jimthorp

jimthorp

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  1. Stethescope Comparison

    I bought a cheap Sprague for school and used it for almost a year on the job. I found some people's BP difficult to auscultate and quiet lungs sounds difficult as well. I bought a Littmann Classic II...
  2. LPN student with 2 past DWAI's

    That should have been done to get into school. The OP didn't learn her lesson the first time and did it again. Hopefully the lesson has been learned
  3. Shocked at Surgery

    LOL. I've seen a myringotomy with tubes (surgeon let me watch through the binocular microscope during the procedure), adenoidectomy, lap chole, meniscectomy, C-section, and WIPPLE procedure (got to...
  4. LPN student with 2 past DWAI's

    Why even bring it
  5. Clogs while nursing

    I don't recommend wearing running shoes if you are not running. They are designed for the mechanics of running. Instead, choose a cross trainer or walking
  6. Needle sticks

    Once, just before I gave an insulin injection. Went back and got a new syringe and
  7. Why is charting so difficult and time consuming?

    Blame it on our litigious society. I chart by
  8. Premployment drug screen

    Lab
  9. Where were u 9/11/01?

    At work in my previous career in R&D. Not much work got accomplished that day. I was at the top of one of them 8 months earlier and rode past ground zero on my bicyle the next May...quite an eery...
  10. Shoes with Wheels! Would you want to try them?

    I skate too, pretty much year round as long as the roads are not snow or ice covered. My first experience was at a grocery store. I did a double take as this youg boy was traversing across the floor...
  11. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    This is absurd and not representative of the real world. Garlic breath, don't get me started with that
  12. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    i
  13. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    Yep, had to wear a uniform, do a pee test, criminal background check, and child abuse background
  14. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    Is it an infraction of a written rule? That has not yet been established by the OP. In school I was provided with a set of rules (WRITTEN) for conduct during clinicals. Interestingly, smelling like...
  15. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    I apologize. I didn't realize that's what you were refering
  16. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    Come on Marie, don't compare apples to oranges. Attire is not the same as
  17. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    This is a rather dictatorial view. Even if there is a rule against smoking during clinicals, that rule does not apply to traveling to or from the clinical site, as another poster suggested is "the...
  18. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    My school also has a smoking policy but it is not more restrictive for nursing students than for the rest of the student body and rightly
  19. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    I'd be interested in these studies. Could you point the
  20. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    I do and thus my reponses. If we allow college instructors to continue to abuse their authority and make up their own rules to suit their own biases, what is to prevent one from coming along who has a...
  21. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    !!!???
  22. Can I practice with married name?

    Same in PA. You have 10 days to do
  23. Got someone mad at me

    Incorrect! She was a customer in the ER not on the clock in the
  24. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    I have. My ex-wife quit, or so I thought until I found a pack of butts in the glove compartment of her car. As I had previously stopped smoking I could smell it rather easily. She hid it very
  25. Out of nursing program cause i am smoker!!!

    AGAIN, this has not been established. Rules governing the clinical site or school grounds DO NOT extend beyond them. No institution has the authority to govern a legal act beyond the boundaries of...