This is highly entertaining with the impending implementation of the EMR at my local facility.
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Archive for November, 2010
Catching A Computer Virus
Posted by Sean on November 28, 2010
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When did healthy become unpopular
Posted by Sean on November 26, 2010
I had to share my post over at Scubs Magazine.
Anyone care to be un-cool with me?
Amplify’d from scrubsmag.com
When did healthy become unpopular?
*Warning: personal rant to follow*
Since when did being health-aware and being interested or passionate about increasing your wellness become off color? Where the heck was I when being unhealthy became the ‘in’ thing??
That’s our society’s problem. This is the real reason why we have our obesity problem. This is the truth behind the impending strain on our health care system because we are all ‘sick’. It’s more popular to not care about my body’s health, and follow the ‘herd’ by scoffing at anything that would improve the state of my health.
Oh, you know I’m right.
Why is it you get the dirty looks from your co-workers when you turn down the latest sweet treat offered at the nurses station (or break room)?
Why do people get offended that you refused their offering of candy?
Why in the world do I get the crookedly-frowning face when I politely say no thank you to ANY food that I know is unhealthy?
Why do I hear the moans and snide comments when I snack on an apple or banana instead of a candy bar?
Why do I have to explain myself when I choose to be healthy in anyway? “Oh, you’re one of those people”. One of what people!?? You mean one of those people that gives a damn about living and not suffering??
Why is that our own family and friends have no spines? Instead of supporting our efforts we become the butt end of a joke? We get laughed at, or made fun of in some strange condescending manner. While it’s their own weak defense mechanism, it still makes me wonder why being fat, overweight, slovenly careless, or just plain ole’ lazy is the ‘cool’ thing to do??
Yet, these are the same people that don’t blink twice about making fun of the overweight person at the shopping mall or grocery store? When the heck did we become so blinded by our own foolishness? So blind that we forgot to look in the mirror.
Somehow the person making the effort to lower their cholesterol by exercising and eating right is not as cool or not as popular as the person who just takes another pill to correct their cholesterol? We rather take another pill than actually work for it.
It’s much cooler to die at a young age. It’s more ‘hip’ to suffer in pain from diabetic neuropathy, early onset arthritis (from extra weight your joints carry), and wheeze going up the stairs in your house (either from smoking, obesity or just laziness).
Apply for another handicap parking pass folks, since you can’t walk a far distance due to.. oh wait. Due to YOUR POOR health choices.
*sigh*
It’s maddening to think that in order for me to be cool I need to dig my grave faster.
I guess I’ll never be cool. Anyone else care to be un-cool with me?
Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
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Post-holiday Coma
Posted by Sean on November 26, 2010
Yeah.. I ate too much yesterday. But, I knew what I was doing. No guilt. (uhh.. maybe a lil shame for the lack of control though)
Hey- it only comes once a year.
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Giving Thanks to All Nurses
Posted by Sean on November 25, 2010
Yeah. The hospital doesn’t close for the holiday. They don’t have ‘holiday’ hours. Some of us are there right now saving lives, tending to your loved ones and making the difference.
Be sure to thank a nurse today when you’re enjoying your holiday with your loved ones.
Thank you for working the shift. Thank you.
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Giving Thanks To Those Who Serve
Posted by Sean on November 25, 2010
They don’t get the holiday ‘off’. They don’t get the long weekend. They don’t get to sleep in.
It’s just another day on duty.
When you are at the dinner table this holiday be sure to remember and thank those soldiers for giving you the ability and the opportunity to be there.
Thank you.
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Warning! Dr. Oz Can Be Harmful to the Nursing Profession
Posted by Sean on November 22, 2010
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The far reaching clutches of those demeaning nurse stereotypes never cease to amaze me. This time on the ‘infamous’ Dr. Oz show.
*sigh*
-begin rant-
Dr. Oz is promoted as the new ‘all-things health’ guru. Spawned from his ‘consultation’ on Oprah, he garnered rave reviews. Enough to launch his own show, now in its 2nd year (I think).
I’m not a fan, nor do I watch the show. I have been a fan of his message and his plight. That is, until now.
