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For us nightshifters: drowsy driving prevention week

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: Nov. 2-8

November 2, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN  

Can drowsy driving be equated to drunk driving? If you look at the statistics of crashes and deaths caused by sleepy drivers and compare them with those of drunk drivers, it won’t take you long to see the similarity.

The National Sleep Foundation notes that a study in Australia compared various levels of sleepiness with blood alcohol levels and what they found may be surprising. Being awake for:

  • 18 hours equaled a blood alcohol level of 0.05
  • 24 hours equaled 0.10
  • 0.08 is considered to be the level of legally drunk

sleepcartoon_NCIt’s because of numbers like this, the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) is reminding us that November 2 through 8, 2009 is Drowsy Driving Prevention Week. The hope is that a week of awareness may help reduce the estimated 100,000 crashes, which result in more than 1,500 deaths nationwide.

The irony.
I was just ‘complaining’ about feeling drunk after a couple of midnight shifts this weekend .. and I come across this blog!
How eerie.

via mystrongmedicine.com

This increases my happiness that I don't commute anymore.

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Posted November 2, 2009
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NG tube trick du jour (short vid)

http://procedurettes.com/Procedurettes/NG_tube.html

I took out the embedded video because the autoplay was driving me nuts. Go to the site. It's worth a watch if you're a nurse or doc.

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Posted October 14, 2009
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The most gruesomely cool cake ever

via doitmyself.org

My friend Mary Lee sent me this on Facebook.

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Posted October 12, 2009
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Doctor Grumpy: fab post on bureaucrats and insurance

I see people on the news screaming that they don't want "bureaucrats" between them and their doctor, and are afraid that's what government health care will bring.

WTF? THAT'S THE WAY IT IS NOW, PEOPLE!!!

via drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com

With, of course the disclaimer that he's not taking sides. I *heart* Dr. Grumpy.

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Posted September 22, 2009
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AED

Automated external defibrillator at my gym. I like that they have one and that it's prominently displayed. I hope the AED trend catches on even more: it's been shown kids can figure out to use them, and they save lives. I even wish cities would keep lists of the nearest AED! Wish in one hand...

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Posted September 18, 2009
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Prizewinning H1N1 quote from boston.com

We feel that getting immunized is so important," Lammert said. "In some ways, I'm glad H1N1 is out there. It raises awareness of the seriousness of the disease.
via boston.com

This quotation is from a large medical center's chief of medicine. She's glad H1N1 is out there so we'll recongize how serious it is? Hunh? I can't decide whether I'm more disturbed about the idiocy of this statement or about its being published in an actual newspaper.

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Posted September 8, 2009
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Getting inspired about oxygen delivery devices (link)

Typically in nonemergency situations, the healthcare provider will specify which oxygen delivery device to use. Devices can be low-flow or high-flow.

If you're choosing an oxygen delivery device in an emergency, ask yourself which oxygen concentration the device can deliver when connected to an oxygen supply source, and consider if and how the inspired oxygen concentration varies with the oxygen flow rate. The inspired oxygen concentration typically is expressed as a percentage for supplemental oxygen, but can also be expressed as a decimal (FIO2), with values between 0.21 (room air) and 1.0 (equivalent to 100% oxygen).

via nursingcenter.com

This is a good refresher or cheat sheet. I've seen experienced nurses doing some crazy stuff with oxygen therapy, and I don't want to be one. I clipped this one to Evernote.

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Posted September 2, 2009
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Break: slow night, sometimes, and frustration

I went to work sick-ish but had time to actually take a break. A break! I am frustrated because I feel I will never EVER get a grip on all the stuff I need to know to actually be good at my job. I give report to these fab ICU-trained nurses and they immediately point out a dozen things I didn't think of or did wrong. They're nice about it, but I fear I frustrate them unbelievably. I hope I get an A for effort. There is just always something else I don't know!

   

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Posted August 3, 2009
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Medication safety-related snapshots

We now have these red stop signs around all of our Pyxises. Pyxii. No one knows how to pluralize this word. Anyway, I like them. No one can bother you while you are assembling your meds, and if they do you can feel justified in saying, "Hang on." FTW. Secondarily, I had to about a hundred of those online education things they make nurses do constantly, and the one on drug safety made me giggle. It emphasizes throughout the need for careful spelling, cross-checking spelling, and re-checking spelling, yet those slides were RIDDLED with spelling errors (I stopped taking snaps after two because...why?). I love irony. Also, it goes to prove my repeated saying that everyone needs an editor.

     

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Posted August 2, 2009
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Cardiology people: opinions on these Q waves? They're mine.

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Posted July 28, 2009
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