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1. "Nancy" and Babs

   nurse nettie replied to Babs0512's topic in General Nursing

   What a fascinating story. Such a sad ending. Thank you!

2. I Can See it When You Smile

   nurse nettie replied to 2shihtzus's topic in General Nursing

   Outstanding. Your article captures the essence of nursing on MedSurg. Far greater are the risks and challenges on the MedSurg unit vs. Critical Care!! Yet our greatest recognition is our patients. I look for those rewards to get me through the day. T...

3. Come On! Breathe!

   nurse nettie replied to 2shihtzus's topic in General Nursing

   Yes! That is the challenge of med surg! To be able to respond to an emergancy while still keeping a head about your other patients! We don't have a critical care resident sitting at the desk and we don't have the luxuary of one patient. Kudos to you ...

4. Define Nursing in 3 words

   nurse nettie replied to FutureNurseSaga's topic in General Nursing

   Smart, sassy and charmed!

5. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   nurse nettie replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   Nursing is getting competative....We all know there is a cap on nursing salaries, and we've all felt a little angry when a new graduate makes not much less than we do. Maybe senior nurses are resentfull and feel the new graduate should earn their wag...

6. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   nurse nettie replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   Nursing is highly regulated. The profession is such to prevent harm to our patients. I think nurses have alot of watchdog behaviour in them. That is we are contantly checking and double checking ourselves and our peers to ultimately prevent errors......

7. Dipoma Nurse and Proud!

   nurse nettie replied to nurse4117's topic in ADN/BSN

   I am a diploma nurse. Without a degree, I held positions in management, education and public health. Perhaps I did so because advocates of degrees said I couldn't. However, I love bedside nursing. So at fifty, I am practicing on an adult medical unit...

8. Beyond the "5 Rights" of medication administration...

   nurse nettie replied to Clarise's topic in General Nursing

   When I began nursing in the 80's, it was sacraligous to interrupt a nurse during her med pass. I like the nurse who recommended to treat each patient's med pass as an event in itself. Times have changed, since we can't go back to the days when the ho...