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  1. You nailed it!!
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  2. Most of us work/worked up til we delivered. I contracted all night, pushed a kid to OR right at shift change and made a...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  3. Monkeybug, that once happened to me! He wasn't a diabetic, but was on a clear liquid diet. The family pitched a fit and...
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    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  4. Ode to the wonderfulness of being Magnet!!! (Magnet status is an awesome thing when done for the right reasons and in the...
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    Forum: General Articles About Nursing
  5. Ewww…..Just Ewww… As a disabled person I do all of my care on my own, I feel so lucky to be able to do so. I could not...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  6. Another general thanks to the responses! Esme, I wasn't asking for medical advice, sorry if that was confusing :) I just...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  7. Caregiver1977- how rude of them! When I was in L&D, I actually get excited when my bad-pushing mom would finally have a...
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    Forum: Ob/Gyn Nursing
  8. I still consider nursing in the medical field but we are now off topic.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  9. NCMcman, You are right that you have to be vigilant. We all need to be careful when we are handling sharps and yes, you...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  10. Oh, I educated the hell out of him the next time I saw him. He was mortified, and I'll bet he never did it again.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  11. I bet you'd feel differently if it was your social security number that was being used.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  12. I do get rather tired of seeing that the patient is divorced and lives with their ex-spouse. It's pretty tiring to bust butt...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  13. but, so is condoning fraud.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  14. Hence why you start them doing compression rounds.
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  15. Where does that state we must go to work sick? Even nuns get sick days, why not nurses?
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  16. I do not work in home health so there may be intracacies I'm unaware of but in a very basic sense ... the nursing notes are...
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    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  17. Meh, don't feel guilty. You would have been useless at work today and everyone around you would have had to pick up your...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  18. Dude. Think of it this way. Pretend you are the patient lying in that bed, do you really want a sleep deprived nurse who is...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  19. I had my BS (psych) before getting my diploma in nursing. I believe that diplomas are more specific to nursing and offers...
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    Forum: Registered Nurses: Diploma / ADN / BSN
  20. Are you evaluating her work performance or what she rants and raves on the internet on HER time? I think it would be very...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  21. While d/c ing a foley...Had the sweetest little old guy say quite sincerely, "You seem like a nice enough whore, but I don't...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  22. Just yesterday we were at the grocery store and this lady started talking to my daughter (she's 6) and I tried to hurry my...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  23. Worked at a Catholic nursing home as an aide in high school. They didn't have a dedicated Alzheimer's unit, but first floor...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  24. As a CNA working during nursing school on a geri psych unit: Had a little old lady, 70's but ambulatory. On the 2nd day I...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  25. When i was in LTC, the administrator used to like dropping by unannounced. One morning she walked in while I was in the...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  26. I work at a Long Term care Psych Unit. my resident is a 76 y.o. dementia patient. Me: Sir were gonna go find your bed...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  27. Back when I was a CNA in a LTC, there was a really sweet little old lady. She used to be a school teacher and would read...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  28. Just the other day I was a 1:1 with a cognitive impairment fellow... We were having a very interesting conversation about...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  29. Violation of HIPAA is violation, no matter who the culprit is. Report to the privacy office and let them handle it. As to...
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    Forum: HIPAA and Nursing Challenges
  30. One of my most memorable reactions/remarks from a patient was bittersweet. He was going home on hospice with a fast growing...
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    Forum: About A Nurse - Nursing Cartoon Series
  31. When I was a student I was pretty disgusted at some of the nurses who rolled their eyes, talked and laughed during report,...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  32. It seems like this is common for those in the "helping" professions (social workers, teachers, police officers, etc). There...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  33. I would have kept the six figure promotion.
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  34. "We care about you as an employee"
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  35. Infusion Nursing Society literature recommends running intermittent infusions as a secondary for the purpose of ensuring...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion