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Greetings All Nurses, I just had a telephone interview with 2 nurse managers in WI for a hospital posiotion. Wow, what a difference a few states and a Nurse Practice Act makes! In Wi and there hospital an IV certification course is not required and L...

Greetings All Nurses, I have asked several questions and now I have an other one. These excerpts are from an article originally http://www.arhp.org/clinical/greatdebate.htm Titled: This Doctor is advocating a reduction in a standard of care th...

This one will hurt if you are a sympathetic person, I observed an Student Nursing Assitant do this! We were swampped and short staffed one night on second shift and being the super nurse I am I volunteered to pass all PO and scheduled meds (No PRN's)...

Greetings All Nurses, I posted this to ask you what is your best service or save you have done for a clients welfare. It can be a case that always stand out in your mind as a positive thing you did for a client. I know I have several but there is thi...

Greetings and Salutations All Nurses, I am having one of those delmias where I am sort of offended for being a Pro_Choice supporter and a former nurse at a free standing Womens Center (Abortion Clinic). I am not posting this there, to hear why it is ...

Greetings, I am a recovering addict person (over a year) who is also a Nurse (Licensed for the past 13 years). My drug of chioce is not usually in a drug cart and even if it was (I have had to sign for it before) I would refuse to divert it (I value ...

Ackermann-Liebrich U et al. Home versus hospital deliveries: follow up study of matched pairs for procedures and outcomes. BMJ, 1996;313: 1313-1318. During delivery the home birth group needed significantly less medication and fewer interventions whe...

How is this possible in this day and age during a major Nursing Crisis? I would like to hear more about this subject, the information I have about the ANA is 12 years old and when I applied for membership and it was denied becuase I was not a real ...

Greetings All Nurses, This is not specific to LPN's except one part of it is for OHIO LPN's. I got my "Momentum" The Ohio Board of Nursing Newsletter today, in it there are new reg.s for LPN's with IV therapy cert. Starting in the renewal of 2004 The...

Greetings, I am a Nurse and a vet. (USN) I was at one of the oldest VA centers (Dayton, Ohio) a few months ago and asked about employment I was told that there is a system wide hiring freeze for the VA, is this still in effect?

From: http://www.advanceforlpns.com/common/Editorial/Editorial.aspx?CC=15489 Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, may have suffered from a bipolar disorder, stated Dr. Kathy Wisner, a professor of psychiatry at ...

Greetings All Nurses, In a recent article I read some very disturbing and misleading text. I would appreciate your interests in this matter. It is public awareness news items like this that sets back VBAC as an birthing option for women. Here is the ...

Greetings, I feel like I made a big error in my career path years ago and now I am stuck being an agency nurse. I want to have some stability and a regular budgetable paycheck each week. In addition I do not like working with Geriatric clients and I ...

No Mid-Wife means "with women" litterally!

My preception of childbirth from our experience as a birthing couple is tainted since it is from the spouses prespective and in a hospital 19 and 16 years ago. Both were failure to progress births and all the interventions that occur with that DX wer...

Greetings, Yes those buses still run so do the diesel ones too. The complex looks more like a military base than a VA hospital complete with 2 gates, barracks, Dorms, and a Police Force that cruises the complex. Yes the main building is still standin...

Greetings Everyone, Its been awhile since I posted, but here it goes. The Doc who discovered the virus passed away this past week from SARS! I am sure he was very cautious and took all the precautions at his disposal in a oriental country (Thailand o...

Do you like Agency/ staffing Nursing and would you switch back to being on staff:confused: Please tell us why if you like it or hate it!

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FUNNY BOOBS Here's something funny IMHO Perfect breasts (o)(o) Fake silicone breasts ( + )( + ) Perky breasts (*)(*) Big nipple breasts (@)(@) A cups o o D cups { O }{ O } Wonder bra breasts (oYo) Cold breasts ( ^ )( ^ ) Lopsided breasts ...

Excuse me but in the state I work I am accountable and responsible for my actions unless I was delegated a nursing task outside my scope of practice as a LPN by a RN. This scope of practice is largley directed by the institutions policies and not the...

Entry level? I think of entry level to nursing as a Nursing Assistant. As a LPN who will also oneday go back to school I must tell you it is not the increase in pay that lures me there. It is the doors that open with a RN compared to a LPN. I hate wo...

Bah, i remember those days and man I would make drug cards for my assigned clients when the instructor would change assignments upon my arrival I hated when that happened, As far as asking questions about the drugs action on a cellular level, maybe...

As a Nurse, how could i disagree that Nurses are the best! LOL

Greetings my fellow NURSES, I am VERY:devil: OFFENDED at this comment made by this guy about gender roles! I am a MALE Nurse and proud of it. Where is he coming from the 19th century? Apparently a Nurse is for emptying bed pans and Doctors save live...