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Bedside ICU RN. Founder/Director of the Safer Nursing Initiative. Systems Architect of the Safernursing.com platform. Editor/Contributor for One Last Pizza Party
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People aren’t lazy, they are burnt out and taking healthier opportunities.

Employee retention is am EMPLOYER problem, not an EMPLOYEE problem.

Started using Obsidian as a mindmap/flow tool. Studying in school and writing notes in a linear fashion is fine, but it makes a huge difference organizing info the way that it's structured in my mind. Yet another way that ADHD/alternative neurotypes have to do more work to search out systems which work for us.
#UPDATE Infected doctors battle China's virus surge At a hospital in Tianjin, around 140 kms (90 miles) southwest of Beijing, AFP on Wednesday saw more than two dozen mostly elderly patients lying on gurneys in public areas of the emergency department ▶️ https://u.afp.com/igS5

It’s. Not. Over.

#China says 37 million people caught #Covid on a single day this week, dwarfing the previous daily record of 4 million set in January 2022

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/325288

China says 37 million people caught Covid on a single day this week, dwarfing the previous daily record of 4 million set in January 2022

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PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. https://www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-recreation/live-news/weather-permitting-photo-blog/933860
It’s been 13 years since we raised the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. That’s the longest period without a raise in the history of the minimum wage. That is egregious.

The WHO’s estimates of the excess mortality in the COVID pandemic got published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2

The WHO estimates 14.8m excess deaths in 2020 and 2021.

This is quite similar to other estimates (e.g. the weekly updated estimates produced by The Economist https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?uniformYAxis=0&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28estimates%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~OWID_WRL).

The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature

Msemburi et al. describe how the World Health Organization has estimated the excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, by month and for 2020 and 2021, and analyse their estimates across the WHO member states, with 14.83 million global excess deaths estimated.

Nature

https://olpp.safernursing.org/the-monster-of-med-errors/

A lot of newer nurses have a major fear about committing med errors. Here's a system that's helped me out a lot.

The Monster of Med Errors

This is part of our recurring Thinking Critically series helping new grads, and nurses in their first year, go a little deeper into the practices they might have seen but may not fully understand. Causing patients harm is one of the biggest concerns that most new nurses have as they

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