Saturday, February 26, 2011

10 ways you know there's a male nurse on the unit, Scrubsmag.com

So, how can you tell when there’s a male nurse in the house?

10. The Hoyer lift is thought of as the backup option.

9. Someone at the nurses’ station isn’t wearing a print top.

8. You no longer call Dr. Strong at the first sign of need.

7. You find yourself with a box of gigantic gloves and wonder where the smaller ones went.

6. Conversations based on sports have somehow infiltrated the unit.

5. Somebody left a burger and fries on the table, where you struggle to convince yourself a salad is fulfilling.

4. Patient assignments are frequently changed after you have taken report and made your first round.

3. A patient keeps calling your co-worker “Doctor” regardless of how many times she is corrected.

2. This complaint becomes familiar: “There are no XL gloves here and they were ordered just for me.”

1. Someone left the toilet seat up in the nurses’ lounge restroom.

This list, by Jeffrey Bodurka, RN

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Why Cats Are Better Than Men, Battles of The Sexes Jokes, Cat-Pet Humor, 4Nursing.com, Nursing & Healthcare Resources

A CAT always hits the litter box.

Better chance of training a CAT.

No matter what your CAT drags into your house, you don't have to pretend you like it.

You never have to spend time with your CAT's mother.

If you ask enough times, a CAT may actually listen to you.

A CAT purrs when you serve him dinner.

You can de-claw a CAT... try to get a guy to clip his toenails.

It's okay if a CAT rubs up against your best friend.

You don't have to worry about your CAT turning into a pig when you host a party.

A CAT knows you're the key to his happiness... a man thinks he is.

If a CAT jumps into your lap, a little light petting will satisfy him.

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25 Year Old Breasts, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor:
http://www.4nursing.com/humor-battle-of-the-sexes-25-year-old-breasts.html

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Top Ten Reasons Why God Created Eve, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Top Ten Humor:
http://www.nursinghumor.com/created

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17 Ways To Be A WOMAN.... From A Somewhat Bitter Man, Battle of The Sexes:
http://www.nursinghumor.com/

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The Perfect Man, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/battle.of.the.sexes.a.divorced.perfect.man.htm

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Name Calling, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
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A Real Lady, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Infidelity Humor:
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A Woman Thirty Years Younger, Marriage Jokes, Battle of the Sexes Humor:
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/marriage.matrimony.wedding.jokes/a.woman.thirty.years.younger.htm

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Mating Bulls, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor
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Five Kinds of Sex, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor:
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Men Are Like . . ., Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
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Following Orders, Battle of the Sexes Jokes, Gallows Humor:
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Top Fourteen Things PMS Stands For, Top Ten Jokes, Battle of The Sexes Humor:
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The Escapee, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/battle.of.the.sexes.the.escapee.htm

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Why Pumpkins Are Better Than Men, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/battle.of.the.sexes.why.pumpkins.are.better.than.men.htm

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The Blind Date, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Geriatrics Humor:
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The New Girlfriend, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
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Pros of Being A Woman, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
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If You Love It, Set It Free, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor:
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A Divorced Woman's Perfect Breakfast, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Divorce Humor
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/battle.of.the.sexes.a.divorced.womans.perfect.breakfast.htm

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How To Impress, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/battle.of.the.sexes.how.to.impress.htm

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Great Female Comebacks, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
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His and Her Road Trip, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
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Generation Gap, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Parenting Humor
http://www.nursinghumor.com/humor/parenting.parents.jokes.generation.gap.htm

