icombs

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1. Lazy Student Nurse Preceptors!

   icombs replied to jfpruitt's topic in General Nursing

   What were the options? maybe there were no other nurses avaible, so what does the student do go home because there is no preceptor? Here's a think out of the box idea, maybe the student could have went with the instructor as the instructor monitored...

2. lymphoma, anyone?

   icombs replied to sunnygirl272's topic in Oncology

   I can't hold back any more.... The nurse that said that never let a doctor see you faint was RIGHT..syncope can come from alot of things, and rather than think of the obvious some doctors order a ga-zillion test(esp at teaching hospitals), rather tha...

3. Funny Names for Nurses

   icombs replied to randomnamees's topic in Humor

   I'm a big guy and the only male working with kids and Adults in an Outpatient Oncology Treatment center. a 3 year-old that comes in frequently for chemo, can't remember my name but referrs to me as " you know mom, the big guy the 'Daddy Nurse' ":)

4. HOW TO PUT IN A IV: ANY TIPS

   icombs replied to egmillard's topic in General Nursing

   No one is born knowing how to start IV's, lucky for me I was a paramedic prior to becoming a nurse so I got plenty of practice. Besides practice, a rule of thumb ; tight constricition, and if you got to see and feel it ..thats number one, second i...