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Oct 31, '08 - 
I've been living on a floating hospital in Liberia for the past nine months now. Coming from a PICU background, I started out completely daunted at the thought of caring for more than two patients. Now, I barely blink when my report sheet has ten names on it, and...
by AliRae 3 comments Last by
Elvish
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Nov 2, '08 - I had been an RN for about 8 years working only in PICU or NICU, when I took a position in the NICU of a brand new hospital. The doors had only been open for a few weeks and the maternity center had been rather slow... therefore, no sick babies yet. The ER, however,...
by PICNICRN 0 comments
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Nov 2, '08 - I had been a nurse for about a year and I loved working in my little LTC in a tiny town. The town was so small that the closest hospital was in a town about 30 miles away…and that town was so small that the hospital only had a doctor on call, there wasn’t a doctor in...
by flashpoint 0 comments
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Nov 1, '08 - "Funny Nursing related Stories"
I was a fairly new step down unit RN in a teaching hospital in NW Oklahoma and as such we had alot of what the locals called "county patients' . I just called them patients from different walks of life. And as such one night I had...
by Psychtrish39 0 comments
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Oct 31, '08 - I have been a nurse for over 18 years now and am blessed to have had many accomplishments throughout in my career. I am so proud to be a part of the nursing profession; and now, as in my role as an educator, I am always sure that I share the good, the bad and the ugly...
by ddemille 0 comments
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Oct 29, '08 - I remember a patient I took care of YEARS ago who was admitted with a broken leg and ruptured bladder. He had been to an AA meeting, gone out and gotten drunk and walked into the pathway of an oncoming car. I worked straight nights then...the 7P to 7A shift.
This...
by ecugirl 2 comments Last by
BSN_after_40
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Mar 19, '08 - I have worked in Geriatric/LTC nursing for over 20 years. The same scenario has played out hundreds of times in my career. It goes something like this: I meet a new person who asks me what I do for a living. I tell them I am a nurse. They are impressed and ask...
by handyrn 23 comments Last by
pill2008
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Oct 29, '08 - Don’t you just hate it when someone picks on you just because you’re the smartest and that it cramps their style? They would think of you as a competition or a threat even though you don’t intend to be. Conflicts often arise from this and these narcissistics:bugeyes:...
by gingerbreadman0214 4 comments Last by
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Oct 30, '08 - a few years back, i was working for a small community mental health office in washington state. i had been asked to cover for another nurse who had gone home sick for the day. i was glad to do this. she had a few patients coming in for anti-psychotic injections so i...
by iamablonde1970 0 comments
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Oct 23, '08 - As a nurse in a big and prestigious university hospital in our country and who has been in the nursing profession for almost two decades, I have already experienced dealing with all sorts of patients. The following incident is the most memorable of all my experiences...
by akoysadiyos 5 comments Last by
mrniceguy
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Oct 29, '08 - So in my first year of nursing school, a lot of interesting things began to happen in my personal life, medically speaking. I did not have a medical background per se going in, but the longer I was in, the more I realized I had done just about a little bit of...
by padme 0 comments
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Oct 29, '08 - While taking my prerequisites to enter nursing school I held a job as a cardiographic technician at the local hospital. I was responsible for performing EKGs, stress tests and EEGs. EEGs was my least favorite task at work but a necessary evil since we were such a small...
by carroll77566 0 comments
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Oct 29, '08 - About 15 years ago, a young Dr. known for practical joke-playing, talked me into assisting him with one of his more outlandish tricks. I usually refuse, because I cannot keep a straight face when I am joking. However, for some reason I went along with his strange idea....
by Katie-in-charge51 0 comments
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Aug 20, '08 - It had been a rough day, and I had to be out of work at 3:30 because I had clinical that evening.
I was doing the usual end of shift vitals when I walked past what had been an empty room all day. In the room chair sat a very petite lady looking very lost and...
by Ms Kylee 6 comments Last by
THANKGOD1922
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Oct 23, '08 - It was a usual week in the Cancer ward for a senior nursing student like me undergoing clinical rotations. It was still early in the curriculum year, so I still have the initial excitement and zeal:rolleyes: in me to do my duties as a health care provider. Not to brag,...
by gingerbreadman0214 2 comments Last by
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