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		<title>Research shows care needed when dosing children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children are being mis-dosed. Research shows that a kitchen spoon used to measure the dose of medicine is inaccurate.  Children can be under or over dosed if you are not using a calibrated spoon or syringe to deliver the exact dose needed. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Typical Day in the ER &#8211; Patient Faking a Seizure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes patients will arrive in the ER triage and you know they are not really sick, and they have an agenda.  Unfortunately many times it is to acquire drugs.  Sometimes the same person will come over and over again for the same reason, but with a different ailment each time. Sometimes these people require confrontation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange&#8230;Butt True</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story is going to be hard to believe as true. But I am telling you it is!! So just read with a bit tolerance. And remember there is nothing more entertaining than the truth of human nature. I was a new graduate and a little gullible, admittedly so. I was in my first job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being in the Wrong Place At the Wrong Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an extraordinary story of a miraculous recovery that occurred to a patient out in Denver, where I worked for about 10 years, about 30 years ago. I was a nurse on a neurological floor at St. Anthony’s Hospital. There was a remarkable neuro-surgeon that worked there who was unrivaled in his skills and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Teach Us to Present Reality to Confused Patients- In My Opinion It’s Not Always the Right Thing To Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you about another of my fond memories. When I was in nursing school a long long …long time ago, we were taught that you must present reality to confused patients. You were to continually reorient them to the reality of the moment, the date, the time, the place etc.&#160; Well although this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient rights, was patient safety jeopardized?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the early eighties, it came strongly into focus about patient rights. It was decided by the Joint Commission, now known as JACHO (the accrediting council for hospitals) that it was no longer allowed to physically restrain patients. You see it used to be a safety practice for confused patients if they were in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forty Years of Nursing, Stories of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Susan, I am a registered nurse with a large variety of nursing experiences. I have been nursing for forty years. I have a sub-specialty in orthopedics, cardiology and alcohol and drug withdrawal and rehabilitation. I have also worked in most fields of nursing, and I am currently working in emergency medicine. [...]]]></description>
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