kailucan

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1. neglect of 7 yr old

   kailucan replied to eph432girl's topic in Pediatric

   I live in a small town in central KY.... that being said...a 7 year girl was playing in her own yard one afternoon after school. She was kidnapped raped and then murdered. Her body was found in an abandoned van about 50 miles away months later. A sma...

2. pedatric nurse associations????

   kailucan posted a topic in Pediatric

   :uhoh21: The pediatric nurses I've been working with for the past year and a half have FINALLY decided to unite and make a stand for the poor staffing our hospital allows. We are a seventeen bed unit that is highly promoted in our area and generally...

3. Nursing Assistant patient ratio's

   kailucan replied to kotys's topic in Pediatric

   :uhoh21: The pediatric nurses I've been working with for the past year and a half have FINALLY decided to unite and make a stand for the poor staffing our hospital allows. We are a seventeen bed unit that is highly promoted in our area and generally...

4. Why do I feel so guilt-ridden?

   kailucan replied to huggietoes's topic in General Nursing

   this past august i came down with official bona fide "fifth disease" (human parvovirus), i should have built up antibodies as a child but didn't, and missed 5 total 12 hour shifts occuring over 2 weeks time. i was so weak that for the first week i co...

5. LPN/RN the big picture???

   kailucan replied to Maggie in NC's topic in LPN/LVN

   I need help finding info on Nurses Unions that also accept LPNs as members. I am going back to school next fall for my ADN when my youngest starts school. Until then I need to find protection for my fellow LPNs and myself. I have found numerous organ...

6. Would you assist in abortions?

   kailucan replied to Blackcat99's topic in Ob/Gyn

   OK, usually I just sit back , read and keep my mouth shut. BUT.......my sister had an abortion when she was 19 due to parental demand, or so she says, both parents deny this claim to this day, and "it" took place 15 years ago. Three years later she b...

7. nursing superstitutions.....any truth in???

   kailucan replied to micro's topic in General Nursing

   I found out the hard way about "jinxing" my floor at the hospital where I work. I'm new and our hospital is very small and I VERY innocently asked if we ever get many trachs or g-tubes, well the next night I worked we had 2 in the same room with bot...

8. What's with the chip on your shoulder?

   kailucan replied to proud2bme's topic in General Nursing

   O.K. Correct me if I'm wrong BUT a Hospital is a business so in effect the patients are it's customers. Before I became a nurse I encountered horriblely rude and incompetant nurses and reported these nurses to the business office in that facility. I...