In the name of ‘health’ and all-things healthy, I’m a huge supporter to losing weight any which way you can. If it works for you, then keep on doing it. I guess this particular guest on his show lost her weight ‘dancing’. I’m not going to dive into the specifics of her weight loss journey and success. I’d rather talk about the off-color tactics that were used on the show, and how good ole’ Dr. Oz didn’t think anything of it. Here it is cited from The Truth About Nursing website:
Today the popular daytime television program The Dr. Oz Show offered viewers an amazingly concentrated package of harmful nursing stereotypes, all wrapped up in a short segment about Angel Williams, who lost 200 pounds by dancing. We’re all for any safe and effective weight loss strategy. But Williams dressed in a regressive short white nurse’s dress, said she was going to "get sexy" and unbuttoned the top of the dress as she prepared to lead Oz in some dancing, and told Oz that she and a group of similarly attired dancers would be "your nurses, we’re gonna keep America moving for you." No doubt the show thought it would be fun to present these women as Oz’s sexy nurse backup dancers–doesn’t every celebrity physician have those? Especially surgeons like Dr. Oz! Unfortunately, this short segment managed to reinforce a slew of stereotypes: the naughty nurse, the low-skilled physician handmaiden, and the idea that nursing is for females living in a past era. And far from looking uncomfortable about these nursing elements, Oz himself twice referred to the dancers as Williams’s "fellow nurses." After Williams told Oz what the "nurses" would do "for" him, Oz responded, "I love it." We don’t. Please tell Dr. Oz that nurses are skilled, autonomous health professionals–despite the Oprah protégé’s multimedia health empire and his position on the Columbia Medical School faculty, it’s not clear that he knows.
Thinking right, thinking bright!
Here is a well-known and respected health care professional, a fellow physician colleague, taking part in some of the most heinous and degrading acts of nursing stereotypes. If Dr. Oz can’t stop the stereotyping that’s happening right in front of his face and in front of his audience….
Do you think it will ever be stopped?
Once again – our profession seems to be the butt-ended punch-line of a good joke or vivid fantasy.
The public will never know what we are, and what we provide at this rate. Good ole’ Hollywood-medicine seems to be hell-bent on keeping it that way.
- end of rant-
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Carpe Diem
Posted by Sean on November 22, 2010
Any questions?
Amplify’d from bitsofwisdom.org
Be a ‘sieze the moment’ friend
Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven’t thought about it, don’t have it on their schedule, didn’t know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.
I got to thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more flexible.
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched ‘Jeopardy’ on television?
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said , ‘How about going to lunch in a half hour?’ She would gas up and stammer, ‘I can’t. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain’ And my personal favorite: ‘It’s Monday.’ She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.
Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
We’ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We’ll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We’ll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.
Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of ‘I’m going to,’ ‘I plan on,’ and ‘Someday, when things are settled down a bit.’
When anyone calls my ‘seize the moment’ friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you’re ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It’s just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
Now…go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to…not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
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Sick Day Denied
Posted by Sean on November 20, 2010
Hmm..
I wonder how many of my nurse colleagues will like this one.
Heh heh.
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The Weakness of the Nursing Profession
Posted by Sean on November 19, 2010
Yep,
I’ll be the first to admit it. We are our own worst enemy. We shot ourselves in the foot many years ago and we are continually struggling to correct that mistake with efforts to give our profession the identity it deserves.
Our strength is our weakness. While the flexibility and multitude of entrance options exist (and were created) for becoming a nurse to satisfy the grave shortage situation it also is the source of our profession’s ‘professional’ weakness.
Our requirements have been spread so thin that it has weakened the very fabric and foundation of our identity.
I don’t have the answer, I wish I did.
I do know that when we can answer this ever-growing dilemma, it will roll-over and SOLVE many of the other problems we face as a profession.
The future does look bright – I just hope everyone is willing to hang on for the ride.
Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
But the report was just as forceful in urging nurses to revamp the way they are educated, citing the decades-long struggle within the profession to define what exactly a nurse is. The term “registered nurse” can refer equally to graduates of two-year associate’s programs, four-year baccalaureate programs, and advanced master’s or doctorate programs. In addition to proposing the addition of postgraduate clinical training, or residency, programs, similar to what physicians currently go through, the panel recommended increasing the number of nurses with baccalaureate degrees to 80 percent from 50 percent and doubling the number of nurses with doctorate degrees over the next 10 years. Read more at www.nytimes.com
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Eat Like An Adult
Posted by Sean on November 19, 2010
I swiped this lil’ gem from an article over at T-Nation by Dan John.
This. Is. Awesome.
So raw, so real, and SO TRUE. We live in a society that whines about the state of our health, when the source of our whining is due to the decisions WE make. So we whine for attention not for correction.
It’s time to stop with the fluff and start being tough.
Grow up.
Amplify’d from www.t-nation.com
Honestly, seriously, you don’t know what to do about food? Here is an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid’s cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods whenever your favorite show is not on when you want it on, ease up on the snacking and, don’t act like you don’t know this, but eat vegetables and fruits more. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.
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