sunluver

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1. Are you a "Bonified" Nurse?

   sunluver replied to gentlegiver's topic in General Nursing

   I have been a nurse for 24 years and I LOVE LOVE LOVE to wear my cap and white dress and white support hose and polished white shoes. The response from a variety of people has been as follows...Physician "Is that a Halloween costume", "did you get t...

2. Emptying linen and garbage bags. ..part of a Nurses jobs description?

   sunluver replied to Giveheart's topic in General Nursing

   Okay so the question is what or how do you lift patients if you cannot lift a laundry/trash bag? Well the answer is easy! You can drag a bag, but you cannot drag a patient. You ask for help ANY TIME you are pulling a patient up in bed or trying to...

3. You know you're Old School when...

   sunluver replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

   I remember when you calibrated the A-line and Swan-Ganz catheter with a mercury spygmomanometer, a three way stop-cock and a 60cc syringe! Using ice water for cardiac output and performing the calculations on paper! Using needles to get rid of sub-...

4. Enough is Enough

   sunluver replied to abbaking's topic in Relations

   I SO agree with your thoughts about customers and patients. We are currently in a world where "instant gratification" is the expectation! I have been an RN for 22 years and have remained at the bedside. Computers and physicians (not wanting to spe...

5. Pbds

   sunluver posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been away from the bedside teaching for 4 years and decided to get back to the bedside and had to take that test. WOW. As I recall in the hospital you have a lot of teamwork helping to do this and that and thinking over what was going on. Th...