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Nursing Officer in the Royal Australian Navy as a Reservist

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For this I was required to complete an internationally recognised course that allows me to provide Command and Government advice on issues that may affect a community in the event of a disaster. Border Protection 2008- Christmas Island. Does the community have running water and medical essentials? Has the food source been affected?

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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In May 2019, Medicaid patients in Vermont who experienced “faster rates of opioid tapering” suffered from “a greater probability of adverse events” than those not tapered or tapered more slowly (8). 2008 Jul-Aug;9(5):531-41. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):161-86. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2008–.

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Gender Affirmations and Sexual Orientations – What Nurses NEED to know

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A definite no for me is the use of the term sex change. Since affirming my gender in 2008 my attraction is to males. Were there events in my early life that should never have happened, but did? But these events did not define how I got to where I am today. Harmless, and a question no one should find confronting.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. And we were specifically interested in looking at patients who had high-risk inpatient procedures. Eric: What are some examples of that? Samir: Yeah.