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And You Wonder "Why" It Didn't Last, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Divorce Humor
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Because I'm A Guy, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
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The Gentleman On The Bus, Battle of The Sexes Jokes & Humor
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If Men Got Pregnant, Battle Of The Sexes Jokes, Pregnancy Humor
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A Man, His Wife, and The Cop, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor
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If Men Wrote The Rules, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
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What Women Know About Men, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor
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All Wives Are Alike, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor
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A Woman Thirty Years Younger, Marriage Jokes, Battle of the Sexes Humor
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Radar, Battle of The Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor
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Definitely Warm, Battle of the Sexes Jokes, Relationship Humor
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Suspicions, Battle of the Sexes Jokes, Marriage Humor
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I Just Want You To Hold Me Tonight
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A Dictionary of Dating
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Translating Men, What They Say & What They Really Mean:
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I am glad I am a man, I am glad I am a woman:
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Two Gifts For Adam & Eve, Battle of The Sexes, Nursing & Medical Jokes & Humor
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Why Men Can't Win
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Why We Appreciate Men, A Woman's Perspective
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Viagra Funnies
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Military Nursing, nursingdiscussions.com:"I am an RN and have ten years of prior military experience (enlisted). I am seriously considering going back into the military as a nurse. If you are a military nurse, active duty or very recently retired, let me know. I'm looking for info on what a duty day is like, what shift work is like, how many days a week is a duty week, what is staffing like, is the equipment from the stone ages, etc etc. My interest is really in the Air Force since i could apply my critical care focus in flight nursing at some point. I'd like to hear from anyone with knowledge of the military nurse world, though."
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No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II by Diane Burke Fessler, Dianne Burke Fessler:"No Time For Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and... Read more."

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July, 2001: Recruitment And Retention Strategies For Nurses, Veterans Health Administration:"Registered nurses comprise the largest segment of health care workers within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Currently, VHA employs over 35,000 registered nurses and nurse anesthetists. VA nurse employment is stable at this time. VA enjoys a lower turnover rate (9.5 percent in 2000) than the national average of 15%. However, VA is experiencing difficulty in recruiting nurses with certain special qualifications such as intensive care, nurse practitioners or nurse anesthetists. While the difficulties are occurring nationwide, the types of nurses for which there are shortages vary by geographical region. Certain VA medical centers also report difficulties recruiting Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistants (NAs)."
http://www.va.gov/OCA/testimony/svac/14je01TG.asp

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Angels of Mercy: Nurses' Tales:"During every major battle of World War II, the D-Day invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge included, American nurses stationed near the front lines were charged with mending the wounded bodies and spirits of fighting soldiers. Their effectiveness and devotion to duty contributed greatly to the success of America's military forces. Here are a few of their stories."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/sfeature/sf_dispatches.html

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Bibliography of Military Nurses in Viet Nam:
http://www.illyria.com/nursebib.html

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Civil War Nurses "The Angels of the Battlefield":"William Ludwell Sheppard's watercolor In the Hospital, 1861 (above) pays tribute to those women of the South who labored ceaselessly to care for the war's wounded. "I have never worked so hard in all my life and I would rather do that than anything else in the world," declared one weary attendant."
http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarnurses.htm

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Military Nursing Resource Guide, Medi-Smart's Directory of Military Nursing Resources:"Although the tradition of alleviating the sufferings of soldiers is an old one, military nursing had its beginnings in the Crimean War when Florence Nightingale began organizing battle nursing and the dispatch of women as nurses. Military nurses have served as bright examples in courage and leadership. Nursing in the military has its good points and its added risks, but having been there and done that during Vietnam and Desert Storm, I have to say that the rewards far exceeded the drawbacks in my opinion. A military nurse has much more scope of practice than allowed by any state's nurse practice acts and the opportunities to further one's education are beyond compare. Here are some links to sites & information you might find useful."
http://www.medi-smart.com/nursing-articles/nursing-careers/military-nursing

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Program for Research in Military Nursing: Progress and Future Direction, Committee on Military Nursing Research, Institute Of Medicine:"High-quality nursing care is essential to obtain favorable patient outcomes. Military nursing research has the capacity to prevent health problems, improve patient care, and contribute to appropriate and desirable outcomes that are cost-effective in many situations. In the last 45 years, considerable progress has been made in wide-ranging applications of research in military nursing. Unarguably, however, further evolution and programs of military nursing research will depend on enhanced scholarly inquiry by military nurses and on the dissemination and application of research results."
http://search.nap.edu/html/nursing/

