If more than 1 hospital in your area, which are they affilitated with and have privileges at?? nm
Posted By: wanderer on 2006-10-31
In Reply to: Ask if they set aside time each day for urgent appts. - sm
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Use a play on the hospital name. The one at Keystrokes is KeyNotes. The one at a hospital I worked
named Great Valley Hospital was In The Valley. Take a main word in the name and just write down anything that comes to mind. Put a main word here and let us all give some play on words to it.
Believe it or not, I used to get it through the hospital ....
pharmacy when I worked in-house with a 30% discount. Still have friends who work in-house that get it for me at that price. Advantage works well for my cats.
We met at the hospital where we both
worked. I was happily dating one guy, and my hubby stole me away from the other one. He even proposed in the hall at the hospital, where he presented my ring to me, with me in my scrubs. We're still married 21 years later.
Hospital
I just quit a hospital job, too - one that I had been in for years (and years). They were changing over to Escript from Chartscript, and it was a disaster management-wise, and otherwise. I could have taken a job at MQ but turned it done - didn't want evening or weekends.
She needs to be in the hospital
Sorry, but the dog needs to stay where she is. Parvo is highly contagious and very often fatal. The dog needs constant monitoring by a trained staff, not a loving mom.
Hope the baby gets better soon. Sorry to hear she came down with this.
Mom in hospital
Sorry about your mom. First of all, according to the new HIPPA laws, I don't think you can be told anything about her case, BUT she is entitled to be told anything that she asks and is supposed to get a clear, concise answer (key word being supposed). If I were you, I'd tell your mom what to ask and be there when she does to sort of guide her, etc. If she OKs it, they will tell her while you are in the room. I went through all of this 4 years ago when my husband was so sick. Good luck. Hope it works.
If you know anyone that works at a hospital, they
and wind up throwing the old ones away. That is how I got one in my possession. Old or not, it could still be resourceful at points even in our new wave of technology online. Just a thought.
Yep, me. I quit my hospital job sm
to work at home just because I got tired of some mean people in the office complaining I was always in the bathroom. Like I really wanted to be there.
General Hospital
I've been watching GH for years. What do you think about Elizabeth/Lucky/Jason? I'd like to slam Elizabeth. I feel sorry for Jason.
FIL in hospital. What questions should I ask? (SM)
My 72yo FIL was transferred to the trauma unit in a bigger city this past Saturday because of a fall and head injury he sustained Saturday morning.
Since he has been there (more than 48 hours now), he has not eaten and is not receiving a dextrose drip or the like through his IV. They only took complete x-rays, CT, and MRI on Sunday afternoon. The first time a doctor/resident evaluated him was on Sunday evening sometime after 9 p.m. Also, he is somewhat delusional. He knows his name and where he is, but he is grabbing at things in the air, wants to take the trash out, etc. This is definetly abnormal for him. He has always been alert and oriented.
My question is this: Should it take 36 hours before he is evaluated by a doctor? Is it normal not to give him any type of nourishment (no food, no IV) for more than 48 hours? Is it normal to wait 2 days to see a neurologist (who won't be in to see him until late today) when the main reason he was transferred was for neurology consult? I understand he went in on the weekend, but should it take this long to get answers.
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
Melissa
hospital CEO's at fault too
Nurses not work when they are tired? Hospitals need to hire enough nurses so that won't be forced to work when they are tired- ARH nurses in our state are on strike right now fighting for this. about the Quaid babies, I agree the meds should be in totally different colored bottles.
She was in hospital almost a week before she had him...
Sorry I didn't mention that he took off a week before she had the baby. But yeah he has went back to work according to her mom. I think she is embarrassed about his feet but I have told her that she need not be he is a sweet adorable baby. How could someone make fun of a baby? When I do ask to speak to her her mom will say she is busy or something. I say well the baby must be really keeping her busy and her mom says no actually he sleeps most of the time. The baby was checked by the doctor and he said completely healthy baby other than the clubbed feet. I thought about dropping by but her mom had said that she just wished people would not come over. And one of my other friends "dropped" in and her mom called me and was kind of acting like they thought that was rude to come unannounced. So I don't know how to go about it. I did call during the time she has been home but her mom said her husband was off so I know she wouldn't talk. She is very strict about no phone calls when they are together. It is weird to me but she is a very good friend. But I would still call and ask her mom how her and the baby were anyway and some days her mom would call me just to chat. I don't know I kind of feel like I have lost my friend. I will have to send a card.
