Cinquefoil's Likes Activity

Welcome to my Nursing Profile Page! You can learn all about me here. Together, we can learn, share, and network with nurses and nursing students from all around the world. If you are not yet a member Register Now to gain more access.

Post
Likes
  1. Know that patients will try to be brave, and that the pain WILL quickly go out of control if you don't get on it when it's...
    4
    Forum: Orthopaedic Nursing
  2. I seriously don't think I could handle being a nurse in many other places. There is a reason, I guess, why it's so hard...
    4
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  3. You just need to explain to her that "covering" her patients while she is on her break just means that you will take care of...
    3
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  4. This notion of having everything "caught up" is interesting to me. If I waited until everything was done, I'd almost never...
    16
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  5. Why don't you just take her aside and calmly explain how things are supposed to work with this. I bet she's overwhelmed, and...
    6
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  6. No one was blaming the new grads themselves, more the system itself. There seems to be a partnership between nursing schools...
    6
    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  7. Ok.....I know I'm late to the game....I am still feeling like I've been run over by a MACK truck....:barf02:. Here it...
    15
    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  8. 5 stepdown patients? Nights? What is the CNA to patient ratio? 5 seems like a lot when I see most places around here 1:4...
    1
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  9. Don't forget for neuro (lamis, discectomies, etc), good god get rid of that trapeze bar!! It's funny...I am going to be...
    1
    Forum: Orthopaedic Nursing
  10. The dates were Jan. 7th-22nd.
    1
    Forum: Oregon Nursing
  11. Laurie, Keep your chin up and just roll with the punches. Those nurses are acting really stupid. Ignore them put them on...
    4
    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  12. You can also get in in the rural areas of the Midwest. Basically talk to your friends and family. Ask them where the last...
    2
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  13. Every once in a while, what goes around, comes around. I had a preceptor (although I had been a nurse for about a year) who...
    11
    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  14. Maybe we're just really tasty?
    3
    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  15. Hopefully things are much better now....my preceptor did her best to push me as far as she could just so she could tell me...
    2
    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  16. I was raised in an environment where a poker face was very necessary for day-to-day interactions. When my brain is busy, my...
    3
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  17. I agree with others. It comes with time. I can look pretty stone faced on the outside and be ****** as heck on the inside,...
    4
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  18. Relaxing your face is a good thing but better yet is to feel relaxed internally. Ounce you achieve that your face will...
    1
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  19. For many I think its got to be a matter of confidence and just "letting your training take over". I am a new nurse so I dont...
    2
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  20. One needn't be empathetic in order to provide excellent nursing care. OP: Practice in front of a mirror or a video...
    2
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  21. I thought you were referring to the haggard, dark circles under my eyes look. The calm look is simply the look of...
    9
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  22. Botox.
    7
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  23. Practice. Lots of practice. Basically doing the same thing you are, which is self observation and noticing when my facial...
    5
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  24. Early in my nursing career, I had a really good "nurse face"...after being in health care for 12 years, I stopped being...
    8
    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  25. I was attempting to give someone their insulin. When I walked in the room, the woman rips off her covers, pokes her rear in...
    1
    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  26. *** i too am a full time rrt rn. the staff rns love rrt. when a nurse's concernes are being blown off by the physicians they...
    1
    Forum: CCU Nursing / Coronary / Cardiac
  27. "Best" is a matter of preference and on the goal of the mechanical ventilation. AC delivers a preset Vt and the pt can...
    1
    Forum: MICU / SICU Nursing
  28. You really should insist on a trach CPR class, and don't do a trach change alone until you've done several with help. Get in...
    2
    Forum: PICU Nursing / Pediatric
  29. Adult Ventilation Management Online Nursing Continuing Education Course This is a very nice pdf on adult ventilation...
    2
    Forum: MICU / SICU Nursing
  30. As I just wrote in another thread ... here is a word of caution about online portfolios. They can hurt you if they are...
    1
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  31. I'm am a full time RRT RN and yes, my presence does spark some new interest. If I'm here to see the pt something must be...
    2
    Forum: CCU Nursing / Coronary / Cardiac
  32. EMERMED : Emergency Medicine Journal Early warning scores: effective use
    1
    Forum: Nursing in the United Kingdom
  33. First day at clinicals I had a partner. She was very shy and had a sweet voice, not wanting to raise her voice for an older...
    6
    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  34. 88 year old lady on the unit is in retention. After numerous attempts the nursing staff can't get an IDC in. So we call the...
    7
    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  35. So, it looks like the reasoning for those who do not use sterile technique to change dressings in the hospital is: Too...
    4
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion