SunRose7

SunRose7 specializes in Med/Surg/Ortho/Uro/Rehab CNA.

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1. Patients refusing assessments

   SunRose7 replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

   = Reason for blistered labia?

2. New LPN students to start soon !! Come share your experiences :)

   SunRose7 replied to Ericad85's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   That is so crazy I cant believe I wrote that a few months ago and now I start school the day after tomorrow! AHHHH! So far I have 17 books and 21 credit hours.. hows everyone else fairing?

3. My Child Has Wings: My Path to Nursing School

   SunRose7 replied to lexie'smama's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, I had to stop reading several times from the amount of tears welling up in my eyes. I couldn't even see enough to read. I had a miscarriage in 2005, which was devastating, but does not compare to what I believe I would feel if I lost my son now ...

4. "From the mouth of babes..."

   SunRose7 replied to SunRose7's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I would have to agree that the filter does not come standard on the wee ones. Actually it's not even optional. (Personal Embarassment story: My son saw a rather gruff looking woman at the store and proudly announced "Mommy! Das a MAN!"............

5. "From the mouth of babes..."

   SunRose7 posted a topic in General Nursing

   "from the mouth of babes..." my mom always says when my two and a half year old son says those endearing, lovable, and sometimes embarassing phrases that 2 year olds are just wonderful at conjuring up. well today my son walks up to me and says "momm...

6. Emergency Med Dispatch???

   SunRose7 replied to SunRose7's topic in General Nursing

   haha, that is very true about murphy's law. for that reason i have never depended in getting a job where i could study... no matter what they say the work load is like. and i do in fact live in a tiny town where the fire dept, police dept, justice ce...

7. Emergency Med Dispatch???

   SunRose7 replied to SunRose7's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, ya never know what people do before/ during nursing school though. I've met a lot of nurses (mostly male) who could give me landscaping/ business/ etc. advice. Really random sorts of jobs and nursing was their 2nd profession. So I figured there...

8. Emergency Med Dispatch???

   SunRose7 replied to SunRose7's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry, I'm bumping the thread up again because I need a job and advice please! :)

9. Emergency Med Dispatch???

   SunRose7 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone, Not too sure what to think of this... I saw an opening for an Emergency Medical Dispatcher at the police station thats half a block away, (I could walk across the street to go to work= no long commute), it's good pay + benefits (which ...

10. No More Fingersticks for Techs!!

    SunRose7 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    yep, i worked in a hospital in colorado and as of a year ago we let cnas/pcts do fingersticks. i had to take training to be able to do it and always wrote down the numbers for the blood sugar just incase something screwy happend to the docking elect...

11. The strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

    SunRose7 replied to Spirit of Humor's topic in Humor

    wow, so i know you said this is from a tv show but my nurse friend who worked night ed told me that he did in fact have a pt with an intact light bulb up his rectum. how? i cannot possibly imagine. :imbar

12. No such thing as a stupid nurse

    SunRose7 replied to Mommy_of_3_in_AL..RN's topic in General Nursing

    i felt inspired by the post but then it was shortly dashed away only by another thread i read just earlier today... the one about the nurse who has 3 duis in mi. like the other posters said she only got caught 3 times.. and if she had the bad judgeme...

13. For Patrick

    SunRose7 replied to jvqantipolo's topic in General Nursing

    it breaks my heart and yet inspires me how such a young child can be so much more brave than most adults. thank you for your story.

14. Would you look at your friend's bottom if they asked you to?

    SunRose7 replied to Sash123's topic in General Nursing

    i would look, however i did have a close family member half jokingly ask me to help with getting her nuvaring in... all i could say was ":eek::stone...uhh, maybe you should've stuck with the pill?"

15. Nurses that are late for report

    SunRose7 replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    at the hospital i worked night shift at, when i first started you could clock in 7 min late (6:30pm-7am shift, so at 6:37 if you slid your badge you were late). people would show up at 6:36 consistantly, so they moved the time up to clocking in at ex...