Given the popularity and prevalence of twitter, I put together a list of 50 different nurses on Twitter that you can follow to potentially get some insight on their medical lives. If you wouldn’t mind, could you share my list with your readers?

Here’s the post:

http://blog.onlinecollegeguru.com/health-care/50-nurses-you-can-follow-on-twitter/

Many thanks!
Richard

Let me guess, you must be from Belgium, where the chocolate is great and incest and euthenasia are legal according to http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/372607/little_known_facts_about_belgium.html. Here in America, those things are illegal, but then again, you’re right… most people in the world are evil as you said. Or did you mean, most people in the world have the same perception as you do, that America is the embodiment of all evil?

Here’s the truth… despite the fact that your perception of America is skewed, America does a lot of good in terms of helping other nations, in terms of preserving human rights and human dignity, and in terms of caring for the environment, and not to mention leading the world in science and technology innovation. No other nation on earth will be as great as America, not even Belgium. Sadly one day America will rule the world and dictate a new world order, and Belgium will have to go with the flow, but there is hope. I can share you that hope if you are willing to listen. Unfortunately, it seems like you’re mind is closed judging from your email user name, “Madfranki40″, which by the way is from hotmail.com… an American based company. You’ve heard the saying before, “a mind is like a parachute… it only works if it is open”… I hope yours is. Hope you have a wonderful day in Belgium… living in America, I know I have!

All I can say is … “woe unto the inhabitants of the earth!” With this piece of junk software you might as well pack your bags, bring a tent and sing Kum Ba Ya around the bonfire because you’ll be practically spending 50% of your time charting. It takes approximately 20 min to fill up and admission assessment and about 15 min to do shift assessment, of course factoring in interruptions that you’ll have to respond to while you do your documentation. 6 to 9 patients will definitely eat up your time, not to mention the slow response of the system, the multiple clicks and double entries you’ll have to make, plus canceling redundantly scheduled assessments.

I used to work in telemetry with 5 to 8 patients, and it was tough. Now I’m in ICU, with 2 to 3 patients the most, definitely better than 6 to 9 patients. The first few months will be tough… you’ll have a lot of reason to go overtime tho… take advantage of this (LOL), then once you’re used to the system, you can make use of the “comments” section so you don’t have to go through a convoluted array of check boxes and drop down menus. Eventually the excitement will die off, and you’ll hate going to work! This piece of software is a drag to use. It doesn’t make any sense and it doesn’t conform to the way we work, although I can say I’ve made a tremendous amount of suggestions which they have incorporated that made it a little better, but overall they need to redesign the system from scratch. I do want to meet the marketing genius behind this because they practically sold snow to snowmen. Overall management wouldn’t care because they are all afraid. I hope your director has balls and would defend your unit from stupid decisions made by corporate. Good luck!

(Jesus, I could only imagine how my above statements would get embarassing if a foreigner tried to say them:-)