I am a Licensed Practical Nurse in Oklahoma (LPN). I have been in the medical related field for 21 years now. I started out as a nurse's aide in Kansas in 1977, then an ambulance driver in Texas, back before you really had to know any medical stuff to operate an ambulance. That taught me alot real fast....
I was in the medical field in the military and was apart of Operation Desert Storm, stationed in Weisbaden, Germany. After returning home from active duty I attended EMT-I school and obtained that license. After that I started pursing a nursing career in the "Civilian" world, and graduated from Redlands Community College with an Associates Degree in Nursing. (Now all I gotta do is pass the RN state boards!!)
I've worked as an LPN for a small rural hospital for 2 years then went to being an agency nurse. Agency nursing is a nurse that works for a company instead of a hospital, nursing home, or home health agency & travels to different hospitals across the state. I've enjoyed doing that for 4 years now. It's challenging and a change of scenery every time you go to work at a different place.
FDA acknowledges powdered gloves risky
WASHINGTON(AP)
It seemed innocuous: Put powder on latex gloves and hurried hospital workers could pull them off more easily. But Scientists now say that powder's dust spreads life-threatening latex allergens, strong enough that a few whiffs have sent nurses into shock.
A consumer group urged the goverment Wednesday to ban powdered latex gloves. The Food and Drug Administration acknowledged a serious problem and pledged to write rules quickly to minimize the danger, but stopped short of agreeing to a ban.
"Powdered latex gloves are a serious, unnecessary menace in hospitals and other health care facilities all aver the country," said Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Publi Citizen Health Research Group. "Safer alternatives such as powder-free gloves are easily and currently available".
supplied by the Enid News, Enid, OK, 1/8/98.
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Dear Lord please give me strength
Dear Lord please give me wisdom
Dear Lord please give assurance
To face the day ahead,
Dear Lord please give me courage
As I approach each hurting bed.
With every word I speak,
Dear Lord please give me patience
As I comfort the sick and weak.
As the day slips into night
That I have done the best I can
That I have done what's right.
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Xeloda (capecitabine)
The FDA has approved Roche's Xeloda, an oral antineoplastic agent for treatment of metastatic breast cancer in patients resistant to both Taxol (paclitaxel), and an anthracycline-containing regimen (eg, idarubicin, doxorubicin, daunorubicin). The indication is based on response rate; 18.5% of patients experienced a rduction in tumor size. Since this is an accelerated approval by the FDA, Roche must continue to evaluate clinical benefits of the drug.
source is Nurses Drug News, Facts and Comparisons, June 1998, vol 2, issue 6.
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