Registered nurses, also called RNs, are professional nurses who often supervise the tasks performed by LPNs, orderlies, and nursing assistants. They provide direct care and make decisions regarding the care for healthy, ill, and injured people. They have a diploma, associate degree, bachelor's degree, or master's degree in nursing at entry level, and after passing state board examinations, are granted the title registered nurse. Regardless of degree, RNs have many hours of clinical experience before graduating. Nurses use medical equipment and supplies all day. Nurses need to use the highest quality medical equipment and supplies. QuickMedical is your online source for medical equipment and supplies for nurses.
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. National Nurses Week is an important time to recognize the accomplishments and work of nurses across the nation. It's also an important time to remember there is actually a shortage of nurses.
There's no shortage at QuickMedical of medical equipment and supplies for nurses, however. Nurses from around the world choose QuickMedical for the medical equipment and supplies they need.
Despite what this picture looks like, nurses in the 1950's did not have QM Elite nitrile exam gloves. Medical equipment and supplies have come a long way from the days of Florence Nightingale, and further still from the days of this picture. Today nitrile exam gloves are an important medical supply for nurses, along with many medical products undreamt of in the 1950's.
China confirmed six new cases of human H7N9 avian influenza on Sunday April 21. While China is a very large ocean away from the west coast of the USA, avian flu shouldn't be taken lightly. A total of 33 cases, including 11 that have ended in death, have been reported in Shanghai. According to the Chinese government the confirmed H7N9 cases are isolated and there has been no sign of human-to-human transmission. Pictured above is a seven-year-old girl who tested positive for the H7N9 avian influenza virus and her parents at a Chinese press conference. She's doing fine and has not spread the virus to anyone.
Traveling around the world was at one time only something available to the very rich or very adventurous. Today, transoceanic travel by air is commonplace. As the world becomes smaller, the odds of serious diseases spreading throughout the world in a relatively short time become greater.
In Asia, the medical facemask has become iconic. Face masks, along with proper hand hygiene are the best defenses against flus of all kinds. Currently, the bird flu outbreak in China is not considered a pandemic, but the possibility exists due to the highly contagious nature of the the flu virus.
QuickMedical is your online source for medical face masks. We'll keep you posted on the latest news from around the world on potential disease outbreaks. If you have questions or comments, click ahead to post.
The earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness can be found in Geoffery Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In the "Nun Priest's Tale," a tricky fox and proud rooster have a battle of wits that's not quite as funny as some of the other tales, but makes a direct connection with the date being known for trickery. While the ancient Romans had a spring festival called Hilaria, in which pranks were a part, it wasn't until the late 18th century that the day was commonly celebrated and known as "April Fools' Day."
According to Alex Boese, the holiday came into being because of changes in the modern calendar. Up until the late 18th century some European towns still celebrated spring as the start of the new year. Dates for New Year celebrations ranged from March 25th to April 1st. As the modern Gregorian calendar came into use, with January 1 being celebrated as the first day of the new year, people who still celebrated the new year in spring were called fools.
Today in Italy, France and Belgium, children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back as a trick and shout "April fish!" Meanwhile in the USA many companies issue phony press releases or goofy blogs to entertain and drum up word of mouth.
Getting the medical equipment and supplies you need is no laughing matter, however. You can count on QuickMedical to be your trusted source for online medical equipment and supplies.
Happy April Fools' Day from QuickMedical!
CEO Scott Hanna has a recipe for perfect smoked chicken legs using the Traeger wood pellet Texas Smoker. In the video above watch as Scott fires up the grill, seasons the chicken legs from Costco with Johnny's seasoning, and smokes up to 60 chicken legs in the smoker for over 2 hours on the 180 degree temperature setting.
Remember to avoid spreading salmonella, handle the raw chicken using QM Elite nitrile gloves. The gloves also work when turning the chicken on the grill, because they can withstand the high temperatures of the smoker. Click read more for step by step instructions.
Watch this video. In it-- Tony, from QuickMedical's warehouse team, wins a dramatic and tense round of Bull Poker at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds rodeo in Monroe. The tense lead up is followed by a shocking endgame. While many Bull Poker players might be tempted to stand up from the table earlier, all the players in this match stayed sitting until the dramatic conclusion. When the finale came, the other players were forced to flee, while Tony remained the last man sitting.