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Air Force:

Air Force Nursing Specialties:"The Air Force Nurse Corps offers a variety of specialties from Anesthesia to Pediatrics. You may enter with specialized experience or you may get experience after joining our health care team. Each program offers you an opportunity for certification or an advanced degree."
http://www.airforce.com/opportunities/healthcare/careers/nursing/

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International Military Nurses:

Vivian Bullwinkel, AO; MBE;ARRC; ED; FNM; FRCNA:"Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor when the Japanese massacred 21 army nurses and one elderly civilian woman on Banka Island, now part of Indonesia. She was taken POW and survived the hell camps of Sumatra, going on to become one of Australia's most distinguished women."
http://www.angellpro.com.au/Bullwinkel.htm

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Medicaid chief: Single payer may be better than ‘devil-may-be’ market

A senior Patrick administration health care official said Friday that a single payer system may work more effectively and efficiently than Massachusetts’s existing insurance market, a high-profile endorsement that raised eyebrows at a legislative hearing.

“I like the market, but the more and more I stay in it, the more and more I think that maybe a single payer would be better,” said Terry Dougherty, director of MassHealth – the state-run Medicaid plan that insures nearly 1.3 million Massachusetts residents – when lawmakers asked for his “personal view” on a single payer system.

Dougherty’s comment, made during a budget hearing at the Boston Public Library, prompted his boss, Secretary of Health and Human Services JudyAnn Bigby, to interject: “That’s his personal opinion.”

Dougherty noted that MassHealth, by far the largest program in state government, spends just 1.5 percent of its $10-billion-a-year budget on administrative costs – compared to about 9.5 percent by the private market, according to studies by the state Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. That figure won plaudits from several lawmakers on the panel, including some who have supported implementing a statewide single payer system.

After his remarks, Dougherty told the News Service that he’s learned to appreciate “elements of single payer” during his 30 years in health care.

“It’s got to be better than this devil-may-be marketplace,” he said. “We don’t build big buildings. We don’t have high salaries. We don’t have a lot of marketing, which makes, to some extent, some of the things that we do easier and less costly than some things that happen in the marketplace. Overall, my point is, we have individuals who work in state government in MassHealth ... who are just as smart, just as tactile, just as creative as people who work in the private sector, but they work for a lot less money.”

A single payer system would replace the state’s patchwork of nonprofit and private insurers with a single, public insurer through which all health care dollars would flow to hospitals, doctors and other health care providers. Supporters say it would eliminate administrative waste and ensure that all residents receive adequate coverage.

But while supporters point to single payer models used by other countries and tout the idea as a cost saver, critics warn the system would result in government bureaucrats deciding what services to cover and how to pay for them, would reduce the quality of care and would disrupt relationships between doctors and patients.

Hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents have endorsed the approach. In fact voters in 14 House districts –including five that backed Scott Brown for U.S. Senate – voted overwhelmingly last year to support a non-binding ballot question that asked, “Shall the state representative from this district be instructed to support legislation that would establish health care as a human right regardless of age, state of health or employment status, by creating a single payer health insurance system like Medicare that is comprehensive, cost effective, and publicly provided to all residents of Massachusetts?”

A similar question passed in 10 other House districts in 2008.

Although last session 50 members of the Legislature supported a single payer model, the issue has lacked support from the upper echelons of the Legislature and the Patrick administration.

A single payer plan would scrap Massachusetts’s landmark health care system, which relies on the private insurance marketplace, and that backers have credited with helping insure about 98 percent of the population. Backers of the existing structure, while acknowledging that health care costs have continued to climb, note that the state has covered about 430,000 residents since the inception of health care reform in 2006. Individuals are required to purchase health insurance, and low-income residents without access to health care through their employers may obtain partially or fully-subsidized care through the state’s Connector Authority, an exchange that pairs consumers with private plans, or through MassHealth.

