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  1. This is excellent advice! Wish I had an older me giving my younger self this advice when I was a new nurse many moons ago....
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    Forum: Nursing Career Advice
  2. Ok, I did say neither of *us*, how much more specific does one have to get? *LOL*
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    Forum: Registered Nurses: Diploma / ADN / BSN
  3. Run! The girl from The Exorcist is in Room 3!
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    Forum: Information Center
  4. Nah. What bugs me is patients who ask for fried chicken after a heart cath.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  5. What do you do after a rough shift? Have fun with the girls? Eat chocolate? Or, do you just go straight to bed? ...
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    Forum: About A Nurse - Nursing Cartoon Series
  6. I was also taught to never use the first narrative. The objective of charting is that your observations are objective not...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  7. I've taken care of convicts, gang-bangers, gang-bangers victims, victims of family disputes, victims of police shootings,...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  8. I work in the ICU. I send a very difficult pt to the floor (behaviorally) and couldn't imagine taking care of 5-8 more pts...
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    Forum: Medical-Surgical Nursing
  9. I don't let anyone talk to me that way, doctor or not. Because I do home health, I never actually see the doctors, just...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  10. The doctors that I deal with are overall very nice. They value and depend on nurses and we are given a lot of autonomy. I've...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  11. What, exactly, is wrong with 'boosting one's own ego'? And what is wrong with making a distinction between an RN and an...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  12. I agree. I don't work ER but if a patient is "borederline" they should be in the ICU if you don't have a step-down option....
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  13. A hot shower, my bed, and the fan on.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  14. "Remove this foley or I'll pull it out myself!" Do it. I dare you.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  15. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqKGvRLGvb4sdw5QT8CmnmA7BK2JXZmAr9d2R_UhS1vhe-GcO1.......:roflmao:
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    Forum: Nurses Rock
  16. Especially if he said, "Silence! I keel you!"
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  17. At age 83, Granddad was admitted to the hospital for the first time. "What is this?" he asked, as he held up the bell...
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    Forum: Nursing Humor / Share Jokes
  18. Schooldistrictnurse, RN, BSN, NCSN!!!! I passed the national certification exam!
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    Forum: School Nursing
  19. I attended a state university for my ADN-BSN approx 16 years ago. We were required to write papers of the length you...
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    Forum: Registered Nurses: Diploma / ADN / BSN
  20. Manual is more accurate.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  21. Awww. Trust me after the 5th time a Doc yells at you for something that's not your fault, a superwoman coworker...
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    Forum: About A Nurse - Nursing Cartoon Series
  22. I sleep in....That's all I want, just sleep. I always have plans to clean, unpack, prepare meals for the week, run...
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    Forum: About A Nurse - Nursing Cartoon Series
  23. Lets call the whole thing off....! :whistling: ;)
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  24. While I know what you're saying (im a CNA in a local hospital), 99.9999% of nurses are exceptional. This is the problem:...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  25. S.I.G.H. OP, no matter where you work and with whom you work, you will no doubt see the good, the bad and the ugly. ...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  26. Welcome to the real world of nursing my dear, except you have less work than clinical. More nursing schools need to be like...
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    Forum: General Nursing Student
  27. So, did you apply yet? If you can handle 6 or even 5 patients on a cardiac-step down, you'll have no problem in ICU. ...
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    Forum: Critical Care Nursing
  28. No thanks!
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  29. I love 12 hour shifts... I hate working 5 days a week.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  30. 1. How to be a nurse. 2. Not only can physicians be wrong, they frequiently are.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  31. Didn't learn that nurses are also pharmacist, respiratory therapist, clinical techs, physical therapists, cosmetologist,...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  32. This picture wasn't far from truth for me. I graduated nursing school in 1979, and began ER work, which I did for a couple...
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    Forum: Nurses Rock
  33. I've had "bosses" above me ask ridiculous questions or make comments like they know it all and it fried me because I knew...
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    Forum: Nurse Colleague / Patient Relations
  34. You may want to think about relocating if that us an option for you. Depending on where you lube the market may just be to...
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    Forum: LPN / LVN Corner
  35. tnbutterfly came up with it as a variation of the one I came up with a few weeks ago. I hope you enjoy the quote!
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion