ScrubMan0416

ScrubMan0416 specializes in Inpatient Rehabilitation.

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1. Feeling Wronged

   ScrubMan0416 replied to ScrubMan0416's topic in General Nursing

   They get to do them while in the program. Lets see how many of them can pull it off....

2. Feeling Wronged

   ScrubMan0416 posted a topic in General Nursing

   i have been attending a small community college for the past 4 years going for their adn program. i have been applying for this program for the past 2 years, and i am still waiting to get on the waiting list, which holds a 3 semester wait once i get ...

3. Can someone tell me how PTO works?

   ScrubMan0416 replied to Nightingale11's topic in General Nursing

   Like the others have stated it depends on your company's policy. The way we accrue PTO is based on a few factors; whether you are full time/part time/PRN, and how long you have been with the company (we have three tiers; 1-5 years, 5-10 years, and 1...

4. Underarm Sweating

   ScrubMan0416 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Sorry in advance if this is not the place to be talking about something like this, but here it goes. Ever since I hit puberty I have had a problem with excessive sweating of my right armpit. Nothing I have tried has worked. I have spent hundreds of...

5. Underarm Sweating

   ScrubMan0416 posted a topic in Men

   Sorry in advance if this is not the place to be talking about something like this, but here it goes. Ever since I hit puberty I have had a problem with excessive sweating of my right armpit. Nothing I have tried has worked. I have spent hundreds of d...

6. How do you center yourself before a shift?

   ScrubMan0416 replied to smilesandstickers's topic in General Nursing

   I get to work 20-30 minutes early, sit in the breakroom, or the nurses station, and observe the shift I will be taking over for about 15 minutes. I gather the appropriate information from the way they walk, jog, or run, down the hall. I then print ...

7. tips on how to survive 12 hr shifts.

   ScrubMan0416 replied to arabella205's topic in General Nursing

   personally i don't mind working 12 hour shifts! it gives me the opportunity to work full time (36 hours a week) and go to school full time (13 credits per semester). the only problem i have encountered is how to transition from friday/saturday night...

8. "Attitudes" in nursing career

   ScrubMan0416 replied to timidgirl's topic in Relations

   My personal philosophy "Kill them with kindness!!" Make them laugh at a funny situation, or just laugh a lot around them. I works most of the time for me.

9. Housekeeping responsibility or nurses?

   ScrubMan0416 replied to L3Janit0r37's topic in General Nursing

   In the hospital I work in we have the isolation precautions (etc.) posted on the frames of the patients room with magnets and it is the responsibility of our cleaning personel to take then down after the room has been cleaned. That way everyone is a...

10. male nurses refusing to do certain treatments?

    ScrubMan0416 replied to picurn10's topic in General Nursing

    A nurse is a nurse, plain and simple. If you are scared for your license, have a female nurse or CNA there as a witness. We as nurses are here for the patients and if you are too "grossed out" to do certian things for patients, male or female, you ...

11. Family initiated MET/rapid response?

    ScrubMan0416 replied to mama_d's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital started a new program on Jan 1, 2008 called Code H (HELP). It can be used by patients, their family, or staff members pertaining to the care, or lack there of, of the patient by picking up the phone and dialing H-E-L-P. They are connec...

12. How Many Times During the Night Do You Wake Your Patients?

    ScrubMan0416 replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a small 12 bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit and on admission the MD will write "Do not desturb patient between the hours of 2200-0630." Of course we have 'wiggle room' in that if the pt is a diabetic and is sweating, we can do a blood sug...

13. Perineal anxiety

    ScrubMan0416 replied to caliber's topic in Men

    Just curious, were you a CNA before you became a nurse?

14. Shoes

    ScrubMan0416 replied to Lilloman's topic in Men

    Dansko Professionals all the way. Can't go wrong!

15. Smoking on Campus

    ScrubMan0416 posted a topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work at went "Tobacco Free" on January 1, 2008. This new policy was met with a lot anger and resentment toward the system administrators by 99.99% of the smokers. I work on a small rehab unit which employs about 20 people. Out of the...