Mesquite:

Let me clarify you’re confusion of OSHA’S coverage. If a company is not Incorporated, the owner is therefore not an employee, so he/she personally is not covered by OSHA. HOWEVER, if he/she has employees, they (employees not the owner) ARE covered. If a company is Incorporated, the owner is also an employee and he/she is also covered with their employees.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/…..workplace/

I bet you can’t guess which party this caring company is closely affiliated with?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA…..cf.00.html

The rest of what you wrote are some of the basic reasons why this project was put onto the shelf. The nurses (in Informatics and the governing board) feel that charting and then administering the injection is *not* a good practice to set without the attending physician at least first signing off on the order. They also think the attending should make the call in the first place, not them.

Sounds like good reasoning to me. I had an unplanned trip to an ER last year, and one of the things they needed to do was give me a DPT shot.

So I told the nice young doctor, “I’m allergic to most flu vaccines (duck egg albumen) can you check with the Pharmacy and make sure that’s not in there?” He looked a little startled and went off to place the call.

The nurse came in awhile later with the shot and a big grin — turns out DPT vaccine is safe for me (nice to know). She said my question had caused a flurry of activity in the Pharmacy…

I only wonder in the name of honesty, and the fact that if a Democrat did this it would be out that the D wasn’t a real rancher.

Even a born-n-bred Connecticut Yankee like me (who tirelessly tells people that Nutmeggers aren’t like Shrub or Ann Coulter) knows that ranching only refers to animals one herds, like cattle, goats and sheep.

Can someone who really knows clear this up? Thanx!

Christine — will the “collected information” show the patient’s allergies?

Were you aware that some patients are allergic to the medium the virus in a vaccine is cultured in?

I don’t blame a nurse for not wanting to give an immunization without a doctor’s authorization and signature.

Anaphylactic shock can kill in less than 20 minutes. And if there’s no doctor authorizing the administering of the vaccine, guess who’s going to be blamed if the patient dies?

Some might consider the above practicing medicine without a license — and that carries some pretty harsh penalties. I’m on the nurses side in this one.

You bet your sweet patotie that if ‘we’ know about an allergic reation, it’ll have been recorded. And I spefically look for allergies before thinking about adding the order (I’m the one writing out the code in the programs.). If we know for sure how many vaccines they’ve received, it’s documented and if there’s a documentation of 2 or more, no go. Also if the patient is over 65 years of age and has received one at that age, no more. There’s a few other things that will make the order a no go.

The rest of what you wrote are some of the basic reasons why this project was put onto the shelf. The nurses (in Informatics and the governing board) feel that charting and then administering the injection is *not* a good practice to set without the attending physician at least first signing off on the order. They also think the attending should make the call in the first place, not them.

We need to reply:

“If you vote for Republicans, *Republicans* will kill you.”

Harsh? Yes. Bolder than usual? You bet. But false? Things to think about before you say it’s wrong: Katrina. Iraq. 9/11. Resistance to the HPV vaccine. Women’s reproductive freedom. Arresting/torturing/killing innocent/random people under the color of law. Resistance to the climate change consensus. Disdain for science and the reality-based community. Pet food. And now people food.

If you vote for Republicans, Republicans will kill you.

Clusterfuck now apparently blaming the “terrorists” for high gas prices. He’s right of course- but the terrorists are hiding in the board room of Exxon-Mobil.

But but but, there has been no terroist act on US soild since 9/11! So they can’t be terrorists.

Yes, someone exposed to chemicals in the 1990s has only one President to blame – the future President Bush.

If only there were someone who was President at that time and in charge of OSHA who could have done something.