YukonSean

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1. How desperate is your state for Nurses?

   YukonSean replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   Your state is probably not represented because its nurses are not unionised. The posted web link is for the United American Nurses (UAN) union. As a Canadian, I am quite surprised to see such little unionisation, only around 20% of American RNs. In C...

2. People complaining about WAGES!!!!

   YukonSean replied to DMR1's topic in General Nursing

   I am not sure which tertiary institution offers the "30 weeks" nurse practitioner qualification course. In Canada, where only 3 of 13 provinces and territories recognise and license NPs, the minimal entry to practice is a graduate (master's) degree, ...

3. Compare Nurses Salaries Across The Nation

   YukonSean replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   I have family in Long Island (Baldwin, Rockville Centre). I've spent loads of time there; I don't think the cost of living is as unaffordable as in the City. I do not know how an RN could survive NYC financially!

4. Men in Nursing/Men in Society

   YukonSean replied to Spidey's mom's topic in Activism

   Yes, you are correct. The patriarchal titles of "nurse", and especially "male nurse" have to go! From now on, I will be a "wellness consultant", because I've always wanted to be a consultant of one sort or another. You too, speak the truth, Twarlik T...

5. Body Hair

   YukonSean replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

   I am yet another Austin Powers clone, male RN. Excuse the pun, but alas, what has happened to us? Look at our emasculated society! Men cannot be, well... men, anymore. Consider our current crop of Hollywood heartthrobs: Leonardo Di Caprio, Val Kilmer...

6. Compare Nurses Salaries Across The Nation

   YukonSean replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   I have very much enjoyed reading this thread. According to one of those RN salary comparator sites I viewed (I cannot recall the URL for the life of me), California nurses apparently rake in the most; I think the starting figure was around $56000 per...

7. Oooohhhh, Now I feel cosmopoliten, do you ALL wear scrubs?

   YukonSean replied to BritishStudent's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, in Canada, the vast majority of nurses wear scrubs these days. During my training, women were not allowed to sport gaudy or jingly jewellery, and were required to have only plain clear nail polish etc. Males had to have hair cut above the colla...

8. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   YukonSean replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   Recently, amongst a lengthy catalogue of numbered orders (pertaining to one of our "frequent flyers"), the doctor had written: "(13) wash this patient's feet ASAP please". I have also often seen etoh ordered for patients with alcohol dependence, or s...

9. non hospital approved abrevations.

   YukonSean replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   High Velocity Lead Therapy; that is hilarious! I am in hysterics reading these. Many of these abbreviations and acronyms are common here, e.g. FLK, FOS, CYB or CYA charting, and of course, my whole ward has now adopted "Code Brown", because I use my ...

10. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    YukonSean replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    Moon rose, Around here, we refer to that phenomenon as "finger-painting". I recently had one confused fellow add some frank red to the chocolate: He yanked out the Foley, with 30 cc still in the balloon.

11. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    YukonSean replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    Katana Perhaps they should search for your turd monster (serpentis faecesentis) in Loch Ness.

12. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    YukonSean replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    My stomach is in knots from reading these vile stories. (Yet, I admit that, as in the "train wreck" phenomenon, I could not stop looking until I reached the last posting on this list.) Why do you think I do psych? I would rather be spat upon than sh...

13. Drug seeking patients?

    YukonSean replied to butter's topic in Safety

    I become somewhat frustrated when we on the list turn into apologists. The expression "drug seeking behaviour" describes just that: patients who come into the hospital looking for drugs. Psychiatric and Emerg nurses must know that we are not talkin...

14. What's the weirdest baby name?

    YukonSean replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I, too, have heard those Femalé stories! I also know that, tragically, fools do go in for soap opera names. Ironically these fads end up becoming normalised, so that the trendy names are suddenly themselves mainstream. Witness the legions of girls, ...

15. PERSONALITY DISORDER/SELF ABUSE

    YukonSean replied to BarbRPN's topic in Psychiatric

    Hello Canoe Head As other subscribers have stated, contracting on admission is negotiated between patient and clinician in order to define not only inpatient rights, but also responsibilities and expectations of conduct while on ward. We all recogni...