Day: February 18, 2018

pirate-autobot:

asynca:

knittinggothgirl:

bobcatmoran:

lacommunarde:

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:

the-real-seebs:

valkyrie-mode:

beachgirlnikita:

thememacat:

sauvamente:

tanaje:

jadorexjaii:

diaryofaprettycurse:

jehovahhthickness:

You can’t be serious… that shit is soooooo unsafe for the patient and taxing on nurse 😩

As a nursing major this hurts me. It’s already hard enough taking care of someone who cannot take care of themselves but NOW we don’t have the materials needed to administer care. This pisses me off 😒

Man what the fuck

He’s telling the truth, I currently work at a hospital and there is a nationwide shortage of IV fluid bags. So bad that they’re referring to alternative methods like medications that can be administered orally or like the post above. Smh

Not to mention the shortage of antibiotics

WTF??

Some 40% of drugs and supplies used in the US were manufactured in PR. Drug shortages were predicted after the hurricane and now they are starting to happen.  Since PR doesn’t seem to be considered to be part of the US by this administration, help to fix it has been short and late in coming, which means that drug shortages will only get worse.

Are we great yet?

in the children’s hospital i was rotating at we weren’t changing central line tubing (lines that go.. directly to your heart, as in, not something you want infected) for six days instead of 3 due to shortages

what the fuck

this is sort of horrifying

More than half of my clients have had to have their entire medication regimens reworked. Medication regimens that they had been stable and supported on for months or years. Medication regimens that had helped them steadily improve and progress in their lives had to be thrown out the window and completely started over by trial and error again because their medications are no longer available.

People are dying in Puerto Rico and people are going to die on the continental US as well.

Merck’s main manufacturing facility is in PR, if you want a name.

The FDA actually put out a press release on this today. Apparently it’s not just the IV bags, but the fluids as well that are in short supply. There’s a (worryingly long) list of drugs and related paraphenelia experiencing shortages [here].

Press release was 1/5/2018

Oh my god so THIS is why my anti-depressants are unavailable!! I had to go to 7 chemists to find one that had any left!!

Look, I live in Australia and because of your stupid racist president and government loads more people all around the world might die because they can’t get their meds

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-so-many-medicines-arel-in-short-supply-after-hurricane-maria/

New press release 2/12/2018

Hurricane Maria isn’t the only culprit. “It’s important to understand that drug shortages were a huge problems well before the disaster in Puerto Rico,” Fox explained. The hurricane made a bad situation much worse and brought to light how complex the U.S. drug distribution system can be, Louissaint added…

Tracking drug shortages due to quality and manufacturing problems is challenging because pharmaceutical companies believe where a product is made and how the plant operates are trade secrets, Fox explained. Companies are not required to disclose where drugs are made. That said, the FDA checks for pharmaceutical quality and can take action against companies that are falling short. In many instances, Fox tracks a shortage after the FDA sends a warning letter to a drug maker because of quality problems.

Source: ithelpstodream

Medicaid Assisted Living Services: Improved Federal Oversight of Beneficiary Health and Welfare is Needed

autisticadvocacy:

Content Note: institutionalization, violence

“More than half of the 48 states providing [Medicaid assisted living] services couldn’t tell us the number or nature of critical incidents in assisted living facilities.”

Medicaid Assisted Living Services: Improved Federal Oversight of Beneficiary Health and Welfare is Needed

Gun Control Republicans Should Consider: GRVOs | National Review

fierceawakening:

conservativeleague:

This actually is very reasonable and 2nd Amendment advocates would be foolish not to consider it.

To understand the American gun-control debate, you have to understand the fundamentally different starting positions of the two sides. Among conservatives, there is the broad belief that the right to own a weapon for self-defense is every bit as inherent and unalienable as the right to speak freely or practice your religion. It’s a co-equal liberty in the Bill of Rights, grounded not just in the minds of the Founders but in natural law.

Against this backdrop, most forms of gun control proposed after each mass killing represent a collective punishment. The rights of the law-abiding are restricted with no real evidence that these alleged “common sense” reforms will prevent future tragedies in any meaningful way.

Many progressives, however, simply don’t care about restrictions on gun ownership. They don’t view it as an individual right, much less an unalienable one. To them, the Second Amendment is an embarrassment, an American quirk that should be limited and confined as much as possible. To them, gun ownership is a privilege, not a right, and can be heavily regulated and restricted without doing any violence at all to individual liberty.

To describe these differences is not to say that the two sides never meet. Putting aside the relatively meaningless polls about various gun-control measures — the polls that truly matter are at the ballot box, and there the results are very clear and very distinct for both red and blue — there is broad conceptual agreement that regardless of whether you view gun ownership as a right or a privilege, a person can demonstrate through their conduct that they have no business possessing a weapon.

Gun Control Republicans Should Consider: GRVOs | National Review

merak-zoran:

fire-is-her-water:

My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.

When I got her, she’d been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when she’d barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and she’s gotta be excited or she just stares at me like “Sorry, the bork system needs charging”) and she’ll do it happily when she’s excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.