This session, only 32 members signed on to the single payer proposal, although the sponsors include several high-ranking lawmakers: Rep. Stephen Kulik, vice chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Rep. Martha Walz, assistant vice chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Reps. Ellen Story and Byron Rushing, members of Speaker Robert DeLeo’s upper leadership team; and eight House committee chairs. The bill’s lead sponsors are Rep. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) and Sen. James Eldridge (D-Acton). Last session’s lead sponsor, Rep. Matthew Patrick (D-Falmouth) was ousted at the polls by Republican David Vieira.

Benjamin Day, executive director of Mass Care, a single payer advocacy group, noted that only six of the lawmakers in the 14 House districts whose voters endorsed single payer health care signed onto the bill. He asserted that many members of state government’s health care hierarchy support single payer health care but keep it to themselves.

“Everyone is making political considerations, tactical considerations,” he said.

Day said supporters of a single payer system are eyeing Vermont, which recently elected a Democratic governor who ran on a platform that included a single payer system.

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Friday, February 25, 2011

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  In this group, you'll find Nursing, Physicians, Experts and Health Professionals ready to answer consumer questions regarding health and medical conditions. Have you just been diagnosed? Are you trying to deal with a family member's illness or would just like to know more about it? We can help and you'll find your questions and situations are all too familiar to us. We've been there, we've dealt with it. Let us help you through this. In this group, you'll also find nursing experts, available to lend assistance to attorneys, and other professionals looking to make sense of a medical situation.  
 
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Counselor 4U
Counselor - Analytical Therapist Details
4.5 stars
(561)
$1.50  
per min.
   Call Now
nursefriendly
Starting A Nursing Agency Details
5 stars
(4)
$0.50  
per min.
   Call Now
FIGHTCF
cystic fibrosis support for families and paitents Details
No Feedback
(-2)
$1.25  
per min.
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nursefriendly
Ask A Registered Nurse, Find Answers Quickly Details
5 stars
(-21)
$0.29  
per min.
   Call Now
Clear Think
Substance Abuse and Dependency Details
3 stars
(1)
$1.99  
per min.
   Call Now - Alerts On
Anestea
Personal & Life style Consultant: Love SELF & LIFE Details
Not
Rated
$1.95  
per min.
   Call Now - Alerts On
holisticnurse
Solving the Interstitial Cystitis Puzzle Details
4.5 stars
(65)
$1.63  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
About Senior Health
Health Information For Older Adults Details
5 stars
(31)
$2.25  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
SpiritualAdvisor
I'm O.K. You are OK Details
4.5 stars
(7)
$1.75  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
mitchell Wallick
Beating Addictions Details
5 stars
(5)
$1.00  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
drummerkeith
Personal and Medical Advice on Sexual Relationships Details
No Feedback
(3)
$0.75  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
mbolen
Get medical ans from an RN, >15 yrs exp Details
No Feedback
(3)
$1.50  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
drummerkeith
Secrets To Understanding Women From A Male Nurse Details
Not
Rated
$0.75  
per min.
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puff84
RN with metaphysical healing abilities Details
Not
Rated
$1.02  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
mbolen
Diseases of the Kidney (RN) Details
Not
Rated
$1.50  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
MF1228
Infertility and pregnancy loss Details
No Feedback
(0)
$1.50  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
Counselor Dawn
Dealing with difficulties - I'm experienced Details
No Feedback
(0)
$0.70  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
Anursestouch
Tips on How not to Sweat the Small Stuff in Life Details
No Feedback
(0)
$4.50  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
Ask-a-Nurse
Back and Neck Nursing Advisor Expert Details
Not
Rated
$2.00  
per min.
   Away - Arrange A Call
Registered Nurse on Call
Male Registered Nurse on Call 24/7 for You Details

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