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    • Notify House Officer: The Art of Interrupting

    Monday, December 17th, 2007

    Here’s some advice for the new ICU nurse. Here’s an example of some of your orders:
    Notify House Officer (NHO) if HR < 60 or > 100
    NHO if MAP < 60
    NHO if 02 sat < 92%
    and so on and so on…
    One of the challenges of a new nurse in the ICU is learning when to notify [...]

    I Heart Pulmonolgists

    Sunday, March 11th, 2007

    Before I became a nurse I had a completely different view of doctors.
    Because of my stellar health (or more likely, lack of health insurance) I tended to avoid them. What little exposure I had of doctors came from waiting on them in an upscale restaurant. You’d have a group of docs, sitting around a table, […]

    Concierge Medicine: How Much Would You Pay for Your Doctor’s Cell Phone Number?

    Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

    I have been asked to review a product, “Concierge Medicine” offered at MDVIP.com. This is rather timely given my last post, expressing my less than satisfying experience with my OB practice.
    So on to this concierge medicine. What does it offer me as a patient? There are some things that I found appealing. First of all […]

    Switching Teams

    Monday, February 26th, 2007

    It’s kind of late in the game, I know. But I’ve switched teams. I’ve gone from an OB practice to a nurse midwife practice.
    At around 30 weeks I started to thing about taking a birthing class. I procrastinated because (a) I don’t have much spare time and (b) I’m just not a classroom kind of […]