bradleau

bradleau specializes in Med/surg, ER/ED,rehab ,nursing home.

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1. What did you give up to be in nursing school?

   bradleau replied to negatron's topic in General Students

   First was money for classes, books, and transportation. Time with my family. Of course I learned during the olden days. Have recently retired due to disability. You work holidays, long hours, weird hours, too. A lot of places work you 12 hr sh...

2. Overweight Nurse?

   bradleau replied to MissKatie's topic in Pre-Nursing

   You would likely have a problem working the floor. It is busy, on your feet all the time. Your weight would eventually interfere with your ability to care for your patient. So many IV's, Vents, and the like really make it crowded in some rooms. ...

3. What do YOU do with your old scrubs?

   bradleau replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   if in good condition I give them to my neighbor to use for quilt fabric. Mine wear out around the neck area binding. Rest in good shape. Or I send them off to good will. That is where my daughter buys hers for her "sitter/helper " jobs.

4. What do YOU do with your old scrubs?

   bradleau replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   I give them to my neighbor who cuts out what she wants and makes quilts. She does a very good job with them. Otherwise I wear them around the house, etc. Very comfortable.

5. Health Care and Contraception: Did the Supreme Court Get It Right?

   bradleau replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I am concerned that such companys will more than take advantage of it. Do they provide Viagra and the like? Perhaps that should be considered forcing you to have sexual reproduction. I highly doubt you are given a year of wages just to have a chi...

6. What would help you love your job?

   bradleau replied to rlerich's topic in General Nursing

   I spent nearly 20 yrs at one hospital on the med-surg floor. My biggest complaint is that the hospital started punishing nurses for issues that patients got upset with. One had her hair with a different tint in it. Not ugly or anything. But this...

7. What do you think of fibromyalgia?

   bradleau replied to Emergent's topic in Stress 101

   I have suffered from this for many years, well prior to a name being applied to it. Perhaps injury triggered this response. It is more than muscle. It is where the muscles and tendons attach. I also find pain with bedding and clothing touching it...

8. Stupid hospital/company tricks

   bradleau replied to AOx1's topic in General Nursing

   policy started to drug screen everyone who had an on the job injury. That was OK. But to test someone who was injured months before the policy started, right after they were released to come back to work, really showed the foolishness of the bosses...

9. Poop Free Nursing Jobs in the Hospital?

   bradleau replied to IcySageNurse's topic in General Nursing

   My issue is with rotting flesh, and sometimes blood. I used vicks under my nose. It is hard to get a stink past that Vicks. One nurse double masked, with several dabs of Vicks on the inner mask. Since lighting a match to counter the smell, like s...

10. Nurses and exposure risk

    bradleau replied to dizzyray822's topic in General Nursing

    My one and only dirty needle stick was from an IM injection that I had given to a patient with stomach cancer. 15 years later, I am diagnosed with stomach cancer. Makes me wonder what else can be transmitted.

11. Infected Needlestick

    bradleau replied to blessedRN29's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder about other issues of needle sticks. One nurse got stuck in the thumb after giving an IM shot to a patient that had stomach cancer. ( His brother had recently died from stomach cancer as well) The needle went deep into her thumb , when sh...

12. Am I doing the right thing? New nurse getting butt kicked

    bradleau replied to j_tay1981's topic in New Nurse

    I was dropped into ER after I had oriented to med/surg in a small hospital. Our ER had a house RN, and two LPN's plus a doctor. Talk about GI issues....I truly did not know what the heck was going on. My coworker had been there two weeks. My firs...

13. Perfect shoes for the "flat footed" male nurse

    bradleau replied to rnveal's topic in Men

    Go to a shoe store that will fit you with arch supports, and fit you with a properly fitting shoe. It works wonders for those nurses who are flat footed, as well as those who aren't. It is worth the extra cost. Usually you will get 3 or 4 pairs of...

14. That Dreaded 3-11 Shift

    bradleau replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    I never liked 3-11 as I found it hard to wind down after work. Most of my nursing consisted on 11p to 7 a. I would go home and sleep, getting up around 4 pm. I have heard of a 3pm to 3 am / 3am to 3 pm shift at a hospital in Idaho. That floored ...

15. Discrimination & Whistle blowing - Would you hire this nurse again?

    bradleau replied to SunshineSmile's topic in Relations

    When I was first into nursing, I found bias in that I was married, therefore had a husband to bring home the bacon. Also there was the issue that he was in the military, and my time on the job was limited. Why should the fact that I had a husband k...