Kindred Spirit of Nursing

The Flag

2010-09-10T18:33:00.001-07:00

I Am The FlagI am the flag of the United States of America. My name is Old Glory.I fly atop the world's tallest buildings.I stand watch in America's halls of justice.I fly majestically over institutions of learning.I stand guard with power in the world.Look up and see me.I stand for peace, honor, truth and justice.I stand for freedom.I am confident. I am arrogant. I am proud.When I am flown with

Broken Links

2010-01-17T18:13:00.000-08:00

Oh my goodness! I just looked at this blog and so many of the links are no longer valid. Should I go and remove all the posts or just let them be? Wow things sure do change!!

Where has Time Gone?

2009-02-13T12:29:00.000-08:00

Looking at the first page of my archives, it is hard to imagine that it has been 4 years since this blog's inception. Much has changed in blogging and thousands of people have created blogs since that time. It still remains a viable vehicle for learning experiences.

911 CALLS

2008-09-03T15:30:00.001-07:00

2008-06-04T09:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/The United States Department of Health and Human Service Department of Minority Health has a free cultural competency course for 9 credits for all health care disciplines.

Medication

2008-04-25T05:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.ismp.org/Newsletters/acutecare/articles/20080313.aspLink to questioning medication orders

DVT and VTE Protocal

2008-04-01T08:38:00.001-07:00

Blue Bloaters and Pink Puffers

2008-02-13T06:26:00.000-08:00

The other day some of the nurses were trying to remember the nicknames for two types of respiratory patients. Although it was somewhere in our memory vault, we just couldn't recall. One of our hospitalists came by and immediately was able to state it.... "blue bloaters and pink puffers." Here are a few links to refresh your memory. Pink Puffers COPD type ABlue Bloaters COPD type B

Women and Heart Disease

2008-02-11T15:35:00.000-08:00

Facts about Heart Disease in Women from the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease:Prevalence:8,000,000 American women are currently living with heart disease - 10% of women ages 45 - 64 and 25% age 65 and over.6,000,000 of women today have a history of heart attack and/or angina or both. Nearly 13% of women age 45 and over have had a heart attack.435,000 American women have heart

Partnership for Prescription Assistance

2008-02-02T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear Healthcare Provider:The Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA), sponsored by America’s pharmaceutical research companies, is a central clearinghouse that connects individuals who are uninsured or lack adequate healthcare coverage to programs that provide prescription medicines for free or nearly free. The PPA is the largest private-sector patient assistance effort helping people in

Generic Bargains

2008-01-18T09:54:00.000-08:00

In the last few years, several chains have followed Walmart's lead to offer certain generic prescriptions for $4 that is cheaper than most copays. This helps tremendously those who have no insurance or high copays.UPDATE: Kroger, Target, and Walmart now have 90 day supplies of some generics for $10! For many this is cheaper than your normal co pay from your insurance company.Walmart, Target, and

Pageflakes

2007-11-30T13:02:00.000-08:00

Here is my pageflake address It contains such links as Continuing education, cardiac links and drug information links.

Drug Information

2007-11-09T07:21:00.001-08:00

Here is another resource for drug information. It contains news, new medications, drug identifier, and images of drugs. This is one of the best free resources I have found recently.The NLM gives us this search engine for drug information.Search

Parkinson's CME

2007-10-27T05:49:00.000-07:00

Often we as nurses care for patients with Parkinson's disease that are often in the later stages of Parkinson's disease. How much do we really know about Parkinson's disease. Here is an interesting CME program from Medical Crossfire. Remember that in the state of Ohio nurses can use CME programs for credit for continuing education. This program is free.

Blood transfusion and the Jehovah Witness

2007-10-23T07:06:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to the official site from the Watchtower society on their stand on receiving blood and blood products.

Healthwatch

2007-10-23T06:51:00.000-07:00

Cbs has an excellant interactive site called Healthwatch.Link

Nurses needed

2007-10-17T07:57:00.000-07:00

Promotional video for nursing created by nursing students. Link about video

CCRN review

2007-08-29T11:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.chartingandassessment.com/CCRN/Main.htmThis is a free online CCRN flashcard program for review.

Curbside MD

2007-08-15T10:39:00.000-07:00

There's a new search engine called Curbside MD. It gathers evidenced based articles... "Curbside.MD searches professional resources such as PubMed, National Guidelines Clearinghouse, FDA, and more." Check it out you and will find that it can be useful in your research.

