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My invisible friends say this won't happen! And they are always right! I love my invisible friends!!

Thank you Drowning, that does help. The more time I spend on this forum, the more I realize that American nursing and Canadian Nursing are very, very different. I think we Canadians have a lot...

Let me preface this by saying I'm Canadian, and from I can see there are huge differences between the way health care is delivered in Canada as compared to the USA. I really don't understand why...

That is creepy!

It may be a calling for some people, but I don't believe that this means you have to sacrifice your own health to take care of others.

Oops! Already posted about isolation pts

Yep - If pts want to call long distance they must call collect or on a calling card. Only certain phones on the unit will dial long distance too.

I asked the student if they knew what Coumadin was for. They did not so I should them how to look it up. I asked if they knew the pt's medical hx. They did not so I helped them look it up. I...

I've been nursing for over 25 years, so I think I am quite skilled to have a student. That doesn't mean that I have 15 minutes to waste explaining why an elevated INR is an expected result of being...

I am very happy to help nursing student. However, the student needs to know that helping them takes a lot of extra time and effort on my part, so a little appreciation would be nice.

I had a Doctor come to the unit once to remove a g-tube. I asked him if the students could watch. He said "sure". I ran around, told every student I could find what was going on and that it they...

weemsp - that reminds me of a story a collegue told me. She was pregnant at the time and having problems with nausea. She walked into her pts room to find her rocking and singing to the large,...

But you don't lighten my workload. I once spent nearly 15 minutes with a student explaining that Yes, it was OK to give the Coumadin with a "elevated" INR of 3.0. Over and over and over I explained...

If my nurse asked me if I had taken Jesus Christ as my saviour, I'd be demanding a new nurse. And please don't pray for me.

I had a pt who blamed her incontinence on her stuffed pig. If she was wet she would point to the pig and say "he did it". We would joke around with her about that stuffed pink pig.. Until one day ...

This is very very hard question to answer. After my original posting, I thought "What if I walked into work tomorrow and found Paul Bernardo (a Canadian rapist and serial killer) (Google him - he...

I had a pt who kept saying he was on a plane. He would ring his bell and ask when the plane was going to land, where we were going etc. but he would also ring the bell for the nurse when he needed...

I was responding to the comment a poster made that he would not want to be a patient in Canada. For the record, I obey all laws and rules. I do not ignore anything. Canada does not have random drug...

Just because we don't have Big Brother watching our every move doesn't 't mean we all come to work high. We are still responsible professionals.

I had a pt who was determined that there was a sniper on the roof across from his window, ready to shoot. Every time I went in, he told me to duck, and watch out! By the end of the shift, I was...

It is a tough one. I'd like to say I would care for him no matter what. But that is easy for me to say when I am hundreds of miles (or kilometres! ) away and have no chance of caring for him. I...

Come to Canada. No drug testing here.

I still remember a nightmare I had when I was a new nurse. I dreamt that I lost the med cart- complete with narcotic drawers. I woke up and started running around my apartment, looking for that...

There is a blue one next to each topics name too. You don't have to open the topic so no scrolling neede

Took me a while too! :) Glad I could help. I love those little buttons.