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1. December 2016 Top 8 Captions Contest - Select $100 Winner

   prunejuice&BPs replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   Man "You look like you have lost your edge". Woman "Ground down by hours of wonderful patients demanding to be first in line for their pain meds, baths, questions answered, doctor called..." But just give me 8 hours of sleep and I'll be sharp as an a...

2. Shame on you ANCC : Psych CNS: Don't precept Psych NP's

   prunejuice&BPs replied to dmarie82's topic in CNS

   In the last decade I was attempting to get my CNS and this conflict about the role of CNS and how it was going to be recognized by all entities came to the surface. This caused me to change to an Geriatric NP program because I didn't want to work for...

3. Has pain scale contributed to opiate problem?

   prunejuice&BPs replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I agree, Someone needs to rethink and reinvent the pain scale. There are physical indicators that should be included in the pain assessment. I also feel that there should be a variety of things that the nurse can chose from for pain and the degree of...

4. 10 year old died after I performed CPR

   prunejuice&BPs replied to MjHudd's topic in General Nursing

   You did your best to help the situation. His death is not your fault. If the family did not request a autopsy they have accepted the fact that his heart was the cause of death. I am sure they understand that you did your best under the situation. Se...

5. Am I wrong from refusing to help a friend?

   prunejuice&BPs replied to Neywel120's topic in General Students

   Sounds bogus. I wonder why she thinks you can help her with her major since it is totally different than yours. There is nothing easy about nursing studies believe me as one person who lugged my books around with me everywhere I went even on vacatio...

6. What Nurses really Want to Say When They Chart

   prunejuice&BPs replied to SICUshortCait's topic in General Nursing

   "Patient displaying agitation, running around the unit, using expletives turning on all the faucets and flushing all the commodes. Patient tackled another patient and brought him down to the floor. Physician notified, order placed for oral Haldol and...

7. Theft at work?

   prunejuice&BPs replied to nifty_n's topic in Professionalism

   Yes things will disappear but don't just blame your fellow nurses. The docs/residents will walk off with your stethoscope in a minute. Hospitals used to supply stethoscopes to everyone but now that is not the case. When they did they had to replace t...

8. Falsely accused of med diversion

   prunejuice&BPs replied to kindia's topic in General Nursing

   Not a good idea to pre-pour narcs especially. Always the chance that you can get them mixed up and give to someone else. Believe me I know about bad workplace experiences. Maybe you need to find a new workplace with better staffing. You don't want to...

9. What do YOU do with your old scrubs?

   prunejuice&BPs replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   ]I have so many slightly used uniforms I can count them. I have uniforms for the seasons, for the holidays and just because I liked them. I could use a suggestion or 2. What about nurses in some of the under served countries does anybody have a cha...

10. Most shocking thing you've seen another nurse do?

    prunejuice&BPs replied to SuzieVN's topic in Relations

    Wow! this sounds like a script out of a bad movie are you kidding???