antihippie

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  1. Conflicted over starting INH

    I was in the same boat about a year ago and went ahead and took the INH. I had no problems with it at all other than the doc not telling me that it acted as an alcohol enhancher (hammered on two beers). I never felt any side-effects and am glad I did...
  2. Horrid clinical uniforms

    I must be just born lucky, our uniforms aren't bad at all. We wear royal bkue scrubs with a white t-shirt underneath (or long sleeves for me because of tatoos) and I have been wearing low top Chuck Taylors in clinical for the past year with no compla...
  3. Tattoos?

    I've got large tats on both forearms from the Navy and just wear long sleeves under my scrubs. My hospital doesn't have a policy but I think it makes some of my older patients uncomfortable seeing some inked up guy walk into their room and say "I'm t...
  4. Has anyone here had to do clinicals in OB

    Never had a problem on my OB rotation, I got to see 7 vag deliveries and a C-section and as far as I know was never turned down by anyone. OB was a fun rotation but I wouldn't want to do it for a living due to the fact that I like too see new stuff i...
  5. I felt pretty much the same way until a few weeks ago. I'm in a 2 year program and even though I work as a tech I felt that I was shaky on Med admin and assessment until This clinical rotation (leadership). Our instructor gives us each 4 patients of ...
  6. Difficulty with a CNA

    As a tech I can totally commiserate with the original poster, lazy CNAs drive those of us who do work hard just as nuts as they do the nurses. It not only makes the rest of us look like crap but it makes for more work for the rest of us when the RNs ...
  7. Heart Attack Grill (20/20 ABC show)

    I am slightly confused here, so please help me out. I have spent my entire life being told that women are just as tough and capable as men if not even more able due to women "having a higher tolerance for pain due to childbirth." But it seems that wh...
  8. Universal Healthcare

    Maybe I am missing something and if so please feel free to point it out. It seems that all I hear about HMOs is how bad they are at providing care and limiting patient choice in favor of getting forms filled out but some people want to create a giant...
  9. "Med-Surg first"..need advice from a student RN

    The OP is in the same position I am in, except I graduate in May instead of December, so this is a topic I've thought about alot. One thing that made me finally say forget Med/Surg for a year before the OR is that it seems all the nurses that were te...
  10. med administration question

    There is a nurse on my unit that administers pain meds in a fashion that to me seems wrong. For instance the other day the order was for Ativan and Dilaudid q4 starting at 1400. instead of giving them both every 4 hours she gave the Ativan at 1400, t...
  11. Somebody wants me!!!

    I am 3 weeks away from finishing my first Med/Surg rotation and was getting discouraged. I have never worked health care before and I know that just because I will be an ADN graduate in a year I won't be ready to be a nurse, so I have been applying l...
  12. OB rotation is awesome

    My rotation was great, I saw 5 NSVDs, 1 C-section and a tubal ligation. I was also lucky enough that every birth I attended was on a Wednesday so I was able to do the post-partum care on Thursday for the family from the day before. My best was a you...
  13. male nurses in OB

    Why is it acceptable to refuse to allow a nurse to perform his job because of his sex but unacceptable to refuse for any other reason? Why would it be any less acceptable to refuse care from blacks, Hispanics, gays, fat people, Muslims or any other g...
  14. male nurses in OB

    Just a thought, but I was wounded by a middle-eastern Muslim in Iraq. Does this mean that due to my "emotional reaction" to the event I can refuse to be cared for by a Muslim nurse, how about middle-easterners, or even brown people in general as "the...
  15. I for one chose nursing as a way to help others and be well compensated at the same time. If someone truly believes that money should have nothing to do with becoming a nurse, more power to them. They can graduate and then just volunteer as a nurse f...