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Country: United States
State: Nebraska
Birthday: 5/5/1966
Gender: Female
Interests: Washing clothes until they become soft and gray, painting beautiful pictures in my head, singing off key, playing songs that mean nothing to anyone but me
Expertise: Working with the routine and not so routine discharges of society
Occupation: Medical
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
11/27/2002
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Okay...so I've been on hiatus for awhile. For some reason I've become disillusioned with writing about my nursing experiences. I only complain here and I'm sick of it! There are good things that happen in my job...plenty of them! The patients are wonderful and most of the people I work with are awesome! However...I have one thing to bitch about then I'll quit...I am sick to death of genitals! There...it's said. UGH Maybe I'll get over this aversion...maybe not. I just wish they(genitals in general)weren't so damn ugly! Well nuff said bout THAT! | | |
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GET THAT HIPAA OFFA MY BACK!
Work has been busier than usual. The odd thing about it is what is making it busier...odd isn't the correct word. The CRAP that is making work busier would be correct terminology. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA...need I say more? What that means is to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of electronic health information...so...we added an average of 6 more papers for our patients to read and sign when they come in to the hospital...actually anytime a patient is seen or heard they will have to fill out more paperwork. This isn't just a state thing...this is all over. Yesterday I was assisting an elderly patient who was to be prepped for a scope prodecure. We usually have patients come in 2 hours ahead of their scheduled procedure so we can get the prep all done...sometimes it takes longer...it just depends. It took her and I 45 of those precious 60 to get her paperwork done...and she was able to hear, see and sign her own papers!!! I cannot imagine what amount of time it will take to help someone who cannot!!!
Fines are steep and scary
| Offense |
Monetary Penalty |
Term of Imprisonment |
| Single violation of a provision |
$100 |
n/a |
| Multiple violations of a provision or a requirement |
Up to $25,000 |
n/a |
| Wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information |
Up to $50,000 |
Up to 1 year in federal prison |
| Wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information committed under false pretenses |
Up to $100,000 |
Up to 5 years in federal prison |
| Wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information under false pretenses with intent to sell, transfer, or use for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm |
Up to $250,000 |
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I keep telling myself...I love my job...I love my job...this is what nursing is all about...after all.
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 I have been working in ambulatory surgery Tuesdays through Thursdays this last 6 weeks or so and starting next week will be starting my "on call" time. I believe it will be for 1 week in a row then 2 off...something like that. I think this is fair warning of potential bitchiness showing up here! hee hee
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| Okay...I admit it..I'm resorting to cruddy poetry because I'm busy and lazy right now...I'm going to try to be productive at some point soon!
SECRETS OF A MANIC QUEEN
I learned to play hearts in the psych ward
But only after I suffered the initiation
My student nurse crispy whites required
A bald schizophrenic tagged me correctly as new meat
Accused me of wanting to castrate him since birth
Then threw a ceramic ash tray across the room
Skipping it across the black and white checked floor like he was playing hopscotch
The spinning disc landed beside a woman exhibiting tardive dyskinesia who was licking her face
She stopped for a moment startled then gradually melted into a series of tics
I responded to the accusation with a hearty "I do not!"
"I've seen enough balls this month to last a lifetime!"
(just completed my rotation in urology, thank you very much)
The bald one satisfied slumped away caressing his jewels and demanding a smoke.
A manic depressive to my left beamed and expansively shared with me
That he was the queen of England and taught me to play hearts
by Sheryl McCurdy
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| HAUNTED BY HIS EYES
The grip of the old mans stare was powerful
much stronger that the birdlike claw
he held outstretched
trembling in palsied flight
mothlike wings awkwardly beating the air near me
as I passed him in the corridor
late one night
his eyes have haunted me since
the watery blue ponds
unrippled reflection of saphire jewels
hidden inside the desert of his face
caressed by wrinkles of valleys
his gleaming sky gaze
those piercing stones sought me out
again and again
fastened fiercly to me by a fine gold chain
I was hypnotized, in his spell
his lids peeled open revealing to me
legends of his once vigorous life
I stood transfixed, time was nothing now
seasons changed, people were born, they lived, died
I saw everything as if I had been there
before the glacial paralysis, mothlike beating wings
palsied plea for flight
this, his life had become now
and I knew him, I knew him so well
those eyes, they haunt me still...
by S McCurdy | | |
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