Oliver Tatom, RN @olivertatom

Registered Nurse and paramedic. I'm passionate about supporting people to stay healthy and safe in an increasingly complex word. olivertatom.com Deschutes County, OR Joined May 2008

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Oliver Tatom, RN @olivertatom

4 years ago

@greggwrites As @CoachBalto says: "School pick-up lines are a policy failure." x.com/CoachBalto/sta…

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4 years ago

School pick up line is a policy failure part 6

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4 years ago

@TheGaryWarner You should totally buy one! Really, who doesn’t need a Multi-Mission Aerial Refueling Aircraft?

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4 years ago

Words to live by.

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4 years ago

@OregonAt100 1905 - the year a sitting US senator was convicted of fraud against the backdrop of the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition. An exciting news year in Oregon!

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4 years ago

@LintEric So gross.

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4 years ago

@womencookhere It’s 5 o’clock somewhere…

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4 years ago

@Jmahan96 Build spreadsheets and slide decks. Read and send emails. Talk on the phone. Attend innumerable meetings.

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@skywaker9 Bummer! My family has still managed to dodge it, but my daughter is currently sick with a (non-Covid) cold so I know it’s partly luck. It will eventually get us all, so at this point the game really becomes minimizing the number of reinfections. Godspeed!

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4 years ago

@LukeEpplin @katrinagulliver Me: But there *have* been art— oh, I see what you did there…

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4 years ago

@Jmahan96 As a clinic manager, I had a psych np student drop in to ask if a physician was willing to take her for a brief medical assessment rotation. I finally found a doc willing, but then the health system said no - they only allowed np students who currently worked for us.

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Oliver Tatom, RN @olivertatom

4 years ago

@Jmahan96 Yes. Very common, unfortunately. And I’m the present climate of high burnout it can be hard to find willing preceptors, which makes it harder to complete the program on time.

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Oliver Tatom, RN @olivertatom

4 years ago

@JoniAudenLand What I learned in EMS (and continue to do today) is to buy groceries for healthy lunches/snacks, then pack them every work day, and stick to what I pack. Otherwise, yeah, you just end up filing up with candy and junk food.

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Oliver Tatom, RN @olivertatom

4 years ago

@Boenau Additionally, many of the providers I worked with walked or biked to the clinic and want better infrastructure, but they are beyond burned out and barely have the energy to advocate for improvements within their own system, let alone to outside institutions.

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Oliver Tatom, RN @olivertatom

4 years ago

@Boenau Having worked with several physicians and advanced practice providers, I can assure you they get no financial incentive for prescribing, and they’d all prefer patients control their chronic conditions via lifestyle modifications.