mechai44

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1. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   mechai44 replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   I stood behind a physician as he attempted to explain why the medications this particularly patient was told he "had to have" didn't work on the patient. The patient asked, "You told me in the ER that this would work but it hasn't. Why didn't it wo...

2. Being blamed for fall after shift

   mechai44 replied to notyetnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I think it's important, too, to consider those patients who are AAOx3 but are impulsive whether from a concept of wanting to move their inpatient stay along by doing more, trying to do more because they feel better, or impulse control issues related ...

3. Chicago

   mechai44 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a BSN nurse with CRRN and WCC certification. I have 5+ years of bedside nursing including several years now in a hospital on the acute rehab unit and as a med/surg pull. I am in the early stages of planning a move to the Chicago metro area. I...

4. If you had a choice between 2 year community, or a university....

   mechai44 replied to Lala27poodles's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Go for the BSN if you can. I just read in a nursing journal that some states are considering BSN nurses only. http://news.nurse.com/article/20100222/NJ01/302220003 It may be more specific to certain areas of the country so keep that in mind, howe...

5. How do you wear your hair for clinicals?

   mechai44 replied to Kamdyn's topic in General Students

   Our instructors told us we could only use a ponytail. They said that banana clips, barettes, boby pins and other "clips" could be used as weapons against us by delirious or aggressive patients. They also told us no scarves, head bands, etc. It was...

6. Wow, you new nurses !

   mechai44 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

   I think on some level everyone is right on this topic. Yes, we new nurses/nursing students are stressed and scrambling to keep up. I think valid points have been made regarding the nursing education, good preceptors, actual hands on experience vs. ...

7. ER Nurses contracting MRSA

   mechai44 replied to ernurseodessa's topic in Emergency

   Let me tell you my story, Folks. I worked as an office manager for a pcp practice for adolescents for 5 years. To my recollection we never had a patient with MRSA or even a staph infection cross our threshold. And, as a manager I had little to no ...