cloister

cloister has 25 years experience and specializes in Critical care, neuroscience, telemetry,.

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1. Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

   cloister replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   Obama

2. Do You Wear Your Colors To Work?

   cloister replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   We can wear whatever, and a lot of our folks wear Charger stuff during football season. My blood runs deep orange, however, and no one in Southern California would get it, so I don't bother. GO VOLS!!!!!!!!

3. What is administration thinking?

   cloister replied to UnionRN2's topic in General Nursing

   RhiaRN75, That was a GREAT story.......I was howling. Thanks for sharing it in such great detail. And, oh, yes, I agree with you.....when certain surgeons lock horns with administration, things change. FAST.

4. Pinning Ceremony Question

   cloister replied to beebonnet's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News, or "I Want to be Sedated" by the Ramones........ Seriously, congratulations on your upcoming pinning and duet. I don't know if your ceremony will have any religious overtones or not (my nursin...

5. i feel so guilty..should i have done more?

   cloister replied to erin01's topic in General Nursing

   Stop flogging yourself. I don't think you did anything wrong here. With respect to the previous posters, I have to disagree with them. Your patient was a COPD'er admitted with a sat of 84% on 5 liters per NC. Generally speaking, we try to keep the...

6. Don't know what to do. I just CAN'T. TAKE. THIS. ANYMORE...........

   cloister replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

7. Please response its for my project!! :d

   cloister replied to tryingpatsy's topic in General Nursing

   You may use my screen name, sure.

8. Is immediate, undisrupted breastfeeding needed for long term success?

   cloister replied to SiennaGreen's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm not an L&D nurse, butI successfully breastfed three strapping sons, so I'll weigh in with my two cents. Baby #1 wasn't interested in eating (or breathing....or doing much of anything, frankly), and since I brought him home at the 24 hour mark...

9. HELP!!! Need advice to critical think at work!!

   cloister replied to esthomprn's topic in General Nursing

   Hey, it takes time. We've got a real big crop of brand new ICU nurses working with us now as we prepare to move to a bigger unit. The majority of them are struggling with the same issue you're struggling with. I can see the frustration behind their...

10. Should an RN accept CNA/PCT job for now

    cloister replied to meikauw's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that working as a CNA, even after passing your NCLEX, would be a great way to keep your foot in the future-empoyment-as-an-RN-door, so to speak. We have a young man working with us now as a nursing student. He failed last semester's te...

11. A changing paradigm in nursing/healthcare?

    cloister replied to bruinrn's topic in General Nursing

    An emerging trend we're discussing in our ICU right now is family centered care. Other topics with lots in the litereature include nurse mentoring, family presence during resuscitation and open visitation. You might also look at the new nursing dra...

12. Being a preceptor blows

    cloister replied to RoyalNurse's topic in General Nursing

    amen, and amen. precepting, good or bad, will only take you so far. i've done a lot of precepting in our icu, and i've been told that i do a good job. i like having new staff come aboard, and i remember my own days as a new grad. kindness is alway...

13. whats the worst or funniest item family has snuck in to your pt?

    cloister replied to blondnursey's topic in General Nursing

    Had three guys in trench coats sneak three very large pythons into the cardiac ward at the regional Naval Hospita to visit their herpetologically inclined sailor buddy. Needless to say, we asked them to leave.

14. Preceptor becomes villain

    cloister replied to chilly2008's topic in California

    I agree with this poster. The insecurity among some nurses is HUGE, and sometimes intimidation of the newbie is their only defense. I also agree that what goes 'round, comes round. My philosophy on new staff? Be nice to them. I never know who m...

15. If you applied for a job that isn't your "dream" job...

    cloister replied to DeLana_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted oncology too, fresh out of school. I drove up to Nashville to interview on winter break my senior year, hoping that's where they'd place me. It wasn't. "We'd like to hire you for 11 South, the neurology and neurosurgery floor", said the nic...