bassandtea

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1. Vegan Diet - Healthy?

   bassandtea replied to Lily C.'s topic in General Nursing

   I occasionally eat potato chips/crisps, cakes, cookies and muffins. I make most of the cakes, cookies and muffins I eat myself and have a reputation for making the most amazing cakes (so much so before I made a career change to nursing the people in...

2. Vegan Diet - Healthy?

   bassandtea replied to Lily C.'s topic in General Nursing

   To be honest I don't have much of a problem staying full and if I do feel hungry between meals I'm more likely to eat a healthy snack like an apple or a banana or carrot sicks and hummus. I love eating pasta dishes which I find filling. I also hav...

3. Vegan Diet - Healthy?

   bassandtea replied to Lily C.'s topic in General Nursing

   For many vegans no animal can be raised humanely for food consumption, because at its most basic to kill another conscious living being for food alone goes against what they consider humane. While fresh food is ideal there are other options for those...

4. Vegan Diet - Healthy?

   bassandtea replied to Lily C.'s topic in General Nursing

   That might be so, but this thread is on vegan food and cheese is not vegan, as a vegan diet is free from all animal products - including cheese, milk and even honey. For those wanting to know more about maintaining a healthy vegan diet I would have t...

5. Vegan Diet - Healthy?

   bassandtea replied to Lily C.'s topic in General Nursing

   A well balanced vegan diet is healthy for all stages of development. Most of the vegans that I have met and know have a greater knowledge of human nutrition than those that are not vegan. They spend time researching what foods offer the most balanc...

6. Too good-looking

   bassandtea replied to GOMER42's topic in General Nursing

   :chuckle I can relate to that one. When I was on prac one of the RNs I was working with asked how old I was, expecting to hear 18 at the oldest she literally fell off her chair when I told her I was 28!

7. *Weird* Patient Allergies

   bassandtea replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

   I actually don't find pizza all that strange since I'm allergic to virtually everything that is used as a pizza topping!

8. *Weird* Patient Allergies

   bassandtea replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

   I have an extremely severe intolerance or mild allergy to: aged meats/fish, cheese, chocolate, banana, bacon, ham, salmon, olive oil, most nuts and alcohol just to name a few. Bacon is one of the worst triggering an immune reaction that causes me t...

9. New grads on the Floor.

   bassandtea replied to LVN2010M's topic in General Nursing

   When I was out on my first prac I noticed a lot of things were done differently from how they were in school. One thing I really appreciated was when my preceptors would let me ask why there was a difference and give me a good answer. Having a rati...

10. trichotillomania

    bassandtea replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    My understanding is that it's not OCD, but an OCD spectrum disorder, similar in some ways to dermotillimania (compulsive skin picking)

11. Many nurses on depression or anxiety meds?

    bassandtea replied to avsmch's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for clarifying your post multicollinearity. I've had a number of people tell me that medication for anxiety and depression isn't required and that I should stop taking my medication, which gets frustrating. I've tried various talk therapies,...

12. Many nurses on depression or anxiety meds?

    bassandtea replied to avsmch's topic in General Nursing

    It's a complex issue and I can only speak for myself. In my case depression and anxiety are totally unrelated to nursing school, since I was diagnosed 18 years before starting. I believe that genetics have a lot to do with it in my case as there is...

13. out of work all day on allnurses.com

    bassandtea replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in Online Learning

    I don't know about Excelsior, but as a nurse it is very likely you will work 12 hour shifts - it happens in the USA and over here in Australia. Like with any job where you have a duty of care to patients/the public it's also possible that you will b...

14. Wow, you new nurses !

    bassandtea replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    As a student I fully expect my first couple of years out of nursing school to be stressful. I've worked in stressful environments in the past and expect nursing to be at least as stressful, if not more so. From what I have seen new nurses have a lot...

15. Student Nurses

    bassandtea replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I recently did my first placement and was lucky to have some of the most amazing RNs to work with, however not all of my classmates were so lucky. The ward I was working on had a few recent graduates and a nurse educator. As a student I was taken al...