Hospital bill
As long as you pay something every month, there is nothing they can do to you.
I would not take my money out of the CD's or move it. Just keep paying something every month.
What does it being a Catholic hospital have to
everywhere. The place I used to work for, they were atheists and it was like working in hel* every day.
At the hospital where I worked there were
pampered chef, anything you wanted to buy, you could purchase all on company time. There were also people that would sell dinner plates through their church.
This "daylighting" is nothing new. I myself on breaks would "deliver typed reports to an internal office." I stayed in the building, but I was on my break (not paid) or on lunch (not paid). So, what's the difference?
Tell me this isn't true; anyone who has worked on-site knows it happens every day.
hospital ~ go figure!
I have it in my Expander to autocorrect.
When I worked in a hospital, I once
had a "stat" dictation on a patient in the ICU. At the beginning of the dictation, the doctor said to rush this up to the ICU the minute it was transcribed. It was a consult on this old man's watch that had a nude woman on it. One of the funniest things I ever typed. I worked 2nd shift, so we were responsible for the stat reports getting to the floor. When I took it up to ICU, all the nurses and the doctors there were just hysterical reading the report. The doctor did apologize to me for the "stat," but he was one of our fun doctors, so it was not a problem. I miss the good ole days when we actually knew who we were transcribing for and could actually speak to them face to face when we had problems with them.
When I worked at a hospital
as a nurse's aide, there were several episodes similar to that. I was young about 19 to 20. One particular episode, I went in and picked up a breakfast tray and asked the guy if he was ready for his shower. He said yes, I told him I will be back with a new gown and towels. He said okay. When I came back in he was stripped down to nothing but his birth suit. I put the towels down and went and told the other nurses about the incident. Also, there was another man wanting me to wash his thing, KWIM. If he were comatose or had both hands broken I would have to but there was not a thing wrong with this man and I refused. I went and got another aide and asked her advice and she said she wouldn't either. We told the nurse's and the doc about the incident and he wrote that up as an incident report.
Usually men like that I took it that they had some screws loose.
I don't think a hospital/MTSO would go
for that, someone doing it with NO experience more than likely, plus all the legal hoops they would have to jump through.
Mom has been in hospital for 2 weeks.
she went in with breathing problems, but the longer she was there the more issues came up. She apparent came down with C. diff. They started coming in with the yellow suits, for infectious disease precautions. She finally asked why, and the nurse said according to her chart she had a history or MRSA with open wounds. I said WHAT. The last problem she had with a wound was in 1987 with gallbladder surgery when she had a bile leak and some wound dehiscence. MRSA was not even around then. She has never been told anything about MRSA.
My question is: Should I confront them and ask when this was diagnosed, and what the circumstances were. I am wondering if this is another example of OFFSHORING records where mistakes were made. I mean really, if this is an error I feel it should be corrected, and if not, why was she never told this?
I definitely think having her stay in hospital overnight would be best.
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CNN says she's dead - died at the hospital....
found unconscious in a hotel room. So sad that she had such a wasted life.
There was a hospital here in Texas that called 911
It was a physician owned hospital. The story was on CNN. A man had back surgery there, had some sort of bad reaction to the anesthesia and the wife herself had to do CPR. The surgeon walked in and told her to call 911.
The hospital has been shut down.
Had a lap chole at the local hospital..
several years ago. At the time, I was a checker at a grocery store. My second day back to work a guy came through my line and said to me, "The last time I saw you, you were half naked, in a blue shower cap and drooling." He was my recovery room nurse...
Stopped immediately when put in hospital
unable to catch my breath, almost white-out of my lungs. Put on Theophylline, steroids, face looked like the man in the moon but the theophylline the worst. I was eating cigs before then. After 2 weeks in the hospital and being on that particular medicine, never wanted to smoke again and didn't - that was in 1998, Thanksgiving Day to be exact, so sick I didn't want the turkey and dressing.
