limestone

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1. Should smokers be admitted into the nursing program?

   limestone replied to Elly Aker's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I find the idea of employers' discrimination for engaging in a legal behaviour to be quite bizarre. What next? I suspect that BMIs or cholesterol levels will be the next exclusionary tactic in the power trip that HRs everywhere are on. With only the...

2. Need advice on how to respond to a manager after interview

   limestone replied to Nadz02RN's topic in New York

   The circumstances of your interview were appalling--most unprofessional in every way. However, they don't owe you any kind of communication afterwards. Common courtesy that existed in the past has fallen victim to the impersonality of the new hiring ...

3. Pressing charges on a psych patient?

   limestone replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing

   On our unit it is a team decision. Team takes into account the pt's mental status, behaviour patterns, and the usefulness of pressing a charge in the context of the patient's management and treatment. On our acute care psychiatric unit, staff know ...

4. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

   limestone replied to sethmctenn's topic in Humor

   We have a doctor in Ontario who does penile lengthening treaments and his name is Dr. Stubbs. We had a dietitian at our hospital whose name was Mrs. Death (pronounced deeth, but the spelling....) Also on staff: Dr. Payne and a female Dr. Kevorkian.

5. Moral/Ethical Advice

   limestone replied to chinacatSN's topic in General Students

   Hearsay is not proof. Therefore you have no case. Period. Going to your instructors with this allegation will cause grief for you without resulting in a conviction of your classmate.

6. How to deal with constant calls to come into work?!

   limestone replied to magn1jes's topic in General Nursing

   I totally sympathise with people who have this situation ongoing, caller ID or no. I worked on a busy unit where we were responsible for our own staffing. We were very supportive to one another which was the only thing that kept us going. All for one...

7. What do you call your "greatest" compliment?

   limestone replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   At the end of one evening shift when I had been run off my feet with too many patients on a busy surgical unit and was exhausted, one of my patients asked me, "Am I your only patient tonight? You've been taking great care of me." That was my best com...

8. To own a pet or not while in nursing school...

   limestone replied to kroyce's topic in General Students

   PLease don't get a dog. They are more work than you think and need lots of companionship, not just the few rushed bits of time here and there that you have left over from the demands of school. I have watched colleages stress out about getting home t...

9. Clients? Are they no longer patients?

   limestone replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

   I"ve been a nurse all my life but 2 weeks ago was suddenly hospitalized with PE's following orthopedic surgery. I did not CHOOSE or SEEK hospital/nursing care--it just happened. Sorry, but I was glad to be a patient and be looked after. On the othe...

10. Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    limestone replied to vhern246's topic in Humor

    In answer to the last query about strangest place you have fallen asleep, mine is the ferry dock. After my 12-hr night shifts, I have a half-hour drive to the ferry that takes me to the island where I live; there are times a crew menber has had to co...

11. Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    limestone replied to vhern246's topic in Humor

    Recently I was standing at the pharmacy counter waiting for my husband's prescription. The lady next to me was reading the label on her prescription med. She said to the young clerk who was ringing up the sale on the cash register, "It says here Paro...

12. You know you're Old School when...

    limestone replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    This is a great thread! Brings back memories.... In our provincial psychiatric hospital, we used cigarettes for rewards in the token economy programs, even on Admitting units. In our canteen we sold papers and tobacco for those patients who could ro...

13. Question about Concealed Weapons Carry

    limestone replied to sambo23's topic in Florida

    I am Canadian and am shocked to read of nurses discussing carrying guns. Nurses affirm life, and guns are for killing. I know the US is a gun-carrying nation but I never thought nurses would be involved with them.

14. Not a doctor but is asking to be called "Dr" while on the unit.

    limestone replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    If she were on a med/surg unit, she should be called dr. as it wouldn't affect her care and healing one way or the other. Probably would help with same, as she seems to need the reassurance, respect or whatever it is that she's seeking. On a psych un...

15. Job you would NEVER do in nursing....

    limestone replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    Hello Michaboo, Please read my letter wherever it come in the line-up (maybe Page 11). I love psychiatry, as human beings in their infinite varieties are endlessly fascinating. In psych the nurse is an instrument of healing, a wonderful thing to be....