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  1. Need help on mark twain quote!

    Learn outside of the box.
  2. Time to call a duck a duck?

    Eh... Most skilled labor positions have 4-5 year apprenticeships (school +OJT) usually with a certificate, sometimes there are options in the careers with an Associates or Bachelors Degree with a few more classes. (Diploma/ADN/BSN anyone?) Many of th...
  3. Hmmm... I have had a flat tire multiple times in a row when I was a young and starving student and couldn't just afford to go buy a new tire (or set) at the drop of a hat (or nail as the case may be). Trying to manage a slow leak with no money can re...
  4. What is your splurge?

    Barnes & Noble! (And they just dropped the price $50 on the 3G+WiFi NOOK!) Home Depot (Power Tools) Snap On (All the other tools) any Gun show... A nice weekend - Read a book or three, work on something on the house, tune up the lawn mower and p...
  5. Just call me Flash

    Just found this relevant bit of ACNP conference material while wandering the net... http://handouts.acnpconference.com/2009/pdf/254.pdf
  6. Just call me Flash

    Can't say that any of this will ever apply to me, but perhaps I can offer some points for consideration... Some studies have shown that soy does work at producing relief from symptoms when from actual food sources. That would be soy milk, whole soyb...
  7. Male Chest Hair and Scrub Tops

    Actually, I only presented the God theory after you yelled about shaving "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD." Was not the focus of my point at all. If my skin gets chewed up from shaving, it doesn't matter what is covering or not covering. T-shirts are not bio-h...
  8. Male Chest Hair and Scrub Tops

    Actually, you 'yelled' "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE SHAVE IT!!" And since you now mention shaving prior to procedures along with your long experience, I'll simply point out that traditionally, surgical sites primarily were shaved with disposable razor...
  9. Male Chest Hair and Scrub Tops

    Eh, I don't care if you've got a unibrow, mustache, hairy chest or hairy mole, I'm not going to say you have to get rid of it.
  10. EEK! There's a woman in my room!

    Yes. Been there, experienced it, no permanent physical damage in my case. Both as a child in the 70's at a Catholic hospital, and as an adult in an Army hospital in the 80's. And as far as the military ensuring privacy goes... just about everyone go...
  11. Male Chest Hair and Scrub Tops

    Since you brought up God... God put it there, I'd be inclined to think that it would be against God to shave it. Even without arguing theology... Just like your eyebrows and eyelashes, which end up everywhere any other body hair will end up (but I ...
  12. Protocol for Going on trip with Patient

    For California you will need an endorsement... http://www.rn.ca.gov/applicants/lic-end.shtml I would suggest a cheap pre-paid cell phone for use while on the trip, to avoid giving out your personal number. You should be able to find Virgin Mobile pho...
  13. Weird kind of tired night last night... was having visions of misbehaving plumbing à la The Three Stooges - "A Plumbing We Will Go." You know, every convoluted thing that can go wrong... Nice catch Roser13. I was quickly pruning several branches of...
  14. Assuming that the reinserted catheter is where it is actually supposed to be... Spastic bladder (common), Hypervolemia doing it's usual thing, kidneys self adjust and slow way down to protect themselves... (common)(patient absorbed a lot of fluids fr...
  15. Ah... ye old hospital smell. Iodoform is scary too, especially if you consider how reactive that stuff can be.