BlueRidgeHomeRN

BlueRidgeHomeRN specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.

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1. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX

   sorry, i have switched over to the congressional record. go find a little friend to play with, dear...

2. It's Hard to Live with a Nurse because....

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to nurz2be's topic in Humor

   my husband says he'd just once like to hold hands without my taking his pulse, .....or.....tell me his back hurts without me asking him to rate the pain, decribe what makes it better/worse, and throwing ice packs on him while shoveling advil down his...

3. If MRSA gets on our clothes easily, why don't more of us become colonized?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   per the cdc, vets are more heavily colonized than human healthcare personnel, but are rarely infected or symptomatic. at this point, pandora is out of the box, and we can only hope that doctors, especially pediatric docs, have enough backbone to st...

4. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX

   you could always do a retrograde analysis to find the answer, after defining your parameters and definitions...or you could look back to the question posed by the op.

5. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX

   gee, i don't know. how many tries did you need?

6. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX

   yeah, well, that and having a 3.97 average, the clinical leadership award, and aggresively continuing my education (board certified in three, soon to be four areas) i make no apologies for busting my fanny to become and remain a good nurse.

7. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX

   that's very nice...and meaningless. has it changed their knowledge base or their ability to deal with highly stressful situations? at this point they have been out of nursing school for at least two years, losing their minimal skills. and "deemed c...

8. NCLEX: How many times is enough?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to PMHNP10's topic in NCLEX

   i'm not interested in being "in that person's shoes..". i am interested in the patient lying in the bed being cared for by miss or mr. passed-on-the-ninth-try, rn.

9. Nights or Days? What say you?

   BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to JHansen's topic in General Nursing

   love the atomosphere on nights, but can't do it physically. nights literally almost killed me, but i'm a bed by 9 up at 5 sorta farmer's hours person. depends on your biological clock..

10. Hispanic patients

    BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to RNfromMS's topic in Ob/Gyn

    yup..but these aren't "visitors"..

11. Nurse as a Patient, treated badly, wanting to rant

    BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to chloeysmom's topic in Activism

    i had a horrible episode in my own hospital years ago which culminated in my signing out ama also. i was on the phone to the insurance company and my md the next morning at 0900, and sent a long letter to the vp of nursing, and cc'd everyone i could...

12. What is the best thing to put on diaper rash?

    BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    another vote for air..i lined a playpen with newspaper and let the little guy hang out bare-bottomed for as long as possible. when one of mine got a nasty yeast rash (from my antibiotics) we had to layer a&d over nystatin for a month to get it c...

13. How do Nursing Instructors deal with this? Clinical site RNs don't want us around

    BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to chicagrl's topic in General Students

    i have never seen this in a staff rn's job description, nor have i ever written it into one as a manager. precepting is an additonal duty, and not all nurses are good at teaching....and mentoring is by definition voluntary.

14. How do Nursing Instructors deal with this? Clinical site RNs don't want us around

    BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to chicagrl's topic in General Students

    sadly, all it takes is one arrogant and unprepared student from the xyz school of nursing, and nurses don't want to work with any students from xyz. some nurses are awful to everyone, no doubt there, but even the nicest nurse gets put off by the bad...

15. How do Nursing Instructors deal with this? Clinical site RNs don't want us around

    BlueRidgeHomeRN replied to chicagrl's topic in General Students

    ..and who the hospital does or does not hire is a moot point, since students with superiority attitudes rarely get "rn" after their names.