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Color Theory: Anemia

     This week, it seemed all of our patients required blood transfusions. They came in with similar symptoms: fatigue, shortness of breath on exertion (SOB or dyspnea), headaches, and low hemoglobins,...

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Aftermath of the Eric Cropp Sentence: Will the Criminalization of Medication...

     Although medication errors are not the focus of this blog, I feel it’s important that health care professionals know what is occurring in the state of Ohio, in the aftermath of the Eric Cropp...

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Mandatory Flu shots for Healthcare Workers Criticized in New York

     Today’s New York Times has an article supporting the right of that city’s health care workers to refuse both the seasonal  and H1N1 vaccinations. It brings up some very good points, like the...

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Just Because You’re Big Enough to Hold Still (patients, pain & procedures)

    I still experience culture shock, since my transfer from pediatric intensive care to outpatient adult oncology nursing , over the difference in sedation use during procedures for pediatric and...

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Happy Birthday JParadisi RN’s Blog!

     Today, January 10, 2010 is the first year anniversary of JParadisi RN’s Blog. I had no idea I would enjoy blogging so much. Or  that the blog would receive recognition from readers, other...

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Texas Nurses Accused of Harrassment in Whistle Blower Case

No one is free when others are repressed. Don't Tell (study) JParadisi 2009                                                           attributed to Mahatma Gandhi      For a couple of years, I worked...

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A Metaphor: Health Care Reform on Life Support

oil on wood (2008) artist: JParadisi      The idea that the Health Care Reform bill is on life support is disappointing, but not surprising. It was admitted in a weakened state of health. It appears...

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Who’s Flying the Plane?

We've Gotten Off Track photo: JParadisi 2009        Perhaps a change of nomenclature is needed in health care.  Physicians should be called Pilots, and nurses renamed First Officers, like in the...

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Update on Vicki Galle & Anne Mitchell Whistle-Blowing Case

     (study) JParadisi 2010     I recently posted Texas Nurses Accused of Harassment in Whistle Blower Case  about Vicki Galle and Anne Mitchell, two nurses accused of intent to do harm by reporting a...

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Tells: Artists, Nurses, 7-Inch Stilettos and What to Wear to Work

This is Crazy Nurse Shoes photo: JParadisi 2010 Artists and poker players learn to read “tells.” Tells are little gestures and habits that inform (tell) an observer how an artist made a painting or...

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