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What are you doing Wednesday, February 8th at 7pm CST (8pm EST)?
Ok, well forget it. Because you just HAVE to come and join me and @SamsClub for a fantastic twitter party with a focus on Hearth Health!
Now I know that joining me and @SamsClub would be enough to entice you to spend and hour getting your tweet on, but Sam’s Club is sweetening the deal by giving away some great prizes!
Tools that make nursing care easier are always in high demand. The Stat Gear S3 Stat is one of those tools. It is a device that holds your tape securely on your stethoscope. I can’t tell you the number of times my tape has went flying across the floor off the earpiece of my stethoscope. So an clever little item like this is welcome in my nursing world.
At $5.99 they are are inexpensive gift that an nurse, EMT or paramedic would surly enjoy. The concept seems so simple, but it’s a good one and keeps your tape close at hand and safe from the floor.
GIANTmicrobes take microscopic, sometimes scary bacteria and body parts and blow them up into a larger than GIANT versions of thier scientific selves. They’re a fun learning aid and cute way to incorproate a little more scient into your life.
As a nurse I spend a large amount of my time attempting to ward off these nasty little boogers, but when you make the cute and cuddly, they become downright charming. I really like the idea of using these in children’s hospitals to teach immune compromised children about their illnesses. Sick kids have a hard enough road to face without fearing what their bodies are facing. The empowerment that having their very own pet germs (GIANTmicrobes) would surely be motivational to any child or adult battling illness.
Hello, my name is The Nerdy Nurse, and I once had a smelly fridge.
Despite increased frequency of cleanings, the baking soda trick, and frequent purging of contents, there just always seemed to be a funk lingering in there.
But fear not fellow smelly fridge owners! Technology has progressed and we have finally arrived at a precipice in anti-stinky ice boxes. The time has come to just say no to a stinky fridge. Thanks to Oransi, and their Ionic Fridge Air Purifier, you never have to be the victim of funky food again.
NURSING2012 Drug Handbook, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, the 32nd edition, best-seller, of the original drug handbook for nurses. It features more that 1,000 generic drugs and 3,000 brand-name drugs. With a focus on highlighting patient safety, there is an updated color photoguide of brand name medications.
The Chef Sleeve is a protective plastic sleeve for the iPad that was originally designed to be used with the iPad while cooking. I wanted to test the functionality for a healthcare provider in the healthcare setting to see if you could these to use the iPad (or iPad 2) with gloves.
Need to Learn the Alphabet? There’s an App for that!
Developed by MonkeyBin, iCan ABC is a fantastic example of the iPad’s charm and benefits to a learning child.
National Nurses Week is kicked off each year on May 6th, Nurse’s Day, and wraps up on May 12th, which also coincides with Florence Nightingale’s birthday. So even though it is a bit belated, I wanted to do something to give back to the nursing community. A great big thank you goes out to http://www.nursinguniforms.net/ [...]
Excited to announce that after utilizing random.org, Melissa was selected as our lovely winner for our Tafford.com Scrubs GC giveaway! She has been contacted and will hopefully be getting a rad new set of scrubs in the near future. Maybe she’ll come let us know what she thinks of them *hint hint* Thank you once again [...]
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