I voted for your hospital - I hope you win!!! (nm)
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These are real from my hospital days
Uneeda Lay (had to call out her name on a loudspeaker)
Crystal Chandal Lear
North West
Sandy Beach (married name)
He thought it was a hospital gown
This is a little late - just saw the posting. We were in army overseas and I showed him a pic of the dress I would wear (I didn't tell him I was going to wear it) but he said to me very sympathetically "When were you in the hospital?"
Consider the source. DD in hospital this summer sm
with serious illness. After about the fifth time a nurse had asked us what her symptoms were - my daughter just looked at me and I said simply "Gross edema?" because explaining how every part of her body had swollen over the last 4 weeks just got old. Nurse looked at me and said, "Are you a nurse?" I said no - but I do do MT..... wanted to be a smart aleck and said "No - but I stated at a Holiday Inn last night!"
I wound up in the hospital due to excessive smoking
and spent 2 weeks there, gained 26 lbs on the steroids I had to be put on, not a good thing as far as that; however they put me on Theophylline, horrible stuff, IV at first and it sped me up, was up for 2 days and 2 nights, sweating like everything, my hair, the bedsheets, could not get myself sweet swelling and I swore if I could just get off of this horrible medicine I would never smoke again. That was in 1998 and never again. When I went home to work in easier to smoke and was "eating" about 3-4 packs per day. After the hospital I still picked up and lit those "nonexisting" cigarettes for some time was so used to them. I would never ever tell another person what to do about their own habits but for me so glad - PS- remarried in 2000 and this hubby is so antismoking so has worked out really well.
Sagar Apollo is a hospital in Bangladesh.
Voted for your hospital and passed on info
to the officers of my Civil War Round Table. If I read the map correctly, ya'll are just down the road from the Andersonville National Historic Site. I hope they will either put it out as an E-mail broadcast to the membership or put a blurb in our newsletter. Our big auction to raise funds for battlefield preservation is Friday. I've signed up to make an announcement there. We may be up north, but we do have a contingent of loyal Confederates (smile) and some experience with tornados.
My puppy has the parvovirus and I just took him to the animal hospital...
to die. He's a black lab named Maverick. I just adopted him from the animal shelter in my town a week ago. We brought him home and he was healthy and happy the first couple of days and then he took a nasty turn vomiting, diarrhea, not eating. I took him to the vet and the tested him for parvo which was positive. They gave him some antibiotics and a shot of a antiemesis medication. I took him home to try to nurse him on my own, but they told me his chances weren't good. He was basically starving to death right in front of my eyes. He drink water and vomit it right back up. He was getting weaker by the hour and had to be carried down off the porch to go into the yard. Finally, I just couldn't put my kids through it anymore. So I called the vet this morning and took him back in to them. They were going to put him on an IV but his prognosis is grave. He was vomiting up blood and has bloody diarrhea.
The vet just called to tell me he felt it was best to euthanize Maverick and wanted my permission to do it. I just hate that this happened! The vet has been trying to console me telling me he hates that this happened to and that he has tried to tell that animal shelter that they have a problem down there with unhealthy animals, but no one will listen. The kicker is it is run by the city police, it's part of the animal control department! So who do you report them to in that situation?
Anyway, I just wanted to tell everyone before you adopt from any animal shelter or human society, make sure the animal is healthy. Make sure the shelter tests for diseases and gives your animal all the necessary immunizations!
This has been a horrible ordeal for my family. We lost our family dog five years ago to liver toxicity and liver failure due to bad flea medicine. I refused to get another dog for a long time. I finally made the decision to adopt another dog and this happens. I think for now I'll just stick with the cat we have and leave it at that. We are just a little emotionally scarred right now and I'm so upset that my kids had to through all of this!
The animal shelter said they would refund my adoption fee that I paid. That's nice and all, but that doesn't make this past week go away.
Anyway, I just wanted cry a little because I know a lot of you guys are animal lovers/owners and you all know my pain.
Thanks for listening.