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics

2007-08-10T16:19:00.000-07:00

Click here for the downloadable 2007 report from the American Heart Association

Drug Patient Teaching

2007-08-08T10:37:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to Nursing Spectrum's Patient Education for the new Drug Handbook.

Gmail

2007-08-02T01:00:00.000-07:00

Gmail is Google's email service. Like AOL and Yahoo's email, it can be accessed from any computer by using your password if you have signed up for Google's free services.One of the neat things that I have found about it is that you can email yourself if you have a file, pictures, etc. that you want to save or have available elsewhere. In addition, the storage is online instead of on your hard

Med Surg Quizes

2007-07-30T09:10:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to several quizes that you can review various subjects with feedback. Have fun and see what you need to review!!In addition, the following link has a gigantic amount of quizes!!

Cardiocast

2007-07-14T05:54:00.001-07:00

Cardiocast at http://www.cardiocast.net/is site that has "all your eggs in one basket". It has Webcasts, CME, Podcasts, links,etc. all relating to cardiac care.

Prayer through the Father's Eyes

2007-07-12T05:00:00.000-07:00

Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cuts us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner,help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college

Medtronics

2007-07-08T05:09:00.000-07:00

Medtronics is a major supplier of defibrillators, pacemakers, and insulin pumps. Their site has numerous helpful resources in teaching or presenting materials on equipment . Here is the page for patient education. In addition there are physician resources (for nurses too)In partnership with WEBMD, they have created a visual tool that shows how the heart is affected by arrythmias.

Anatomy Study Resource

2007-07-08T05:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a cool resource for studying bones, muscles,and other aspects of anatomy. It is from Loyola University.

Image resources

2007-06-23T08:24:00.000-07:00

Gone are the days when you could "steal " an image from another website or from Google images. The expectation is that you use your own images or images that are Creative Common or specified to be used for educational purposes.Below are several excellent resources for images if you need images for your presentations.http://www.servier.com/SMART/home_smart.asphttp://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/

New Cough Etiquette?

2007-06-18T07:56:00.000-07:00

Medications for Heart Disease

2007-06-16T05:55:00.000-07:00

VideoJug: Heart Disease Medications

Video Jug

2007-06-15T20:08:00.000-07:00

Here is a neat website that contains numerous videos. Log in to the Health section and there are numerous educational videos presented by experts.Here is an example. Click the middle button on the bottom of the video to begin,VideoJug: Heart Disease Basics

Diabetes PDFs from Diabetes Resource 2007

2007-06-15T17:25:00.000-07:00

NCLEX Review

2007-06-06T09:19:00.001-07:00

For more videos go to medvids.blogspot.com

Nurse's Christian Fellowship

2007-06-06T08:29:00.000-07:00

This weekend a fellow nurse and I attended a retreat in Western New York sponsored by the Nurse's Christian Fellowship. Although a member for the past year, locally I have been unable to be actively involved. It was a great opportunity to meet other nurses who are believers.For more information here is the link to the website and to Journal of Christian Nursing. Nurse's Christian Fellowship

ACLS Review

2007-05-20T17:02:00.000-07:00

This was created using Powerpoint,saving the files as Jpegs and uploading them to Authorstream. The html script was then cut and pasted to be embedded in this post.

HANDLE WITH CARE

2007-05-09T14:38:00.000-07:00

For those of you who have been nurses more than 10 years, you already know that nursing is very difficult on your back and knees (and shoulders and neck for that matter). The American Nursing Association has a campaign called HANDLE WITH CARE.Presently John Conyers has presented a bill to Congress to help our problemHere is the link to the billWrite your congressman if you are interested in

NLM Gateway

2007-05-02T07:04:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I blogged here. The National Library of Medicine has been in existance for quite some time and has expanded to include numerous data bases for the healthcare provider as well as the consumer. If you haven't looked at it in recent times, here is the link

New Search Engines

2007-04-22T18:00:00.001-07:00

Some new search engines include Clusty and Searchmash.www.dogpile.com is older search link that integrates several search engines.Ask.com has a new look.http://www.schoolr.com/ Is a cool search and conversion tool.Check this multiple search out.http://www.whonu.com/

Free Online Journals

2007-04-22T17:42:00.000-07:00

Click on the following link:Free ONLINE Journals

Critical Care Review

2007-04-22T15:57:00.000-07:00

Valve and Heart infections.Cardiac and MIThese were created with Google Docs and were placed here as an experiment.

