This is an article dealing with children. What about adults? Do they weigh both children and adults in kilograms or just children?
From: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 2014-06-01 23:09 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: USMA Subject: [USMA:53902] Re: Associations Identify Using Metric Weights as Key to Avoiding Medication Errors with Pediatric Patients Looks like there was an extra dot in the URL. Here is the link that worked for me: http://www.ena.org/about/media/PressReleases/Pages/Associations.aspx Thanks for passing this along! :-) Ezra -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] To: "Ezra, Steinberg" <[email protected]>, "USMA" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 8:02:09 PM Subject: Associations Identify Using Metric Weights as Key to Avoiding Medication Errors with Pediatric Patients Ezra. In response to your question, Julie sent (via Facebook) this link to me: http://www.ena.org/about/media/PressReleases/Pages/Associations..aspx ----- Message from [email protected] --------- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 01:42:37 +0000 (UTC) From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:53899] Re: News from the Future To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: USMA <[email protected]> Is there any particular organization or other specific source for this initiative in ER nursing to weigh all patients only in kilograms? thanks, Ezra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: "USMA" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 5:54:37 PM Subject: [USMA:53897] News from the Future My friend Julie Grant Bickers a Registered Nurse in Terre Haute, Indiana responds to my blog (via Facebook) telling me about "an initiative in ER nursing that all weights on patients are to be in kg due to weight based medication dosing. We do not use pounds at all anymore. It is a step." ----- Message from Facebook <[email protected]> --------- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 17:07:47 -0700 From: Facebook <[email protected]> Reply-To: Reply to Comment <e+06gwuoc000zg5axz8gi0037xi0wwcuh0000000000000000000000002n...@reply.facebook.com> Subject: Julie Grant Bickers commented on a link you shared. To: David Pearl <[email protected]> Julie wrote: "FYI.. it is an initiative in ER nursing that all weights on patients are to be in kg due to weight based medication dosing. We do not use pounds at all anymore. It is a step." - Reply to this email to comment on this link. facebook Julie Grant Bickers commented on a link you shared. Julie wrote: "FYI... it is an initiative in ER nursing that all weights on patients are to be in kg due to weight based medication dosing. We do not use pounds at all anymore. It is a step." Reply to this email to comment on this link. See Comment This message was sent to [email protected]. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc., Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 ----- End message from Facebook <[email protected]> ----- David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 ----- End message from [email protected] ----- David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
