LaurenBoog

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  1. A question for the nursing moms.

    If I had a choice? Absolutely part-time. I just had a little one and I am dreading working full time, even though it's only 3 days a week! You could always work "officially" part time and then pick up a day or two on the schedule to cover any extra e...
  2. What the what??

    Sella turkey-ka sounds like a delicious italian dish.
  3. Of course she wasn't going to die...the hospice nurse closed the window!! Sheesh! That's how I keep all my patients alive!
  4. I like being different.

    I had one of those piercings during my senior year of nursing school/clinicals. I put a clear plastic stud in during clinicals...didn't make it any less obvious in my opinion, but none of the nurses or instructors said anything. Now I see nurses with...
  5. crap...am I in huge trouble???

    In orientation, my preceptor was showing me how to hang tube feeding. It was a special kind that she had to request from dietary (wasn't stocked on the floor) and when it finally came up at the end of shift, I spiked the wrong part of the tube feedin...
  6. The happy policy

    Who is supposed to cover your assignment after you get sent home? Staffing is so tight, I just never see this actually happening. Sounds like a scare tactic.
  7. My daughter is quitting nursing school!

    i wouldn't pay for any more of her schooling. she is an adult...if she wants to jump from career to career, she should do it on her own dime, not mom and dad's.
  8. Bookish, low common sense... will I fit in?

    I am just the same way you are! I was considered very smart throughout school, but get me into "real world" situations and I ask so many questions and have to be walked through everything. I have tons of respect for people who may not have gotten the...
  9. Nurses Masquerading As Doctors (INSULTING)

    His message is very inflammatory and seems aimed at stirring people up. The only nurses who are lobbying to be called doctors are ones who have.....received their doctorate degree. We afford that respect to professors and others who have their doctor...
  10. Nasty email from CNS

    Like the other posters have said, I would just go along with your CNS and make an action plan for yourself. It is snarky to send that e-mail right after your "disagreement," but you will waste too much energy fighting it or worrying about it and you...
  11. doing the possible

    I have known several people who failed a class or semester (usually due to unforeseen circumstances such as death or illness in family) and later graduated. If nursing is your dream, keep at it, even if it means taking a semester off or switching to ...
  12. Does anyone else feel this way?

    I don't think it is "crazy" or "scary" that the OP feels this way. What is scary is that some people feel this way, embrace it, never question it, and let it affect their patient care. Kudos to the OP for actually examining her feelings and being hon...
  13. Does anyone have a GOOD manager

    My former manager was awesome, I really respect her because she actually was a tech on the floor, then a staff RN, then the nurse manager. You can't ask for more than that! She had done the job, she knew the job, so she did not tolerate B.S. When I ...
  14. Moving Too Slowly in Emergent Situations

    I completely agree with you about the patient being too unstable for CT. The reason I went was because the surgeons ordered the CT d/t massive abd. distension, and the pt. was doing so poorly anyway....I just figured that the pt. would definately die...
  15. What to do when co-workers can't keep up any more?

    I don't think it is just an age issue. I actually AM 25, and I can't keep up anymore either!