Tag: nursing
member name: donna f.
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May 25, 2006 06:06 PM EDT --
Living in a Nursing home is expensive. The average cost of Long Term care in The U.S. is enough to break all but the most prosperous of us. On average, a semi private room in a home today runs between . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
For-Profits versus Non-Profits
In my twenty three years as a Nursing Home Nurse, I have spent the majority of my time in non-profit facilities, working in one, and traveling to numerous others as an . . .
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April 14, 2006 03:32 PM EDT --
Your Granny's Nurse: Dateline 2027
Life in the Nursing home has changed a great deal since I first started writing this column, way back in aught six. For me, the most major . . .
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May 04, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Being a nurse, dying is part of my everyday life. I see death in many forms. Quick and unexpected, slow and lingering, peaceful, and agonizing. Recognizing the signs of impending death are a learned . . .
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May 06, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
This is a reprint of the first article I ever posted to Gather, thus, largely unread. I am republishing to perhaps get some feedback
This morning, while meandering my way through the site, I saw a headline . . .
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May 16, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
I have to admit that this is not an original poem. I have read this to every Nursing Assistant class I have ever taught.
This was found among the meager belongings of an eighty nine year old, nursing . . .
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June 04, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Who gets to say "When"? When is enough, enough? Personally, I want to make that choice for myself. I do not have any desire to have my life held in the balance by anyone other than myself.
What . . .
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August 29, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
I am a pariah in my chosen field, Nursing. Do I care? Not a whit. In fact, I relish the role, and will tell anyone who asks why I chose to work in the dregs of the nursing profession, the (cue sinister . . .
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May 05, 2007 08:24 AM EDT --
Have you hugged your nurse today? If you have ever had a nurse show you compassion, explain away the fear, take a little more time, or "do it quickly", if thats what you needed, today is the . . .
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April 09, 2006 11:20 AM EDT --
"She called me the "F" word" Carol cried, as she exited Mrs. Griner's room. Tears were streaming down her usually rosy cheeks. It was almost expected. Mrs. . . .
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February 03, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
"A little SOB this am. O2 on @ 2l/m via n/c. r-24, p88, t-100.2.PO2 95% . LCTA. C/o h/a. APAP 650mg adm. for sl. T and comfort.PERRLA. Skin warm & dry, color pink, nailbeds blanch < . . .
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April 19, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
I wrote and published this to Gather in March 2007. It is one of my first articles I ever published.
Every so often, every nurse gets a patient who touches her (or his) soul in an unforgettable . . .
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March 18, 2006 10:20 AM EST --
This was the first piece I published on Gather, thus, it wasn't read by many. I'm reposting to maybe get a little feedback.
This morning, while meandering my way through . . .
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September 27, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
When I was in Nursing school. in 1982, I had an instructor who had the biggest crush on Paul Newman. Her name was Mrs. Enderle. She was a tiny birdlike woman, of about 5 feet nothing, and 90 pounds, if . . .
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June 07, 2009 10:09 AM EDT --
This is a story of love. True, honest-to-God, death- do-us-part-love. You know the kind of love I mean, the kind that we all hope to find one day, and that some never do.
This is the story . . .
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November 11, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Holidays in the nursing home can be a time of great joy, but YOU have to make it happen. No one wants to spend their holidays alone, with virtual strangers who are not their family. Unfortunately, . . .
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December 11, 2007 09:41 AM EST --
I'm doin' it, and its about damned time. Tomorrow I reenter the work force. I had been laid off in late July, and while I have enjoyed the time off, its time to get a real paycheck coming in again. . . .
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January 21, 2008 09:20 AM EST --
I found this little story in "ArcaMax Jokes" this morning, and unfortunately,I did not find it very funny. I found it more true than humerous. Please give it a read, and tell me what you think . . .
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June 28, 2008 09:50 AM EDT --
After the first trimester, a fetus has fingerprints. They will be unique only to him or her for their entire life. I researched this after it was mentioned in the movie "Juno"...its true. . . .
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July 09, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
"She called me the "F" word" Carol cried, as she exited Mrs. Griner's room. Tears were streaming down her usually rosy cheeks. It was almost expected. Mrs. Griner had been in the . . .
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