Kim5/08

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  1. Would you ever be a scab?

    If I was a patient in a hospital, I sure as hell would hope someone would cross the line to come take care of me. I guess I just look at things from a different
  2. Never driving to work in snow again

    LoL, thanks Horeshoe! I can be "compter stupid" sometimes. It just took me 15 minutes to figure out to hit the + key on each one and then click
  3. I am basing this on the availability of jobs NOW in MY area (I have stated before I am in Michigan-from my sister-in-law on the west side of the state, me in mid-MI, mother-in-law and two cousins on...
  4. As you may have already found from this site is there are those who will discourage you stating things like nursing isn't all it cracked up to be, there are no jobs out there, get into something else!...
  5. Funny Nursing Dreams

    Reading these, I was glad to discover I am normal! I've had the IV beeping (and bed alarm) only to find it's my alarm clock and end of shift only to discover I had a patient I haven't seen all
  6. Never driving to work in snow again

    Becuase I agreed with you and was carrying the "Nancy nurse" analogy another step. At the end, my comment was intended to say I was glad to see not everyone had the same nasty attitude. Maybe I didn't...
  7. Never driving to work in snow again

    And what if Nancy the Nurse has children at home, too, who due to snow are now not going to school?? Betty the Babysitter is required to stay and continue watching her kids? I guess it's easy if you...
  8. Never driving to work in snow again

    [quote=XLR99;4755818 Here's an interesting anecdote - a few years back when I worked in the OR, we had one of the monster storms come over. About a third of the OR staff called off, but ALL the...
  9. How to teach an experienced nurse

    Given you have done everything you have to this point, If I kept getting the answer "I know." I, being a bit blunt myself (but I hope polite) would respond with "Then why haven't you?" If she then...
  10. Everyone wears scrubs!

    That is where the term "scrubbing in" was coined, however, the term "scrubs" finds it's origin in the late 1960's to early 70's where surgical greens were soon referred to as scrubs (and were no...
  11. essential oils killing super bugs?

    I was curious, too. A quick google search results in many
  12. 4 Nursing Diagnosis for H5N1

    Isn't Dehydration a medical diagnosis? Wouldn't the equivelant nursing diagnosis be fluid volume deficit r/t fever, etc? Altered body temperature r/t illness Altered Nurtrition: Less than body...
  13. Just my two cents based on your own comments to the situation and I mean this to be something to think of constructively and from less of an emotional standpoint.- This is unfortunate, but has been...
  14. What do you get from BSN?

    Being a "second career" ADN, I came to nursing with my previous "life experiences" and critical thinking skills. From what I have read in many posts, I was fortunate to have an ADN program that very...
  15. Everyone wears scrubs!

    I wonder if surgical staff had this same discussion when their scrubs...origin being for "scrubbing in"... extended out of the operating room to the rest of the hospital staff!? I guess I took it for...