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  1. allnurses YouTube Contest - Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card

    Subscribed! LOVE the nursing humour!
  2. Why do we do codes?

    In our area, we have "Goals of Care". Ideally this is to be discussed with EVERY patient who enters hospital. In Goals of Care, patients can choose from 3 levels of resuscitative care (chest compressions; intubation and meds; or meds only), 3 levels ...
  3. Making the Most of Textbooks

    (I cannot take full credit for this little gem. I read it somewhere. It's still fantastic and I recommend it to my nursing students.) When you're assigned a chapter to read in the textbook don't read the whole thing. Go to the END of the chapter and ...
  4. Question to Catholic nurses

    If the Sacred Host loses the appearance of bread it no longer is the Body of Jesus Christ. This is possibly why the lay minister refused to give Holy Communion. I strongly agree with the idea of Anointing of the Sick.
  5. I have no words. I have a thousand words.

    Thank you. I am a former hospice nurse (now a nursing instructor) and working in hospice was one of the best experiences of my life. It's not usually depressing. Rather, it's a chance to practice what I think is the essence of nursing - helping peopl...
  6. Every Mom, Dad, Sis, Uncle Believes They Know Better Than The Nurse...

    I worked in a rural hospital for a couple of years. We had a patient come in one evening with very high BP. (Can't remember the exact number but it was way up there.) We started her on BP meds, ordered some labs including a fasting lipid profile for ...
  7. Major Med Error

    My experience is that in most cases, unless the order was particularly egregious (e.g. you gave an opiate-naive patient 10 mg of hydromorphone and the patient died) it's unlikely you would be fired. Hospitals are generally starting to recognize that ...
  8. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    You are not allowed to talk during medical shows. Or, no one will watch medical shows with you anymore as you spend all your time commenting on the diagnoses and treatments, or pointing out the mistakes.
  9. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    Or, you wake up in the middle of the night, scared to death because it's 3 am and you forgot to give your patient his 2 am meds - and then realize it's your day off.
  10. From One Student To Another - Student Tips

    I SO recommend the reading method discussed. I'm now a nursing instructor and I teach pediatrics and community nursing. Our mat/peds textbook, in particular, contains FAR more information than students ever need to know. On the advice of a colleague ...
  11. Lucky he was constipated, or he'd be dead

    4th year preceptorship. Rural hospital. Patient (older male) comes in for a routine dressing change - had an incident with a table saw about a week ago and lost a couple of fingers, I think. Mentions that he feels a bit dizzy. Heart rate 150, atrial ...