Zizka

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1. Health Profession & Wacko's

   Zizka replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

   Well thats very kind of you Mr Tweety.

2. Angry mom treated rotten in ER today

   Zizka replied to Purple Princess's topic in Emergency

   Oop's I missed that, my bad.

3. Do you think "isolation precautions" are outdated?

   Zizka replied to Fairlythere's topic in General Nursing

   Agree. There's alot of BS out there. Obviously "isolation" is not workling. "In the United States, it has been estimated that as many as one hospital patient in ten acquires a nosocomial infection, or 2 million patients a year. Estimates of the annua...

4. BSN's vs. Community college

   Zizka replied to cottoncandyclouds's topic in ADN/BSN

   Quick response: I'm an LPN after working in computers for 18 years I decided on a career change to a nurse. Couldn't afford to take 2/3 years out to RN and did the LPN in 13 months. I'm gonna go the quick route next and get RN with an associate degre...

5. TPN additives

   Zizka replied to Inquisitive one's topic in General Nursing

   I'm guessing the reasoning behind long acting substances not being given IV or IM is that they need to remain in the SC areas to be LONG acting.

6. Health Profession & Wacko's

   Zizka posted a topic in General Nursing

   Anybody else noticed how many "wacko's" seemed to be attracted to this line of work? I have some theories about this phenomena.

7. Most Nurses are Female: the pros and cons?

   Zizka replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

   I don't feel that women are the problem with the problems in the nursing profession either. I'm interested in both sides of the story not just the problems. It's also interesting to imagine, when you think about it, that nursing is probably one of th...

8. Angry mom treated rotten in ER today

   Zizka replied to Purple Princess's topic in Emergency

   So what did they do to heal you? Draw labs? Huh? What was it that made you sick and how did they fix it? That would help the orginal poster. Let's hope you just needed a course of iron pills?

9. Can it be aquired??

   Zizka replied to DST2RN's topic in General Nursing

   One easy trick is to breath through your mouth and not through the nose. Personally I can take anything related to humans but I cant look at anything related to "animals". It's kind of odd but any harm to animals makes me cry but with humans (which I...

10. Pain Management: The 5th Vital Sign

    Zizka replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

    I'm the same. I encourage our patients to treat their pain.

11. Insurance: The Urban Legend.

    Zizka posted a topic in General Nursing

    Once you're in a facility you'll be treated the same as everybody else. It's laughible to imagine that staff look at somebodies insurance and treat them any differently. I mean it's hard enough to get them to even know the patients name, let alone kn...

12. Pain Management: The 5th Vital Sign

    Zizka posted a topic in General Nursing

    It's a PITA (pain in the ass) but let's treat it! Any PRN work is chore. People use any excuse to put off PRN's. Let's not be judgemental or puritanical and use this as an excuse not to give pain medication because it means we have to do even more wo...

13. Stress! How do you releive it?

    Zizka replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    swimming is the greatest ever sport. (thats in caps for good reason) find a good sized pool and swim at least twice a week and hit the sauna afterwards.

14. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    Zizka replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    In the nursing care setting I think the opposite is true. It's human nature to not want to work and therefore providing people with pain management is usually just another chore. You have to give it out, chart it, etc. For PRN medications the nurse w...

15. Most Nurses are Female: the pros and cons?

    Zizka replied to Zizka's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the welcome. Feel like i've been lurking for a while although my posting count is low. Yes, I'm sure this subject has been brought up before. I'm not looking to start any fights (trolling) and I am curious about peoples feeling on the sub...