caused widespread flooding and devastation, and she has served in many crucial capacities in troubled areas around the world.

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Katherine Quinby (QuinbyRN) on Twitter

Katherine Quinby

Katherine Quinby

@QuinbyRN Beautiful Northwest Oregon
I am a critical care nurse in the ED, retired paramedic fire fighter.Working on my business as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant.

Quinby Legal Nurse Consulting
PO Box 55183 Portland, OR 97238
phone 541.556.0099 fax 503.961.1850
https://twitter.com/#!/QuinbyRN
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Monday, April 11, 2011

McDonald's Medicine: Too Impatient to Wait for Care, Time

Doctor asks, "Why did you come to the ER today?"

This question — emphasizing today is common practice in emergency departments — helps us figure out how urgent a patient's illness might be. But it's a loaded question. Rephrased, it could easily mean, "Do you really believe you are seriously ill, or is it just that you couldn't wait to see a regular doctor?"

Behind the sanctimony is a clichĆ©: McDonald's medicine. Spend time in a busy ER and you'll hear a recurrent theme among the harried staff: patients in the U.S. want their health care like they want their food — served up speedily and made "your way." According to the conventional wisdom among medical professionals, overcrowding in the ER is exacerbated by America's culture of instant gratification. (See Healthland's 5 rules for good health in 2011.)

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With the high value we put on Instant Gratification, have to say they have a point here.

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Should Emergency Departments Turn Away Nonurgent Patients? - TIME

A few weeks ago, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) launched a campaign to derail proposed policies to reduce the use of emergency departments (EDs). ACEP's problem with the campaign is the logic that underpins it: policymakers think that ED use, in aggregate, is a costly problem and a major driver of unnecessary health care costs in the U.S. ACEP claims that rather than delivering unnecessary care, EDs treat many patients who have no alternative when they need comprehensive medical care in a timely manner; that is, EDs deliver altogether necessary care.

ACEP has challenged reports from South Carolina and Massachusetts suggesting that a high percentage of ED use is unnecessary and that reform efforts — particularly payment incentives — will reduce "inappropriate" usage. In South Carolina, a state legislator, Representative Bill Herbkersman, even recommended that special call boxes be placed in the homes of more than 3,000 Medicaid patients to give them 24-hour access to nurses who could diagnose them over the phone and reduce costly and unnecessary ED visits. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia has also increased the co-pay on ED visits from $100 to $200 and has been steering its members away from EDs to urgent-care centers and retail clinics (with the help of a Google Maps application, soon be available as an app for members' mobile phones).

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Andrew Lopez, RN
Nursefriendly, Inc. A New Jersey Corporation.
38 Tattersall Drive, Mantua New Jersey 08051
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856-415-9617, (fax) 415-9618

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Dan Weberg (NurseDan) on Twitter

Dan Weberg

Dan Weberg

@NurseDan Phoenix, AZ
ER Nurse, masters degree in healthcare innovation, PhD student health innovation, Own innovation business, changing the world.

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Dan Weberg

@ @ need to set up a call to chat about healthcampAZ. Got buy in from MHI director to do during one immersion weekend

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Mark Scrimshire
by NurseDan

@ and I are planning healthca.mp/radio to host a healthca.mp/ct @ recap on Wednesday 4/6/11 8p ET/5p PT

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Back from vacation weekend in SD. Loved the tweets of . Awesome conversations.

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Dan Weberg

I'm in! RT @: @ Phebe Real passion (not policy) = co-create a community committed to "Sustainable Health"

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Dan Weberg

Listen to "ACO Watch A Mid Week Review A Roun..." hosted by ACOwatch on 4/1/2011 2:00 PMMDT

