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Terms of Use
This is a personal blog, with a focus on nursing-related. The content within the blog belongs solely to myself, as the blog owner and original author of it’s content. The information provided on and taken from my blog is at the reader’s own risk. The reading of my blog is of your own free will.
Views Expressed Disclaimer
The views or opinions represented in this blog are my own and belong solely to myself, the blog owner. They do not necessarily represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner may or may not be associated with in professional or personal capacity, unless explicitly stated. Any views or opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, or individual.
Nothing written on this website will ever superseded your governing bodies or employer’s rules and regulations. This information was developed with the nurse practicing in the United States in mind and no attempt or effort has been made to ensure that it is appropriately transferable to any other country.
While patient scenarios are discussed, identifying details have been changed to protect their privacy and ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
As the owner of this blog, I will not be held responsible for any comments on this blog from other users, and their opinions do not necessarily reflect my own. As the owner of this blog, I reserve the right to monitor, change, or delete any comments from other users without notice if they are considered profane, offensive, spam or questionably spam, or contain hate speech, credible threats, or direct attacks on an individual or group.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that I am not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. I encourage users to be aware when they leave this site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share official buttons
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
Liability Disclaimer
My recommendations purely reflect my own opinions and beliefs. The information that I provide on this blog is, to the best of my knowledge and research, accurate, but I am human and make mistakes. Therefore, there may be unintentional omissions, errors, and mistakes. If notified of these errors, I will take action to correct them to the best of my ability. I will not be held liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. I will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. I will not be held liable for any damages arising from clicking on or relying on third-party links.
Technical Issues
I take no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control. I will do whatever I can to notify readers if there is such an issue, but I reserve the right to work on the matter privately, without notice.
Reservation of Rights Disclaimer
I reserve the right to change, edit, or remove the content of this blog under my own discretion. I reserve the right to change how this blog is managed and run. I reserve the right to change focus or the content of this blog at any time without notice. I reserve the right to monitor, change, or delete any comments from other users without notice if they are considered profane, offensive, spam or questionably spam, or contain hate speech, credible threats, or direct attacks on an individual or group.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media
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Cookies
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How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Copyright Policy/Disclaimer
This site contains copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law, which allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expresses a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information, click here.
Images
All images are either of my own creation, or their source/photo credit is stated. A large percentage are from Pixabay and Google Images- if you identify any images that are sourced from Google Images, and you would like them removed or credit added, please contact me via my contact page.
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for the purposes of your own that go beyond “fair use”, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.