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1. Need some info about Weekend Option

   Pray replied to shewalke's topic in General Nursing

   I do the weekend package and it works quite nicely for my family. I work 24 and get paid for 36, unless I am off on call, then it is less. Works for me, because I am divorced, my ex gets the kids every other weekend when I am working anyway, and I ...

2. Nurses: Who came from a dysfuntional family?

   Pray replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

   no for me. Good, loving, very supportive, tight family unit. Had a dad who always told me I could do anything, grew up with a lot of humor in the family. Only thing I can say is that my dad always told me I would make a good nurse someday and my ...

3. Calling the OB for decels..

   Pray replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I would not call the doc for one "late" deceleration. Unless you have other changes that are nonreassuring such as baseline changes, fetal tachycardia, or anything that makes you think baby is acidotic like poor variability. Or uterine hyperstim, in...

4. on call pay?

   Pray posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Please forgive me if this has been covered.. but I was wondering how much money per hour your hospital pays you to stay home on call. (OB, L and D) I never questioned this before, except I have had three days this payperiod on call, and our hospital ...

5. Please help me understand/Domestic Violence Question

   Pray replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

   I came from a family who couldn't be more loving. My dad is the BEST and my mother, siblings are all great. My sister and brother both have good marriages. Then there is me. I truly think that I never met anyone that would hurt another person and...

6. More Strange Baby Names

   Pray replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   We had a baby in our nursery named "Tonanonaneesha". The nurse making out the crib cards was singing, "It is the name that never ends..it just goes on and on, my friends..."

7. Depression amoung OR nurses after organ harvesting

   Pray replied to redding6's topic in Operating Room

   years ago I helped harvest eyes for the corneas. This was actually done in the morgue, while another autopsy was going on. I was 23 at the time (now 41) and the experience at the time was not so terrible as the experience I had at home that night. ...

8. Sore Hands !

   Pray replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   Chapstick the cracks (with a new chapstick-not one you used already on your lips!)

9. Native American Reservations?

   Pray replied to twinmommy+2's topic in Rural

   For the past five years I have been going to a native american (Lakota) res in South Dakota called Rosebud. The people there are very poor, but open to people coming in to help them. They have a local clinic in Mission, South Dakota and a hospital ...

10. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Pray replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

    Quite a few years back, when Saturday Night Live was on and they had that skit about the "copy guy" (you know, the guy who would talk to everyone who made copies... "Cindy, the cinstress... Makin' copies...") I made a big fool of myself over the ph...