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• morning insane twitterfolk up this early. #
• blogging is apparently addictive. #
• @h2cm thanks alot! I really appreciate it. Consider it reciprocated. #
• @brainscramble thanks! #
• @pixelrn because their sites use 3 gigabytes of flash menus. #
• if anyone has some horribly inaccurate stylized EKG logos, clipart, etc I would love to have them..working on a project- not much on GIS #
• @pixelrn How can you expect any better from the parent of the network that axed Scrubs? #
• @iconjohn it’s going to be on ABC at some point this year– maybe January.. #
• @ruraldoctoring the dreaded prairie pirates? #
• was going to blog this, but not enough to say: big boy beds and our carpet flooring do not mix well. #
• @crzegrl15 my hospital’s wrapped up in so many layers of bureaucracy any single employee’s blog is dust on their radar. #
• @scanman @pixelrn thanks! #
• I should add a smiley face to http://tinyurl.com/5qbqyh and sell it as a t-shirt. #
• @pixelrn I don’t think that’s even indicative…generic DNS settings at the moment. #
• it appears to be woo woo day @ allnurses again…joy #
• @ruraldoctoring DAI = diffuse axonal injury #
• I already have a target for pseudoscience part III. wheee! #
• @not_ratched Sprint’s not bad if you got the SERO deal before they closed that loophole. I have 500 minutes + unlimited data for $35 #
• bah..pH 7.17 rsi box ahoy! #
• me: “pt’s HR is 155.” nurse:”they’re just doing CPT.” me: “that’s not CPT…” /sigh #
• diff. nurse, same m/s floor: “how long has my pt’s HR been 215?!?” me: “that’s CPT.” /sigh #
• @tracit3 godspeed noble warrior. #
• @wardbunny nurses that get paid decently+travel expenses for short-term contracts at places needing staff. #
• @ruraldoctoring @symtym SFTP is more secure as it’s essentially SSH. #

I’ve now had a twitter account for just over one day. At first, there wasn’t much going on due to a limited number of contacts, but this morning, PixelRN posted a list of nurses that blog and changed my life in the twitterverse forever.

It appears that many of us on her list simultaneously chose to follow each other, weaving a giant spiderweb of twitter contacts (or whatever they are no doubt stupidly called).

I’m now following+followed with over 30+ people, and the twitter-thingy has been quite busy. Several interesting micro-conversations to date, although I’m not sure how much of it is a novelty act for me at this point. I guess time will tell.

On that note, I found a decent plugin that notifies twitter whenever I create a new blog post, and also creates a 24-hour blog archive post of my tweets. Creepy. We’ll see how long this lasts.

All aboard the Woo Woo Train!

In part one I touched on many different issues involved in nursing that bothered me as a rational guy. Today, I want to discuss one specific issue: Energy Fields.

Yes, energy fields. Auras. Chi. It’s all junk and it’s all pseudoscience that shouldn’t be associated in any capacity with a supposedly evidence based science-backed profession such as nursing. Yet, not only are there nurses who espouse such beliefs, energy field disturbances are actually included as a NANDA approved nursing diagnosis! Don’t believe me? Here’s the relevant page from Nursing Diagnosis, 11th Ed. More after the jump.

No, there isn’t a typo in the headline. That’s actually how one of my instructors defined SVT in our cardiac lecture last semester. While she was an otherwise great instructor, clearly cardiac wasn’t her bag.

I just got my calendar for this semester, and it looks like fun. We have great second year instructors including a pediatric nurse practitioner and an emergency clinical nurse specialist, and of course the material itself is no longer the watered down basics. Here’s my mini-syllabus:

1. Maternity
2. Newborn
3. Cardiac/Respiratory (Adult+Pedi)
4. Legal stuff
5. Blood
6. Neuro
7. Mental Health
8. Renal
9. More Legal Stuff
10. TRAUMA / SHOCK / BURNS, baby!

They always save the best lecture series for last.