Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Nov 4, 2009, 10:31 am
Yesterday before heading into the ER for work I was watching the movie Outbreak. The story line deals with an outbreak of the dreaded Motaba virus that has infected an entire town in the US and is qu...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Nov 3, 2009, 1:46 pm
One of the many stories being broadcast by CNN this afternoon discussed the ethics surrounding the issue of providing the H1N1 vaccine to the "detainees" in Cuba. The vaccine will not be given to eve...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Nov 2, 2009, 8:10 am
With age comes responsibility, and for most of us this isn't a problem. We accept the things that life throws at us both good and bad and we deal with them to the best of our own abilities. But ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 29, 2009, 8:49 am
Perception is reality. How many times have we all heard this, likely countless times. In business perception plays a pivotal role in customer relations, both internal and external. Health care bein...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 28, 2009, 8:45 am
Gaining access to care in a local emergency department is unlike any other service provider that customers encounter. As with traditional forms of service there is the front door which most of us use...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 27, 2009, 6:51 pm
A nice short synopsis of the trials and tribulations of our (US) current H1N1 vaccine deficits by the Wall Street Journal. Clearly manufacturing technologies have been available for some time that wo...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 25, 2009, 11:46 am
Listening to some podcasts this morning I come across a piece about patients that have asthma that is difficult to treat. A new study in the Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reports ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 25, 2009, 8:45 am
I've often wondered why people start out to complete a task or undertake a job of some sort and then at some point they take short cuts to either cut costs or more likely to finish up what ever th...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 24, 2009, 11:10 am

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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 23, 2009, 5:48 am
Sad but true it is interesting to see or perhaps disappointing to see how the division of labor is segregated within hospitals. Specifically who is responsible for what job or jobs and who is not. T...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 21, 2009, 12:16 am
Health care is a twenty-four hour a day three hundred and sixty-five days a year job. Providers and other employees of any health care system or organization are continually arriving at work and then ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 20, 2009, 8:44 am
In the work place be it health care facilities with high public visibility such as an emergency department or a cubical on the tenth floor of an office building, those work place settings that we all ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 19, 2009, 6:00 am
When patients are looking for health care services they typically will ask friends, family, and in some cases complete strangers who is the best doctor? Which is the better hospital to go to? What pha...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 18, 2009, 5:31 am
Social media application access continues to be a polarizing issue for health care organizations in which employees want to be able to access such platforms as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs during the ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 17, 2009, 10:55 am
Browsing through some of my favorite blogs yesterday I read a post that compared several industries to high school. The post was on Seth Godin's blog which is an eclectic collection of thoughts t...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 16, 2009, 9:05 am
Picture for a moment if you will a physician's office with a big desk, several well framed diplomas on the wall and a couple of chairs in front of the desk for patients to sit in. More or less a ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 15, 2009, 12:02 am
Today I did some grocery shopping before work and I went to the self checkout line where you scan and bag your own items under the watchful eyes of a store employee. On this day I was having trouble ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 13, 2009, 12:25 pm
Our current health care system is so overwhelmed. Emergency departments are frequently inundated with patients with non-acute problems. Primary care physicians are working at breakneck speeds to try ...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 12, 2009, 10:00 am
Isn't it amazing how many health care providers carry and use cellular phones at work; in the very spaces where they tell patients not use them? Last evening the ER was unusually quiet, likely due...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 11, 2009, 12:05 pm
A young patient goes to the hospital because they have a persistent illness. Once at the hospital the patient’s symptoms are treated conservatively with a small amount of medication and some IV flu...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 10, 2009, 8:24 pm
Anticipating the needs of patients goes a long way toward improving organizational feedback. When patients come into a health care facility staff should be routinely leaning forward to meet the upco...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 9, 2009, 10:34 pm
With the flu season essentially upon us there has been wide spread publication about the seasonal flu and the dreaded H1N1 or Swine Flu virus. Earlier this summer the media exploded with countless hea...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 8, 2009, 6:02 pm
A day off from work today, I found myself sipping a beer in the driveway, sitting in a rocking chair with my feet up on the bumper of my jeep wrangler and I am reading the newest president's messa...
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Mike P. posted an article on Just another blog by a nurse - Oct 8, 2009, 10:09 am
Last night I was asked by a non-medical person why so many people come to the emergency department. What a loaded question I thought. Clearly there are dozens of reasons for ER visits. Several are w...
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