Mentoring

2007-04-13T04:50:00.000-07:00

Slideshare version.

History of Nursing

2007-04-10T07:23:00.000-07:00

Would you like to read books from the past? Google has scanned copies of books and there are several classics to read that show some of the original works of nursing such as Isabel Robb Hampton and Nutting. Go to http://books.google.com Enter Nursing history and full text and voila you can read really old texts!!Here is a scanned version of AJN written in 1907 that gives some history of

Cardiac Link

2007-04-10T06:48:00.001-07:00

http://www.interactivephysiology.com/demo/systems/systems/cardio/index.html

Clinical Cases

2007-03-30T09:22:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite blogs from a physician at the Cleveland Clinic. Ves Dimov is definitely one of the "kindred spirits" in the love of education and the study of medicine.http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/

EKG Activity

2007-03-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.maagnursing.com/flash/ecg_activity.htmlMargaret Maag's Activty for EKGs

Drug search

2007-03-18T15:28:00.001-07:00

Here is a drug search tool.

Cardiac Links

2007-03-14T15:09:00.000-07:00

Cardiac Links http://www.skillstat.com/Flash/cardiacDictionary531.htmlCardiac dictionary Online dictionary for cardiac termshttp://www.refdesk.com/ General page for multiple searcheshttp://www.skillstat.com/learn.htm Cardiac simulatorshttp://www.actnt.com/2005_ECC_Guidelines.htm ACLS guidelineshttp://circ.ahajournals.org/content/vol102/suppl_1/#ECC_GUIDELINES New ACLS guidelines from Circulation

Teaching Animations

2007-03-07T07:39:00.001-08:00

http://www.maxanim.com/index.htm This is the website that includes animations for teaching sciences.

Physical Exam Web sites

2007-03-07T07:28:00.000-08:00

Pediatrics Clerkship Web Page Columbia University Clinical skill videos Queen's University The Connecticut Tutorials Physical Examination Video Physical Diagnosis Skills - University of Washington School of Medicine Virtual Patient Reference Library NeuroLogic Exam Home OPETA Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant Physical Exam Modules University of Virginia Pedineurologic Exam University of

Grand rounds web pages

2007-03-07T07:25:00.001-08:00

» 2005 Pediatric Grand Rounds | Streamed Videos, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center » Dalhousie University - Radiology » Dalhousie University Department of Radiology Presentations - Video Library » DAVE Project - Gastroenterology - Atlas of Endoscopy » Department of Medicine Emory University » Grand Rounds Presentations | Arkansas Children's Hospital » Grand Rounds University of

Heart Animations and sounds

2007-03-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.blaufuss.org/

Online lectures

2007-03-07T05:27:00.000-08:00

http://basicsciences97.blogspot.com/This is a really exciting blog. It has links to actual lectures that you can view online to review.The integrative biology lectures are very easy to follow.

Nursing Law

2007-03-06T10:49:00.000-08:00

The state of Ohio requires that nurses take a course in Nursing Law. This is our year to renew our registered nursing license. Finally there is a free link to obtain it. Hurry because it expires soon.http://www.healthcaretodayonline.com/HCTclassroom/HCTclassroom.html

Nursing Magazines

2007-01-09T06:22:00.000-08:00

NURSING MAGAZINE HOME PAGESRN magazine Home page http://www.rnweb.com/rnweb/issue/issueList.jsp?id=432 American Journal of Nursing http://www.ajnonline.com/ Journal of Christian Nursing http://www.journalofchristiannursing.com/ or http://ncf.intervarsity.org/membersonly/cnj.html Nursing http://www.nursing2007.com/Most of these can only be accessed if you are a subscriber.

God Created the Dog

2006-12-13T16:46:00.000-08:00

On the first day God created the dog. God said,"Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years."The dog said, "That's too long to be barking.Give me ten years and I'll give you back the other ten." So God agreed. On the second day God created the monkey. God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks, make them

American Heart Updates for ACLS/BLS

2006-12-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

Every so many years there is a major change in ACLS and or BLS. In 2000 there were some major changes and last year there were again changes. As creatures of habit, it is difficult to learn new ways and ideas. To enable you to obtain the latest information. Here are the official links below. They are from the American Heart Association at www.americanheart.orghttp://circ.ahajournals.org/content

Wound websites

2006-12-02T16:55:00.000-08:00

http://www.worldwidewounds.com/http://www.npuap.org National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panelhttp://borun.medsch.ucla.edu/modules/Pressure_ulcer_prevention/step3.htm Wound assessment scales and toolshttp://www.kci1.com/ KCI's Website- Includes information on Wound Vacs and Free Continuing education on wound assessment and care.

