trrinatl

trrinatl has 20 years experience.

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1. LPN students have to give bed baths to classmates?!

   trrinatl replied to Namine's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   at common law, battery is the tort of intentionally (or, in australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them (e.g. a hat, a purse). unlike as...

2. what type of socks do you use??

   trrinatl replied to ct1tx's topic in Uniform/Gear

   Justins boot socks, made for cowboy boots, they are rugged and they provide GREAT support, they don't LOOK like support socks and the actual foot part of the sock wears out before the calf part gets floppy and loose.

3. Thinking of becoming a childrens nurse

   trrinatl replied to jambonsambo's topic in Male Students

   I've never done much Ped's nursing except during my ER work years and my Ped's rotation in my FNP program. BUT, I can tell you something that I found to hold true. Most guys are just big kids anway, given the chance, we'll "shoot" a basket with a wet...

4. Is it to late for me to become a Nurse?

   trrinatl replied to louis345's topic in Pre-Nursing

   First of all, YOU have to decide for yourself if nursing is a field that you would like to enter. When I told my family I was going to nursing school at 21, EVERYONE was against it. My mother had visions of a Notre Dame football playing medical st...

5. Perineal anxiety

   trrinatl replied to caliber's topic in Men

   I'd MUCH rather clean smegma out from under an uncircumsized penis than to dig stool out of a vagina for hours. It's amazing to me how liquid stool seems to flow directly into the ovaries from the labia. Sometimes I wonder if we need one of those pu...

6. help cardiac nurses!

   trrinatl replied to RN75's topic in Safety

   Okay, IMHO your old manager was a WITCH. Just had to get that off my chest. I went to a meeting this past Feb at a Pri-Med convention in Florida and there was a two hour long lunch meeting related to this very issue. The issue was mainly patients ...

7. New hosptial computer systems pull nurses away from patient care

   trrinatl replied to lee1's topic in Safety

   I've worked with computer charting at the VA about 7 years ago, I type pretty fast so the narrative charting was a breeze. As far as "known paper" charting, there is a learning curve to anything you do. I remember getting my first desk top that was a...

8. Using Propofol for conscious sedation

   trrinatl replied to wtbcrna's topic in Safety

   I have used propofol a couple of times for CS but generally for vented patients. The information about half life is confusing, the same source says that it's 30 to 60 minutes, then another place in the same source says it's 6 hours. So even if the p...

9. Gay labeling, is it just plain mean? Or sexual harrassment?

   trrinatl replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in Men

   Our corporate office is in Texas, and most of our hospitals are in California, Trust me, Texas may be southern, but they are MILES ahead of the Bible thumpers in Ga.

10. Gay labeling, is it just plain mean? Or sexual harrassment?

    trrinatl replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in Men

    Maybe I have a distinct advantage of working in a corporate facility. I live in Ga but corporate has a very Texas/California mindset. We actually have sexual indentiy written into our discrimination policy. So basically, it's Okay to be GAY here. ...

11. What are clinicals all about????

    trrinatl replied to BucklandRN's topic in General Students

    I remember the fun days of clinical 22 years ago in nursing school. The first clinical I got into trouble because I Xeroxed the pages out of the drug handbook instead of hand writing them (which I thought was a waste of time since I had hi-lighted t...

12. Docs yelling at nurses....

    trrinatl replied to ClassQ1's topic in Men

    I've been yelled a couple of times in 20 years of being an RN. Usually , i'm the messanger and just relaying info. In 20 years I've also found two great ways for handling the situation. If the doc is on the unit and yelling at me, I simply walk to t...

13. Hospital question

    trrinatl replied to youknowhowwedoit77's topic in Men

    A friend of mine recently was looking into traveling. He just went to Craigs list and posted a request for information about the local hosptials. With some computer savvy he imporvised a Pros and Cons list for each facility. He was able to weed ou...

14. Hair style

    trrinatl replied to Galaknore's topic in Men

    Galaknore, you asked for opinions and I'll be happy to give you mine, but again, it's just MY opinion. That and 1.50$ will buy you a cold soda at the gift shop, so again, it's just my 2 cents worth. When I first started working in hospitals 25 years ...

15. Man Diff...

    trrinatl replied to night_owl_504's topic in Men

    I experienced this same thing and decided that I had to "take ownership of my piece of the problem: allowing it to happen". I came up with a very simple solution. At the beginning of the shift, when i'm asked to help turn or pull up a patient, I in...