bigbaldguy
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[insert obvious cliche regarding hot companion and a police box]
Charge of heresy has been withdrawn my bad. Still she's no red head in a police uniform, just saying.
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Charge of heresy has been withdrawn my bad. Still she's no red head in a police uniform, just saying.
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I love the pseudo-seizing patients who's entire knowledge of seizures is off of TV. Especially when they call at 2am. :glare:
Anjel
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Me: any medical problems?
Patient: Doctor says I have a rare seizure disorder.
Me: Oh what's it called?
Patient: pseudo seizure disorder.
Patient: Doctor says I have a rare seizure disorder.
Me: Oh what's it called?
Patient: pseudo seizure disorder.
DesertMedic66
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Pseudo seizure patients are only transported by a CCT unit here :lol: :lol:
Does she have a sister or daughter over the age of 18?:lol:
Or other female family at or older than 18 in or around the Boston area?
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Looks like I get to make a call to our county health department. Got into a small arguement with a SNF. The SNF wants us (EMS) to take off all our BSI when we enter their facility. They let us put it back on once we get in the patients room but can't wear it anywhere else.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to take off my BSI stuff when our patient is in contact isolation. Even if I'm not touching the patient I'm still touching the gurney. They are they only SNF in the county that makes us take everything off.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to take off my BSI stuff when our patient is in contact isolation. Even if I'm not touching the patient I'm still touching the gurney. They are they only SNF in the county that makes us take everything off.
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So what is their reason for wanting you to remove BSI?
abckidsmom
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Not wanting to expose the patients in the hallways to the contagions of the patient.
Or so I would guess.
I can see keeping gloves on to push a contact iso patient, but that's all.
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"we got in trouble by county health because our nurses kept coming out of patients rooms and still had their gloves on. And then they would go and touch stuff in the hallway."
.... We aren't employed by them. There is a difference between their nurses and us. I'm not gonna be touching anything in the hallway.
This would make sense. I keep my gloves on(after getting a fresh pair) but leave gown, mask(patient will be masked) etc in the room to not spread whatever around.
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abckidsmom
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I'm gonna be in fairfax for July 4th. I've always wanted to be on he mall for independence day.
15 miles. But I would never take my little kids into that insanity.
DesertMedic66
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I don't have an issue with taking off the gown. But they want it all of including the gloves on. So I end up using 3-4 pairs of gloves for one simple IFT.
I think my wife is planning for us to be on the mall most of the 4th. She warned me on what to expect-and I hate crowds.
Except for DC we'll be in Hampton with her parents.
DC has the usual museums and American history stuff. It's been 15 years since I was last there so I'm not really sure what to expect.
abckidsmom
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If you are a dork and will appreciate these things, go to the spy museum, the national archives, and visit the Jefferson memorial at night.
If you can, it is so worth it to walk across the 14th st bridge from the mall to Arlington. But it's several miles, brin some water. I love walking across the Potomac river.
Visit the house at Arlington and think about how interesting the politics were when they started burying American dead on the estate of Robert E Lee's wife in 1864.
Visit the Jefferson Memorial at night. It was the highlight of our trip to the Kennedy Center for Mary Poppins last year. I got to hear my 8 yo read the opening lines of the declaration of independence, standing in a round marble hall. Very fun.
Eat lunch at the museum of the native American. Super delicious ethnic foods.
Watch a movie at air and space. It's he only air conditioned sit down thing in the whole city.
For less expensive lunch, eat at the old post office food court. Go up in the bell tower for a birds eye view without the line of the monument.
For a fun, slightly more expensive, but OMG WHAT AN AWESOME FOOD COURT experience, try union stations food court.
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Nighttime monuments! YES!
Go to the Korean War Memorial, that's an awe-inspiring one. Oh, and don't buy bottled water from the street vendors, go grab one at a convenience store or bodega.
Go to the Korean War Memorial, that's an awe-inspiring one. Oh, and don't buy bottled water from the street vendors, go grab one at a convenience store or bodega.
Agreed. I stayed a hotel just kiddie corner to union station, and I had breakfast there every day. (Love Au Bon Pain!)
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Oh yes. I first saw the Korean war memorial with my husbands uncle, an actual Korea vet. It was Saturday, the week of 9/11/01 and he was wearing his VFW hat that identified him as such. Several people stopped him and thanked him for his service. He was in tears.
It's a really neat monument.
Side note: a cousin or something from my mom's family was a signer of the declaration. There's a monument to the signers around a little pond on the wet side of the reflection pool. I have only found it once. His name was something Stockton. Can't remember right now. Right to the left as you enter the circle.