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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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September 14, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Dateline: 2027
Life in the Nursing home sure has changed a great deal since I first started writing this column, way back in aught six. For me, the most major change has been in the Nursing . . .
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September 20, 2008 11:15 AM EDT --
As some of you may remember, I spent last summer, the summer of 2007, that is, unemployed. The Nursing Home I had been working at closed due to being sold to a local University for the purpose of renovating . . .
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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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June 07, 2008 08:55 AM EDT --
Last week I wrote a piece about some freaky facts about our bodies. Several people commented on that article, clammoring for more, so here ya go folks, more nifty facts about our amazing bodies:
Original . . .
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June 02, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
With the recent news of an air traveler infected with Tuberculosis being isolated, TB is much in the news. I thought some of you may want a little background on the disease.
TB has been around for a millennia . . .
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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.
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September 12, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
I am having a hard time getting my mind around this one, folks, and I need your help.
In my almost 30 years as a nurse, I have some across some pretty interesting patients. I do my best to show empathy . . .
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