Nuggets for June 28

Here's today's installment of interesting items from my perusals on the internet. Enjoy!

On epidemiology (a/k/a My favorite bug)
The MRSA Bug (from Medscape Nurses blog)

How private is your curtain?
Not very if you work in a double or triple room, like I do at Madison. ERnursey talks about Patient Privacy in the ER. The British Journal of Nursing also has an abstract on the issue of patient privacy here. Another article talks about noise shielding curtains, but I have yet to see any more literature about their use.

Non-formulary (a/k/a Stuff you can't have)
On the alternative medicine front, you may enjoy two unusual posts at Hell on White Clogs for June 25 and 26. The best (or most hilarious): an order for shots (not SQ or IM) and a patient dunning letter.

Nuggets for April 8

Here are a few of my favorites from my recent ventures out on the 'net.

Nursing 101 (from ERNursey)
ERNursey, thank you for this post.

Don't buy liability insurance (from My 2 cents)
This is one of my favorite blogs, discussing a very important issue that, for some reason, people tend to gloss over.

Give it time (from tex at weirdnursingtales)
A good, short piece on ED nurses. I'm not there yet, either, Tex, but boy, my BS radar is gettin' pretty sharp!

Chez Recovery and Beyond (from pixelrn)
Boy, Beth, I sure feel for you...been to the IT promised land, escaped to nursing school, and now I'm wondering if I should ever go back. It's just TOO tempting!

Keeping priorities straight, even at the end (from nytimes.com)
The NY Times article about Carnegie-Mellon prof, Randy Pausch and his last lecture.