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- Weighted blankets are an AMAZING thing. You (and by you, I meant anyone in general) can make them yourself if insurance...8
- Forum: Private Duty Nursing
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- I told my son I was jumping through hoops. I watched as I could literally see him think about me doing a jump through a...7
- Forum: General Nursing Student
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- I've always loved working with my elderly patients! The good news for you is, once you start working you'll get a ton of...1
- Forum: General Nursing Student
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- Drama often ensues when pots point out the color of kettles.35
- Forum: LPN / LVN Nursing Student
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- If you give a patient a cookie, they'll want a glass of milk. If you give them a glass of milk, they'll probably need to...69
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- OP, I'm not sure you are understanding how MRSA gets spread & contact precautions. For easy of visualization, pretend its...9
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- It depends on the level of support. V60s are considered BiPAP machines and ventilators. They can be hooked up to an ETT,...3
- Forum: Pulmonary Nursing
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- They are patients. In a few settings, such as outpatient mental health, patient do prefer to be called clients, but for the...21
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- Yeah, a hundred and fifty years ago, nurses were cleaning rooms and all that noise because they didn't have IVs, chest...19
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- I thought I sucked at math, even though my previous career seemed to use math a lot (Casino Table Games). I discovered, in...3
- Forum: LPN / LVN Nursing Student
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- Well, tried again and couldn't go. I held it all night and desperately had to go, but when I got there I just couldn't. The...5
- Forum: General Nursing Student
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- Yes, thank you! I feel like a lot of people just come here to vent and post their frustrations. Granted, this is a "venting"...1
- Forum: NCLEX Discussion Forum
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- How do I 'like' this ^^^^^ about a million times??? And back in the day (stop rolling your eyes kids) when it wasn't...17
- Forum: NCLEX Discussion Forum
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- Statistics. lol Seriously, I hate math classes, especially nighttime classes, right after dinner.... :p2
- Forum: Pre-Nursing Student
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- The answer is....do you utilize the rest room every day? Then so does your patient....and if you wish to be a good ADVANCED...15
- Forum: General Nursing Student
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- Meds should never, ever be put in your pocket. Think of it as a lesson learned.9
- Forum: Nursing and Patient Medications
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- I did the exact same thing! I had to run and pull the Ativan and other meds from another Pyxis on another unit. ...3
- Forum: Nursing and Patient Medications
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- Unless YOU make a big deal of it, the nursing staff will never know whether you have excellent insurance, pay cash for your...9
- Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
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- To me it sounds like they are putting the nurses in an untenable position. Why is management making you do their job? It...10
- Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
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- As an afterthought, I am reminded of one patient who whined that it was hard for her to "reach back there" because she was...31
- Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
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- I work in an ICU. I lay out the plan for the night right up front. I tell them I will be in the room at least every hour to...19
- Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
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- I am not sure what area you work in......or if you deal with the transfer of patients to other facilities....or work in...8
- Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
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- I usually tell patients goodbye and if I really liked them then I'll spend a few minutes talking to them if I know I won't...7
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- The thank you notes/cards need to come from the hospital administration, not the bedside nurses, IMHO.15
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- Yes, I'm sorry, but this is strange. Now if the hospital wants to send home a brochure that says, "Thank you for using THUS...8
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- I think reorientation has its place, like for meals and bedtime. "You had breakfast this morning, right now we're having...2
- Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
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- Lie to me. Tell me I am being held in safety from all my fans who would overwhelm me. But whatever you do, please don't...7
- Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
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- What the OP did is called therapeutic lying, which is recommended in middle and late stage dementia. It is much more humane...10
- Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
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- We have a former DON patient who is a high fall risk, especially overnight ,so the nurses give her a clipboard and she goes...18
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- Have a little compassion. While screaming back was not the ideal response (which the OP recognizes), the OP did not do...76
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- Ditto what MInurse says. We get lots of NG tubes (adult floor) and those are our orders as well. I've not heard of using...1
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- Worked at one time with a doc who had a bad case of "small man syndrome". (He was about my height - 5'3") I informed him...10
- Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
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- Yeah, that question is your opportunity to showcase things about you that can't show up on a resume. A story about why you...1
- Forum: Nursing First Job Hunt Assistance
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- BTW just to clarify, I didn't mean answer every single question even if you know that you don't know the answer. I meant,...1
- Forum: General Nursing Student
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- CNA work? Come on. Put the patient on the freaking bedpan already. Do your assessment while you're at it. (butt, skin,...52
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
