Maggie Mae

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1. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

   Maggie Mae replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

   Middle aged, no significant other, good hands on skills. You say that like there is something wrong with it. Do you view your patients through that same critical lens, or can you turn it off and on? Why not be an example? Practice with pride and h...

2. Please paint a realistic picture of nursing for me!

   Maggie Mae replied to wannabe_sane's topic in New York

   Nursing is hard, stressful, scary, frustrating, wonderful, funny, smelly, sad, unfair, mismanaged, understaffed, no supplies, too many patients, too many gripes, awesome, I love it! Have good boundaries. A good friend you trust. Be a good friend. ...

3. Saudi Arabia

   Maggie Mae replied to 3651bht's topic in General World

   I am also interested in some up dated information about working in KSA. I am a female with a BSN and ER experience. I would like to know about salary, language spoken in the hospital, is it easy to find language tutors? How about getting around? ...

4. subQ narcotics?

   Maggie Mae replied to khine2mn80's topic in Medications

   can you give me a better picture of the butterfly tech? Where is the best spot to put it? Is this standard practice at your hospital fora pt who needs prn sq meds ? I think it is a great idea, but have never seen it in practice.

5. Lapel watches???

   Maggie Mae replied to salliwag's topic in General Nursing

   I would love to get one. Know any good web sites?

6. Weird, Odd Nurses Behavior.....

   Maggie Mae replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   Ialways carry alcohol with me everywhere...Isn't it embarrassing when you drop the bottel and it makes that loud clinking noise. You'd think that scrunched up brown paper bag would be good for something. :rotfl:

7. Telemetry Techs vs. Nurses

   Maggie Mae replied to Jubei's topic in Cardiac

   Why do you hate me? come on where is the love!?

8. Staffing a telemetry unit

   Maggie Mae replied to ShayRN's topic in Cardiac

   The nurses aids can only do accu-checks if they are nursing students. The other night 6 out of 10 pts, were accu-checks. They empty foleys and do patient care and work very hard. we have 38 beds and 2 nurses aids. Too much work for everyone. Som...

9. Staffing a telemetry unit

   Maggie Mae replied to ShayRN's topic in Cardiac

   LI, NY. Days routeinly have 9 patients, nights 9-11, in the winter as many as 12. Way too many for this nurse, 8 mos. of experience.

10. Lenght of a stethoscope

    Maggie Mae replied to mye614's topic in Cardiac

    The longer tubing is easier on the back, and less akward doing BP's, bowel sounds, etc. It is true, no matter the scope, it takes practice to hear what you need to hear.

11. How many Pt do you take care of?

    Maggie Mae replied to Franlpntorn's topic in General Nursing

    Long Island, NY. Tele floor, 7P-7:30A, 9-12 PT. If less than 9 we usually have new admits. 3-4 districts with 1-2 cna's. Thinking of moving to another state. Oh yea, charge nurse too. Most of the time the nurse is the one who makes calls for an...

12. eating our young and old

    Maggie Mae replied to john william's topic in Educators

    what do you say we, one person at a time consciously decide, " I will not be a canibal, I want to be better than that." And we live by example, and we speak up when we see canibalism happening, in a respectful way ofcourse. and if we feel like we a...

13. Precepting new nurses...

    Maggie Mae replied to mommatrauma's topic in Emergency

    You may have already posted the answer. Sorry I started to skim. I am a new nurse, 9 months. I work on a busy tele floor 7p-7a, 9-11 patients a night. Every week that I work there is something that I need to ask a question about. Depending on th...

14. Rampant Cheating

    Maggie Mae replied to nycNurse2b's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I saw alot of cheating at my school, and yes I did report it. The instructor couldn't beleive that anyone would cheat. To make a long story short, the cheaters had trouble passing the NCLEX, and some had difficulties on their jobs coping with the p...

15. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Maggie Mae replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    I applied for a job in september. When I took the drug screen test they told me not to eat anything with poppy seeds prior to the test. When I took the test I asked the nurse supervising the test if the meds that I was taking would show up on the t...