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May 17, '09 - 
the novice stage - we've all experienced it. it's a time of stretching and rapid personal and professional growth.
the stretching can be humbling and painful, as shortcomings in our performance are inevitable. if we learn from our mistakes, however, we will...
by VickyRN 6 comments Last by
Akeeka
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Mar 11, '09 - I bumped into an old boss the other day and he asked what I am doing with myself these days. I replied that I am a nurse, he smiled and said that he remembered me at 18 wanting to become a nurse and how everything got in my way to acheiving my dream. He was so happy...
by twistedpupchaser 47 comments Last by
MeggaRN
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Feb 16, '09 - Ask anyone who knows me very well, and they can tell you what I have wanted to be when I “grow up” since I was 14 years old; a nurse. To be a nurse means to be compassionate, brave, and holding yourself up to very high standards while still encompassing the raw passion...
by blt3535 24 comments Last by
TuTonka
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Mar 11, '09 - Student Nurse – Class of 2010
One of my personal heroes came into my life in the most unexpected of ways. I have been working as a nursing assistant at a local hospital while going to school full-time to become a registered nurse. When I started my job in July...
by jeninthedesert 13 comments Last by
tracyd77
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Dec 28, '07 - I wanted to be a nurse since I was 13. My grandmother was diagnosed with Cancer in October of 1992 and died in July of 1993. She heard the word “cancer” and didn’t want to fight. Even at the young age of 12, I was helping my family take care of her. My father had been...
by Nurset1981 2 comments Last by
melonbelly7
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Apr 15, '09 - I had just started to work at this newer and larger hospital in 1982 and it was on a telemety unit that specialized in post open heart surgery. I wasn't sure that I wanted to work at another Catholic hospital again. I worked at one in Texas a few years earlier and I...
by csclarkrn 3 comments Last by
shena kaye
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Feb 9, '09 - The hospital in which I work has a contract with our state wherein all pregnant prisoners deliver at our hospital, regardless of home county. This population has a special set of needs to consider.
Prisoners get a very short hospital stay - for a normal vaginal...
by Elvish 8 comments Last by
Elvish
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Apr 12, '09 - The good thing about writing about my beginnings in the nursing field more than 2 years after the fact is that it's easy to see how far I've come. Case in point: when I started working in the hospital, my experiences in the medical field included several emergency...
by 86toronado 9 comments Last by
PadillaCMALPN
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Jan 22, '09 - “You mean you actually work for free?” the tall handsome Brazilian was saying as I noticed a look of incredulousness spread across his face. I returned the same look while saying that the spirit of volunteerism is alive and well in the United States and everywhere you...
by momofstudent 16 comments Last by
alan headbloom
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Nov 15, '07 - I always assumed, as a new nurse, that after a year or so, I’d know it all.
There are some things for which school prepares you. How to spike an IV bag, how to administer standard medications as scheduled; how to make the perfect care plan. Yet nursing is not...
by hellerd2003 1 comments Last by
diane227
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Nov 28, '07 - Abuse, neglect or exploitation of a patient or resident of a care facility is a crime.
I am sure all reading are thinking that they would never tolerate any such behavior. But do you?
Think of the unconcious post op that comes in with bizarre tatoos or...
by cmo421 1 comments Last by
diane227
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Mar 21, '09 - RETIREMENT WHEN?
Years have passed with my hair turning a shade of white. I walk with a slight limp, but chronologically not as old as one might think. Flat feet, and varicosities well hidden under pant legs for none to see, working as a nurse “humpin the...
by Lindsey McGraw 8 comments Last by
Mahage
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Mar 18, '09 - Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.......
I am a seasoned long-term care nurse. I deal with life and death matters all the time. My voice is often the last one a patient hears, and my hand the last human touch he or she feels. It's OK most...
by VivaLasViejas 28 comments Last by
FireStarterRN
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Feb 12, '09 - recently on allnurses i read a thread that bothered me and felt it was worth investigation, it was regarding foreign nurses taking jobs from americans. i feel this is a real fear amongst new grads but in todays financial climate is it realistic or unjustified.
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by madwife2002 11 comments Last by
traumaRUs
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Mar 23, '09 - Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is a statistical technique that blends analysis of variance and linear regression analysis. It is a more sophisticated method of testing the significance of differences among group means because it adjusts scores on the dependent...
by VickyRN 1 comments Last by
zuzi
