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  1. Our hospital's policy is that you can wear "earth tone" polish (meaning, purple or green is out, sorry) that must be...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  2. i'm a real nurse who wears gel nail polish. as stated in my previous post this polish does not chip or wear. i wear a...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  3. Since I'm a total girly girl, I do wear nail polish. I get gel manicure. The gel polish does not chip like regular polish...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  4. Very informative Commuter, thank you. One time when working in the ED I accidently let the rail down on the patients' leg....
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  5. The first year of nursing is, in countless cases, also one of the most challenging years of a nurse's career because many...
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    Forum: First Year After Nursing Licensure
  6. I think this person meant for us not to step in the "puddle" of sarcasm, and they were advocating doing something to stop...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  7. For me, it depends on what time, before work is. I start each day with coffee. I find that my coffee is best without a...
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    Forum: Health / Stress Management 101
  8. a new graduate nurse with a job? hahahah. yeah that's a good one.
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    Forum: About A Nurse - Nursing Cartoon Series
  9. The Canadian economy is lukewarm at best. Many of our facilities are understaffed, and more budget cuts coming. Instead of...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  10. I don't understand what you are complaining about? Sounds like you are on a high horse and consider yourself better then...
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    Forum: Nurse Practitioners (NP)
  11. And another thing.. we in the healthcare industry are one of the few who have people knocking on our door for our services,...
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    Forum: Nurse Practitioners (NP)
  12. ROTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  13. The male vs. female pay comparison is a bit of a canard. I know I make considerably more than female coworkers in my...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  14. You know, when I graduated I wanted to be a pediatric nurse practitioner so I planned to get a job in peds in the local...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  15. When I worked in LTC as an aide, I was often caring for those residents as they drew their last breath. I spoke to them,...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  16. Thank you for sharing this, Commuter. Nurses wo say they could never work in LTC because it seems like a "pointless" job...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  17. One of my sweet patients, a gentleman in his late 80s, died not too long ago. To keep things short and sweet, I will leave...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  18. Dearest British "Hoaxed" Nurse (Nurse Saldanha): As an American Nurse I know our scope may be different, but we are both...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  19. Sounds like a crazy policy to me. What do you do if you can't get visitors to agree to be witnesses? And it does seem like...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  20. Wow, OP, do YOU do all of that? Every time? Because if you have an employer that allows you time to do all that within your...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  21. Of course I cut corners, only way to survive as an RN. I cannot give you all of your medication information when I...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  22. Funny you should say that because I do ask myself when I'm tempted to cut a corner. The answer though is, yes, I still cut...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  23. I'd be a handless nurse if I washed my hands every time I entered and before I exited a room, and I feel it isn't cutting...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  24. Wow, you have the kid thing all planned out ;). Life does not always work out the way we "plan" (literally for you) but I...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism
  25. They are not locking themselves out of advanced practice. No experience required for NP or CNS. CRNA and CNMW do require...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism
  26. I will be done with the RN-BSN program at the end of December. That will be 18 months, total to complete it. I am in the...
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    Forum: Western Governors University Online Nursing Degrees
  27. BSN took three months exactly. MSN will have taken 8 months and only because I threw a major temper tantrum over being...
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    Forum: Western Governors University Online Nursing Degrees
  28. I have only been at a short term rehab/LTC facility for about four months on my own, but I won't sugar coat it for you. It...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  29. I finished my BSN in about 6 weeks, but that was because I was working nights at a job with a ridiculous amount of down time...
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    Forum: Western Governors University Online Nursing Degrees
  30. 6 months, working full-time and with 2 kids. It was a lot of work, but worth it!
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    Forum: Western Governors University Online Nursing Degrees
  31. I've worked LTC for 2 years, started there as a new grad. What many people don't understand is that you see the same acuity...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  32. I could have written this post. I worked in LTC for three years and had to put up with some of the same attitudes. LTC are...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  33. Dear new grad, I am sorry (sort of) that you did not get your dream job in a hospital and you are here instead. I know...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  34. Dude...what's your problem? If you don't want the burden of precepting, or working with students then don't! All of this is...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  35. Yes, I hate reading but lol I'm starting to love these blogs. lol I love being a machine, but I would says its an experience...
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    Forum: Ohio Nursing