docomo

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1. Playing with fire...

   docomo posted a topic in Relations

   Lets say you meet another nurse or a tech at your work that you really like and would like to date. But you can't just ask, because the other person is already in a relationship with someone else. What's would be a good way indirectly find out if sh...

2. The Black List

   docomo replied to Rascal1's topic in Recovery

   consider this your lesson learned. Don't work anywhere that you aren't in agreement with the quality of care being given. Move on, forget about that place and stop being paranoid.

3. Reported to TPAPN

   docomo replied to Riley70's topic in Recovery

   Hey OP, no one can help you until you are ready and willing to admit that alcohol has taken over your life and your ability to make good decisions. As I read your post, it was clear that the person writing is very sad, very angry, and in total denia...

4. help with rhythms

   docomo posted a topic in Cardiac

   I've been through classes on this, reviewed books, and still suck at recognizing cardiac rhythms on the fly. Any advice on how to make it easy to recognize specific cardiac rhythms quickly and easily?

5. Registered Nurses: Do you like your jobs?

   docomo replied to mamba24's topic in General Nursing

   NO! underpaid, overworked, expected to carry elephants on your back and stand on your feet for 12 hours, no job security.

6. Ethical advice needed for a new grad...

   docomo replied to AnnaleaRN's topic in New Nurse

   if you are a new grad, take in everything you can, but don't presume to know enough to hand out criticism. You'll observe good nurses and bad nurses, this is the time when you'll decide what kind of nurse you are going to be. There is cutting corne...

7. National Nursing License

   docomo posted a topic in General Nursing

   Why can't we have one national nursing license and still give states the authority to have their own nurse practice act? Isn't that what the compact state license is doing? We already have the NCLEX, so who is keeping this from happening?

8. Hypothermia for Heart Attack Victims

   docomo posted a topic in Emergency

   Since ACLS guidelines now recommends hypothermia for stemi patients that are unconscious with return of spontaneous circulation, then shouldn't all emergency rooms have the capability to initiate therapeutic hypothermia ? Like many rural EDs, my ED ...

9. orientaton for experienced nurses

   docomo replied to Kidrn911's topic in Emergency

   is there a such thing as a "not busy ER"? take the two weeks, if you don't feel ready, don't be afraid to ask for two more weeks...

10. Emergency departments willing to give a dedicated new graduate a chance..... realistic

    docomo replied to iliketosneeze's topic in Emergency

    being a new grad in the ED is rough. That being said, I did it, and many others have done it. There are lots of hospitals that hire new grads, and contrary to what some people with over sized ego's will tell you, those EDs are just as good as those...

11. Supplies a new grad ER Nurse should carry

    docomo replied to Belle2013's topic in Emergency

    other than the obvious, pens, stethoscope, scissors. 1. candy or granola bars. 2. "pocket pharmacopoeia for nurses". because 90% of what you do is giving drugs, and when it comes to questions like "over how many minutes should this drug be adminis...

12. Crazy preceptor?

    docomo replied to jrsRN07's topic in Emergency

    nothing sucks more than a bad preceptor or being assigned a lousy nurse for new hire orientation...

13. New ER nurse...is there any hope for me?!?!

    docomo replied to MereSanity's topic in Emergency

    Here's a my time tested IV insertion technique that rarely lets me down. Make the TQ on the arm very snug and keep arm lower than heart for the veins to puff up. (forget all that slapping and thumping, irritated veins are more likely to blow) When...

14. Nurses Talk To Nurses. Doctors Talk To Doctors

    docomo replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a male nurse, and believe it or not, us men encounter the same problems. Last year I took a job an ER. After only a few months on the job things were beginning to look grim. On several occasions, I'd observed the ER director, a woman, being ver...

15. What's wrong with me?

    docomo replied to mappers's topic in Informatics

    Your post is rather incomplete in that very little of the information from your resume is provided. First let me say that I'm also considering a career in nursing informatics, though I'm a RN with no working experience as a nurse. I also have...