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1. What happens to your integrity when you go into management?

   nightmoves replied to olympiad27's topic in Management

   Please don't make a value judgment until you have walked a mile in my moccasins. I have been a nurse manager for the past eleven years, prior to that I had been pushed towards assuming a leadership role for five years, so I decided that perhaps someb...

2. Army Nurses Face Biggest Battle Of Their Lives In Baghdad

   nightmoves replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   God bless all of our brothers and sisters over there, and may the Creator keep their bodies, souls and spirits in His loving care. --from an old Army nurse who still remembers and grieves.

3. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nightmoves replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   When I was in the service during Vietnam and fresh out of training we had wounded brought in from an aid station via dustoff (helicopter evacuation.) The medic had done a pretty nice job of packaging the wounded GIs and I was being oriented to triage...

4. Would You Pray if your Patient asked?

   nightmoves replied to LasVegasRN's topic in General Nursing

   I can't recall where I saw the results of this study, but patients scheduled for elective surgery at one general hospital were randomly assigned to two groups, and a local church was given a list of the patients in one group with a request for prayer...

5. nursing superstitutions.....any truth in???

   nightmoves replied to micro's topic in General Nursing

   In the course of the last eight years we have only had codes on the pediatric unit when a certain nurse is working that unit and I have the house. Since we don't have a peds critical care unit in our hospital they get transferred to a nearby pediatr...

6. What was most embarrassing moment as a nurse?

   nightmoves replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

   When I was rotated back Stateside to the OR of a military hospital which shall remain nameless I was assigned to the GYN room for a little while. Having worked primarily trauma while in country (not much GYN on a battlefield in those days) I was not...

7. How do you deal with doctors

   nightmoves replied to Mujesira's topic in General Nursing

   One attending surgeon contacted me, screaming at me because of what one of "my" nurses did, and the fact that another one of "my" nurses had called him about him. I motioned him to sit down and he did. My response: "First of all, Doctor, I do not...

8. Do you watch Medical shows?

   nightmoves replied to old-master's topic in General Nursing

   I was on active duty in 1973 and 1974, and have always loved MASH. China Beach, however, reduces me to tears for the most part. Of course, I remember Ben Casey from when I was a little kid. Can't stand anything post-China Beach.

9. Is it like this everywhere???

   nightmoves replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

   When I was first promoted to a head nurse position I inherited one of the worst units in the hospital in terms of backbiting, gossiping, and generalized complaining. Four months into this job I went to my old head nurse and literally cried in her of...

10. Lethal injection nurse???

    nightmoves replied to Zhakrin's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting discussion. Several years ago I worked for the NYS Department of Corrections, just at the time that a new governor was elected, primarily due to his pro-death penalty position (Please note: New York has not executed anyone since the dea...

11. Have you cried?

    nightmoves replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know the URL but you may want to check out this page: Dusty's Home Page. She is an Army Nurse Corp Vietnam veteran. I found her poetry moving as well as disturbing.

12. Nurse Impersonators

    nightmoves replied to NancyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I doubt anyone would like to go back to the days when female nurses wore caps, and you could differentiate an RN from an LPN by the black band that the RN wore on her cap, but there you have it. I was probably one of the last group of nurses graduat...

13. A Man's Perspective: My Life With A Nurse

    nightmoves replied to LoriUSAFRN's topic in Humor

    ROFLMAO!!! How true, how true! I loved the part about never going to dinner with more than one nurse. My husband served with the Army Special Forces in Vietnam (the Green Berets of song and story.) He frequently comments that I could easily outgro...

14. Binge Drinking

    nightmoves replied to MollyJ's topic in General Nursing

    The operant word is control. Loss of control implies problematic drinking. Loss of control implies inability to choose how much to drink when one starts to drink, and for may binge drinkers this is what occurs. An interesting observation: When a...

15. Smoking Cessation

    nightmoves replied to Cubby's topic in General Nursing

    I don't recommend how I quit. Two years ago at work I started to experience what I thought was indigestion. I decided to go outside to get some "fresh air" (read: a nicotine fix.) Whether it was the exertion of walking out of the building or the lo...