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  1. What baby catches you every time?

    Fascinating to see the range of responses here! I'm glad we don't all have the same "favourites". I'm a sucker for an orphan (i.e, the babies that have little or no parental presence due to Children's Aid seizure, mom in ICU, or parents too far away...
  2. There has to be a BETTER WAY to obtain a blood sample.

    What experiences have you folks had in doing heelsticks while baby is on the breast? This was recommended to me during orientation (both as a way for baby to self-comfort and to increase nipple stimulation), and I've suggested it to mothers dozens o...
  3. 5 Spiritual Concepts Western Medicine Must Embrace

    Well, I'm a nurse, and I disagree. There are no reasonable grounds for thinking that "spirit" even exists. So, it's not reasonable for us to attempt to treat it. You (probably) don't feel any need to take your patient's astrological sign into cons...
  4. 5 Spiritual Concepts Western Medicine Must Embrace

    Here's a link to a Cochrane review of studies into whether prayer affects health outcomes. It's not a subscription site, so you should be able to read it without being on your hospital or school network. But if anybody has any trouble linking to it...
  5. Can you solve this drug calculation?

    Hmm... I wonder if the answer they were looking for was "it comes to 2,500,000 mL/hr, which is obviously wrong, so my next step is to tell the MD to fix the order." I know they said that all questions would be realistic, but finding errors in med ord...
  6. Wasn't the School Nurse right?

    Poor girl. Another theory to consider: maybe she has bulimia and was abusing laxatives. She might have taken a very large dose if it were her first time trying laxatives, or if she had a particularly large binge to "make up for".
  7. im selfish? hmmm

    Not raunchy, but here's my smartarse answer: Q: "Why don't you have children?" A: "Just lucky, I guess." Also effective on related questions like "Why aren't you married?", "Why don't you have a boyfriend?", "Why are you gay?", "Why don't you go to c...
  8. Offensive Portrayal of Nurses in Ocean City, New Jersey?

    I'm surprised this hasn't come up in the thread yet: the doctor is named and the nurses aren't. This is not uncommon in the media, and indicates less respect for nurses than for doctors. But I don't see anything offensive about the crab silliness.
  9. Nursing Priority vs First nursing action

    Ah, but now you've raised another semantic issue - how do we define a task or action? Is putting on sterile gloves an action, or just part of a bigger action? Or (as I'd argue) are they both legitimately called actions, albeit at different taxonomi...
  10. Nursing Priority vs First nursing action

    Many, many English words have more than one possible interpretation. For example, when I got up this morning, my priority for the day was to study chapters 24 and 25 for my class. However, what I did first was to take a shower. You don't think tho...
  11. I agree with CaregiverGrace; it doesn't matter if some people would be fine with it; what matters is that some people wouldn't, and you don't know which group the person reading your resume will be in. Women involved in sex work are harshly stigmatiz...
  12. Panicked!!! HIV/AIDS, HepB, HepC risk?

    Your health priority right now should be to seek a psychiatric evaluation. From what you've told us, the risks that you're suffering from paranoia or anxiety or some other form of mental illness are much higher than the risk that you're suffering fro...
  13. Am I over-thinking, or are these just bad test questions?

    Both quoted for truth. I'm sort of a perennial student - I did two bachelor's degrees before my BScN, and I'm now back in school doing more undergraduate studies (with a view to going on to grad school in a different field). Between four faculties i...
  14. Hello everyone. For those of you who work in hospitals - what is the process for deciding on an autopsy? Is it something that family members can request, or entirely at the doctor's discretion? In my unit (NICU), most deaths are expected... i.e., th...
  15. Am I over-thinking, or are these just bad test questions?

    Yes, but the question was about teaching the patient how to get better sleep, and since age isn't a modifiable factor, it's not relevant. Nursing "teachers" go on and on about reading the question carefully to see what is really being asked, but if ...