ER Nurse, Correctional RN, psych nurse, retired EMT, lover of live music, jelly beans, & SBUX Chai Lattes. Views my own except the pro-vax stuff -that’s science
@billkinkle I already have pts who are reluctant to share information bc of stigma associated w MH or addiction, specifically, but other HC problems as well. I can’t imagine me wearing a body cam is going to provide an environment where these pts are comfortable opening up. 😕
How the NYT Connections editors feel when you foolishly try to guess a category that could be "US States" instead of "Words that appeared in the third title card of a 1911 silent film"
These two boys were in the same class at school in Leicester. Unknown to anyone, one of their classmates was in the early stages of smallpox and highly contagious. Both boys were exposed to the deadly virus, but only the boy on the right had previously been vaccinated.
@glukianoff Exactly. This is protecting. the right to burn the flag…. While hating the fact that the flag is being burned.
Free political speech IS the foundation of free speech.
@ask_aubry I’m of the one AirPod wearing group. Comes from long walks home on a large university campus after my 7p-10p lectures would get out. My first thought was this was about situational awareness. I don’t really like either interpretation.
@JDaviesPhD@purplemamabear What their wider lives look like (that’s not exclusive to psych) but you need an accurate dx to effective treat a pt. Hands down. Every time. When you fail to do that. You fail the pt. Ask every pr who has suffered a misdiagnosis. Developmentally, psychiatrically, medically.
@JDaviesPhD@purplemamabear This implies a Dx is irrelevant. Which is just not true. There is a difference between schizophrenia & bipolar. Just as in a medical dx, getting a correct psych dx can be the difference in effective treatment. You will need to gain info about who a pt is and 1/
The roads leading away from the small street we grew up on took us all in very different directions, but I am endlessly grateful for your life and your sacrifice.
I will always say your name. Staff Sgt. Eric Christian.
@EM_RESUS I had an EMS pt who had this and seemed to be someone who was drug seeking. I later met her when she was not in a flare and was a totally different pt. A nurse later confirmed she had porphyria.
She had a lot of pain. I’m glad i learned what she had.