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		<title>Knock, Knock.  Who&#8217;s There?  Asystole.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At work, we have Voceras.  They are little phones that we wear around our necks.  We use them to call each other, other departments, take phone calls.  They were a little annoying at first and kind of hard to get used to using, but now we all use them every day and I personally have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Pill Crushing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have to crush pills sometimes.  Either the patient (through aversion or physical limitation from stroke) can&#8217;t swallow whole pills so we crush them and put them in applesauce, or the patient gets their pills through a tube, so we crush them and dissolve them in water. When I started nursing, we had a mortar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making The Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A patient codes.  Almost simultaneously, a multitude of actions are set in motion.  When the nurses and therapists at the bedside know each other well, it&#8217;s almost like a dance, everyone moving fairly gracefully around each other and the equipment flooding into the room. Someone watches the monitor, someone makes sure there&#8217;s a line and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so very long ago, I took care of a rather young patient in her 30&#8242;s.  She had a respiratory illness that quite frankly baffled us.  We couldn&#8217;t figure out exactly why someone so young and healthy was being completely knocked on her butt by a pneumonia. The illness progressed to the point where she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kidnapped Napper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My patient&#8217;s daughter had been up all night in the ED with her mother and by now it was just after noon.  She was very tired.  Nonetheless, I needed to find her to ask an important question. I got to the waiting room and found approximately 10 family members, but not the daughter.  I asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rambling and Some News and Some Other News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took care of an elderly man recently.  He&#8217;d been dealing with multiple medical problems for almost 30 years.  Despite being in some very significant pain, he still made eye contact, still said &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you.&#8221; He wasn&#8217;t faking the pain.  He was very stoic, but I could tell he was hurting.  That tight-lipped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choose Wisely</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He knew she was angry with him. &#8220;Whenever I come to see her, I reach out and take her hand, but she looks away.&#8221; Husband and wife for well over 50 years, they had been through a lot.  They met in another country in another time, and to hear him tell it, it almost seemed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jade is not just a gemstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over a month ago, our unit had several H1N1 flu patients.  And they were sick.  Really really sick.  They were also fairly young &#8211; 30&#8242;s to 50&#8242;s.  I wondered at the time why the media hubbabaloo about the flu had died down when I was seeing more and more patients in my unit who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was related to me from a coworker: I was taking care of a man who was on bipap.  (Bipap is a form fitting mask that goes over the mouth and nose to help augment breathing.  It has successfully been used numerous times in place of intubating patients and putting them on ventilators.)  He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blissfully Unalerted</title>
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		<comments>http://www.codeblog.com/archives/tales_from_the_ccu/blissfully-unalerted.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, my hospital updated our computer charting/order entry system.  When a doc orders a med, the system is set up to make the order expire in a set period of time (2 weeks, for example).  During training, we were taught that when it was getting close to the time of expiration, an [...]]]></description>
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