Gift to St. Jude's or other children's hospital in his name nm
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sb, how is your family, is she still improving in the hospital, been praying!!...nm
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My aunt went in the hospital for heart problems...sm
While in there they posted a sign on the door that said contagious or something to that effect. Well the family was like what does she have. The nurse said MRSA. They were like what? She has no symptoms. So later the doctor came in and explained she was a CARRIER of MRSA. She herself would never get symptoms of it cause she was immune due to being a carrier. But she can pass it on. I had never heard of this before and still don't understand it completely. It happened though.
Why hasn't that hospital adopted the *Time Out*
The entire surgical team is involved in the *Time Out* and *Pause for the Cause* (called different things in different states). All involved in the surgery standing in the OR at that moment must be in agreement on confirming the correct patient, correct procedure, correct site of procedure, correct position of the patient, etc.
I went in for surgery and they asked me multiple times to repeat my name and the procedure I was coming in for as I went through multiple rooms on the gurney.
That is really scary that these types of errors are still going on.
Obviously, that is a hospital I wouldn't even take my dog to.
OMG! I worked at a hospital where the ID badge was credit card
Yes, I totally understand! It is easy to get caught up in the moment and you think, oh, it is only a few dollars. Lunch would be more than I really could afford because I'd charge it. And the bargains at the gift shop (yeah, right!!!).
Could you get a loan from a low interest credit card perhaps to pay off the 2500?
..lice in our hospital way back. Different critters from head or
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Hospital adminstrator and chief of staff should be told
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I worked for a hospital where the major baseball team
here in town used. I had access to all patient information including the telephone numbers and addresses. My daughter, at that time teenager, begged me for the address of a certain big time player who went on to marry Hallie B but no, no- was not gonna put my job on the line. I knew DD could easily turn into your stalker girl!
I'm sure a lot of people at the hospital are selling these types of stories
to the tabloid shows and the tabloids. Unfortunately, stories like this sell. Yes, whoever the source is should be fired.
Worked at hospital where a certain dictator turned a mother in for
smoking. Called family and children services. She did this on every dictation where a child involved.
40 employees in a NJ hospital suspended for leaking George Clooney's sm
medical records after his accident a few weeks ago and this even includes some doctors! But, here is George's response: This is the first I've heard of it. And while I very much believe in a patients right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without suspending medical workers." -- George Clooney
I love him even MORE now! LOL
Call a minister or hospital social service department - nm
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Aren't Muslim babies in theArab countries cicumcised before they leave the hospital? nm
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Yep, we have it in our area.
Central PA, lots of Pennsylvania Dutch. My husband's family owns a butcher shop and they make and sell a lot of scrapple. I personally don't like it. And yes, I do believe it is made from scraps. I can double check if anyone REALLY wants to know. LOL!
I don't know what area you are from, but..
around here you can buy gift cards from grocery stores that give gas perks and earn points towards getting cheaper gas. A lot of them sell a wide variety of giftcards.
KC area
We live in the Kansas City area, my daughter's school had a threatening note found in the bathroom,now have metal detectors and police on campus, another county close by had all schools shut down due to bomb threat, but get this, the person suspected is not a kid, he is 47 years old. In the last 1-1/2 days, have had 4 schools in this area shut down because of bomb threats. It is getting too scary to even send your child to school, can you imagine what it is going to be like in another 10 years?
NMB area, what area are you in..?
Don't know if available in your area but...
you may want to check at your local WalMart for a NET 10 phone. In our area the NET 10 is a lot cheaper, .10 a minute compared to .25 a minute, and NET 10 and Trac are both made and serviced by the same company. May be different in your area, but worth a look? We tried the Trac phones first because we did not know about NET 10. The NET 10 phones are much better quality, they cost just a little more, and they seem to pick up in more areas, we have a lot of mountains. You can even go to the website and buy minutes, NET10.com. With the prepaid phones, it sure teaches the kids how to manage minutes, they hate to carry my phone if they run out. Costs me about $15.00 a month per phone because once the minutes are up, they have to wait until new airtime is due to get more minutes. Trac and NET 10 both do roll over unused minutes not used when you buy new airtime. Even our local dollar store carries the airtime cards, and once set up it is easy to add minutes. Just make sure you add minutes by the due date or you have to call the company and have the phone reset. That can be a pain.
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