JUST DO IT

2006-11-29T08:03:00.000-08:00

Just Do It!People are often unreasonable,Illogical and self-centered:Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse youOf selfish, ulterior motives:Be kind anyway.If you are successful, you willWin some false friends and true enemies:Succeed anyway.If you are honest and frank,People may cheat you;Be honest anyway.What you spend years building,Someone may destroy overnight;Build anyway.If

Medscape, MerckMedicus, and Epocrates

2006-11-22T04:05:00.000-08:00

Invaluable tools onlineMedscape requires a password. The web site is http://www.medscape.com/home .You can opt for them to send newsletters with updates.Merckmedicus also has resources such as online books, patient education resources, professional development, etc.The email address is http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/hcp_home.jspEpocrates has free online access now in addition mobile access

Braden Scale

2006-11-18T16:00:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to a webcast of a lecture on the Braden Scale (skin assessment) by the developer Barbara Braden RN, Ph.D. This scale is used with our assessments on the flow sheets.http://video.biocom.arizona.edu/video/videolibrary/aztelemed/ClinIssuesToday/default.html

DIABETES SITES

2006-11-18T12:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/The CDC has some resources on their home page-http://www.ndep.nih.gov/The NIH has a page for the Diabetes Prevention Program athttp://www.niddk.nih.gov/National Institue of Health (NIH) also has resourses for diabetes and kidney disease http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabetes.html The NLMhttp://www.joslin.org/ Joslin Diabetes Centerhttp://

Computing on a budget

2006-11-17T17:41:00.000-08:00

If you like computers but can't afford software you now have no excuse!! A free opensource Office Suite is Open Office. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a database program , a presentation, and a drawing program. In addition to being free, it is also compatible with the "monopoly's" suite. There are even advantages to using it. It can save in PDF files which at the present the

Being a Nurse

2006-11-17T16:52:00.000-08:00

Being a Nurse Means...You will never be bored.You will always be frustrated.You will be surrounded by challenges,So much to do and so little time.You will carry immense responsibility and very little authority.You will step into people's lives and you will make a difference.Some will bless youSome will curse youYou will see people at their worst~~and at their best.You will never cease to be

COMPRESSION HOSE

2006-11-17T10:32:00.000-08:00

Here is an article on compression hose- something to think about-http://www.rnweb.com/rnweb/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=362277

Nurses Christian Fellowship

2006-11-13T18:28:00.000-08:00

Nurses Christian Fellowship http://ncf.intervarsity.org/ now publishes the Journal of Christian Nursing through Lippencott.http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/index.asp#journals

Atrium: Chest Drainage

2006-09-17T17:57:00.000-07:00

Atrium: Chest Drainage

Chest Pain - CardiologyChannel

2006-09-17T17:50:00.000-07:00

Chest Pain - CardiologyChannel is a web page that discusses cardiac related conditions as well as diagnostic tests.

Modems

2006-03-01T16:27:00.000-08:00

In the late 80s my brother brought me a 300 baud modem and got me signed up with Compuserve. At that time you only received 3 hours a month and then were charged after that. If you only used it for mail this was fine. The world wide web did not exist and everything was text based. However you could download gif files to view a picture on the computer. This usually took an hour to download.The

DIABETIC SITES

2005-02-26T16:46:00.000-08:00

Here are a few websites relating to diabetes:American Diabetes Association Homepage http://www.diabetes.org/home.jspBD Diabetes homepage http://www.bddiabetes.com American Association of Diabetic Educators http://www.aadenet.org/Diabetes in Control weekly news http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/BD insulin injection demonstration http://www.bddiabetes.com/us/demos/injecting.aspJoslin Diabetes

Infection Control Links

2005-02-14T00:11:00.000-08:00

Infection Control Links Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/APIC http://www.apic.orgClinical Infectious Disease Online Journal http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/home.html Emerging Infectious Disease Journal http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htmOhio Department of Health http://www.odh.state.oh.us/