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Friday, March 18, 2011

Emergency Department (ER, Casualty, Trauma) Nurses on: The Nurse Friendly

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Larry Snyder, BA, RN, DBA, RN.ORG, SA, Nursing Continuing Education Providers:"Larry Snyder, RN is the Founder and President of RN.ORG®, SA. As a licensed healthcare professional with over 15 years of experience in nursing as well as a computer authority with in-excess of 20 years of experience, he is knowledgeable with the integration of healthcare and computers and sees a strong need for licensed professionals to maintain their license in an easy, convenient, comfortable no stress environment. Larry has worked in various aspects of nursing in many states in both large and small hospitals and has the experience and background to make healthcare and nursing education friendly. Larry also functioned as a consulant at large corporations in various aspects of IT management including CBS Sports, Sportsline.com, Sports.com, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Flexsys and Monsanto. Larry also has served as an expert witness on several high profile cases throughout the United States sharing his valuable input as an experienced Emergency Room nurse."
Latin America Office (Corporate Offices)
Larry Snyder - RN.ORG®, SA
CR 15A # 10A-03
El Poblado, Medellin, Colombia
Hospital Sales (English) USA: 1-954-369-4556
Hospital Sales (EspaƱol - E.E.U.U): 1-860-786-1866
E-mail Address: info@rn.org
Blogs, Social Media (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, etc): http://www.facebook.com/MedellinRN
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http://www.twitter.com/wwwRNorg
Phone number: 954-369-4556
Website: http://www.rn.org
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Jennifer A. Grisso, RN BSN LNC, GrissoMedLegal:"Experienced RN with recent experience in most areas including: Telemetry, Cardiac, CCU, Stepdown, MedSurg, ER, ICU, Ambulatory, Telephonic Triage, Telephonic Disease Management. We bridge the legal and medical world. We are involved in any type of litigation that involves injury or illness, to save you time and money on the medical record, research, chronology. Also we help you prepare for depositions, mediation, or trial, all at a lower cost than other medical professionals."
Jennifer A. Grisso, RN BSN LNC
GrissoMedLegal
8640 Springfield
Skokie, IL, 60076
Phone: 847-204-2084
Email: Jennifer@grissoinc.com
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferagrisso
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Grissomedlegal
http://grissomedlegal.com/

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About Emergency Department Nurses:

Emergency Nurse, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow:"Emergency nurses specialize in rapid assessment and treatment when every second counts, particularly during the initial phase of acute illness and trauma. Emergency nurses must tackle diverse tasks with professionalism, efficiency, and above all—caring. Emergency nursing is a specialty area of the nursing profession like no other. To provide quality patient care for people of all ages, emergency nurses must possess both general and specific knowledge about health care to provide quality patient care for people of all ages. Emergency nurses must be ready to treat a wide variety of illnesses or injury situations, ranging from a sore throat to a heart attack. There are approximately 90,000 emergency nurses in the US."
Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow/STTI
Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
550 West North Street Indianapolis, IN 46202
bennison@stti.iupui.edu
http://www.nursesource.org/emergency.html

Lucille "Lou" Addington, RN, CLNC, Florida:"We do medical-legal consulting for attorneys, insurance companies and HMO's, and private individuals. Presuit investigations and affidavits. Expert witness location. Special interest in vaccine damage cases and long term care/elder care issues. My associate and I bring a combined 42 years of professional nursing practice to our cases."
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/addington

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Battistella Kasey BSN, Louisiana

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Brady, Karen Bryant, RN, EMT/Paramedic Instructor, Kentucky
http://www.nursefriendly.com/brady/

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Bulfamante, Joyce, RN BSN, New York

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Bykowski, David, Nurse Entrepreneur, Texas Nursing Entrepreneurs:"I have a great interest in holistic medicine I am questioned many times as to why I sell products My answer is simple to spread the holistic approach You may ask how selling products spreads the holistic approach Well I have found that I can preach holistic philosophy all day long and accomplish very little but if I can change a persons life via the use of a natural substance not only have I won them over but all the people they share their joy with. Thus I find selling products is more effective than merely preaching the benifits of holistic health."
Specialty Areas: ER, ICU, Psych and Home Health
http://www.nursefriendly.com/bykowski

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Callueng, Ronel RN CCRN, Delaware, Nurse Entepreneur

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Cari Caruso, RN SANE-A, Forensic Nurse Professionals, Inc., California Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Forensic Services: Forensic Sexual Assault, Evidentiary Exams for Victims and Suspects, Domestic/Interpersonal Violence evaluations and Photography, Consulting for Defense and Prosecuting Attorneys, Expert Testimony, Education."
Specialty Areas:

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http://nursefriendly.posterous.com

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Sincerely,

Andrew Lopez, RN
Nursefriendly, Inc. A New Jersey Corporation.
38 Tattersall Drive, Mantua New Jersey 08051
http://www.nursefriendly.com info@nursefriendly.com ICQ #6116137
856-415-9617, (fax) 415-9618

150,000 + Nurse-Reviewed & Approved Nursing Links

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http://www.legalnursingconsultant.com
http://www.nursinghumor.com
http://www.nursefriendly.com
http://www.nursingcasestudy.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com
http://www.nursingexperts.com