It's no bull that if you're a large animal owner or rodeo enthusiast, QuickMedical has a variety of equine cohesive compression bandages which are ideal for use with large rodeo animals. Of course, if you're the loser in Bull Poker, you'll probably need your own compression bandages, a cold compress, and aspirin.
According to a new article in the UK Guardian, "Antibiotic-resistant bacteria with the potential to cause untreatable infections pose 'a catastrophic threat' to the population."
"'If tough measures are not taken to restrict the use of antibiotics and no new ones are discovered, said Dame Sally Davies, England's chief medical officer, "we will find ourselves in a health system not dissimilar to the early 19th century at some point.'"
Incidence of MRSA has gone down worldwide due to clear hand hygiene protocols being followed, anti-microbial table paper, and other necessary precautions, but in general, antibiotic resistant bacteria are still on the rise. Due to antibiotic over-use over the last 50 years, bacteria have undergone a process known as microevolution in which common disease causing bacteria, such as the bacteria that cause strep throat and pneumonia, are becoming harder to kill with traditional antibiotic treatment.
The Guardian article states, "As many as 5,000 patients die each year in the UK of gram negative sepsis, where the bacterium gets into the bloodstream, and in half the cases the bacterium is resistant to drugs." Strep infections which have often been treated with penicillin are mutating, specifically in the penicillin- binding proteins. E. coli and Clostridium difficile are also bacteria known to be particularly hard to treat with antibiotics.
What can medical professionals do? Click ahead to read about stopping the SuperBugs.
At QuickMedical you can find medical equipment and supplies for not only human, but also animal patients. We have several veterinary products for the vet clinic or animal hospital. Today on the blog we'll feature some veterinarian facts-- QuickMedical's Top 10 Veterinary Products. Click ahead to read the list. (Pictured right: Dr. Stephen Katz, Bronx Veterinarian and politician courtesy Wikicommons.)
People often get depressed during the holidays. Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's realization that the year is coming to an end, or maybe it's just too much Christmas music. Whatever the reason, it's easy to be a Pessimistic Pete when you look at the world. Famine, war, and disease around the world while here in the USA, both small and large tragedies create a very unpleasant picture of planet earth in 2012.
That being said, if you're reading this, you've got a great deal to be grateful for. What's the good news you're not reading about in the news? Why was 2012 the best year, ever? According to The Spectator, in 1990, the UN announced the goal to halve the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. That the target was actually met in 2008! While income inequality is growing in industrialized nations, incomes are stabilizing in developing nations and wealth is actually being spread in those countries more evenly. Even more interesting, while the industrialized economies grew by 6 per cent over the last seven years, fossil fuel consumption in those countries actually fell by 4 per cent. And speaking of fossil fuels, new technologies in mining fossil fuels developed in the last few years mean that despite what you might have read about energy consumption, we live in a time of relative energy abundance. The average life expectancy in Africa, the poorest continent in the world, reached 55 this year; ten years ago, it was 50. The number of people dying from AIDS has been in decline for the last eight years. Deaths from malaria have fallen by a fifth in half a decade. The Peace Research Institute in Oslo says there have been fewer war deaths in the last decade than any time in the last century. Yes, things are on an upswing, relatively speaking, in comparison with the last 2,000 years of human history. The majority of people throughout the course of history were basically tied to the land, and farming for their own subsistence. In 2012, this number is shrinking every day.
QuickMedical had an extremely successful 2012 and there are some great things on the horizon for 2013. In 2013 getting medical equipment and supplies for your clinic has never been easier. Just point, click, and order from your PC. Online shopping for your hospital or health related business is safe, secure, and fast.
Happy New Year from QuickMedical!
According to Terence McKenna, an American ethnobotanist, philosopher, and, researcher, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms.
While most rational people predict nothing out of the ordinary will happen December 21st, 2012, just because most rational people believe something doesn't make it more or less real. A world ending cataclysm predicted by a well-meaning, but obviously drug addled prognosticator might not be likely, but it's not impossible.
What's the worst that could happen? Turns out-- quite alot.
Part of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 signed by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2010 includes a 2.3% excise tax on the first sale of certain medical devices. The tax in the act applies to revenues, not profits. A company with a 2% profit margin would be taxed in excess of its ability to pay. The medical devices excise tax will take effect after December 31, 2012. Any sales prior to this are not affected. What does this mean for the medical equipment and medical supplies industry?