Buddy Christ

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   When You Realize You Are Replaceable

   Buddy Christ replied to Guest1189140's topic in Nursing Career

   You said it yourself, your job includes unpredictable things and being replaceable. The truth is you were always replaceable, always expendable to an employer seeking to find better/cheaper employees....
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   Giving 2000ml/hr Fluids

   Buddy Christ replied to Nikki Smith's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Pumping someone full of two liters an hour just sounds like a relatively extreme situation, though I'm sure this is common. At the *** where I work this is unheard of; we run the pumps to max if...
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   Domestic Violence Screening

   Buddy Christ replied to Nurse Mack's topic in Patient Education

   A pharmacy does seem like an inappropriate place to be asking domestic violence questions, but those questions do get asked anyway. At some point the nurse is going to have to address those questions....
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   Giving 2000ml/hr Fluids

   Buddy Christ replied to Nikki Smith's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   2000ml/hr? That's an extreme situation and in such a situation I would use the pump instead of gravity so you can be sure the patient is getting exactly that amount of fluids. Scanning things would be...
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   BULLYING at work as Usual

   Buddy Christ replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

   If your boss denies you time off then just call in sick like everyone else. If she doesn't like it then she can cry about it. Odds are pretty low they'll fire you over being sick unless you've already...
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   CNN: Abortion Performed on Wrong Woman

   Buddy Christ replied to Alex_RN's topic in Nursing News

   Their cultural differences apparently include aborting the wrong
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   Fainting Nursing Student

   Buddy Christ replied to NS94's topic in General Nursing

   Does watching videos of similar experiences evoke the same feelings and provoke feeling faint? Maybe you can watch a bunch of these in your private time and become desensitized to the experience. At...
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   Non compliance?

   Buddy Christ replied to Glycerine82's topic in Patient Education

   Don't know why a nurse would try to be these patients' mothers. Grown adults have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies, and we are essentially just doing damage control and keeping...
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   I was slapped by a patient

   Buddy Christ replied to FNPStudentLife's topic in General Nursing

   Why did he do that? "Not being himself" isn't really motivation for assault. Sorry if this was already answered previously in the thread, I didn't see any answers to
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    If not nursing then what?

    Buddy Christ replied to SheriffLauren's topic in General Nursing

    carpenter
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    Is this discrimination?

    Buddy Christ replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    whether or not its discrimination is irrelevant what you should be planning is what to do if they turn down the raise. Then youre gonna ask "is it moral or immoral to repeal this refusal on the...
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    Swastikas & Nursing | Refusing care based upon moral objection?

    Buddy Christ replied to guest042302019's topic in General Nursing

    As long as they don't worship Satan I'm
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    If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    Buddy Christ replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in General Nursing

    Panhandler
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    Which is it? Coolest and most glamorous nursing jobs

    Buddy Christ replied to Flyboy17's topic in General Nursing

    being a CNA at an understaffed nursing
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    Books to give to favorite patients in NICU

    Buddy Christ replied to megelizabeth1992's topic in General Nursing

    my runner-up was Sun Tzu's The Art of