SharonH, RN

I would never relax my hair for a job interview. Get the braids and wear them in a professional looking bun. If that is offensive to your potential employer, it is probably best you find out ahead of time. Also, I speak from experience; I have been natural for 12 yeas now and I have worn every natural hairstyle you can think of including full afro.

Oh geeeeeeeeeez...................

From the article: Personally I don't usually get the flu shot because I question its value for young, healthy people. Most years I don't take it, but one year I did and became ill within a couple of weeks. While I know I didn't get sick from the vaccine, what good did it do? I've never had the flu and were I to ever get sick, I have no problem staying home and not exposing others. I have a real problem with this guy claiming that nurses do not put patient safety first.

I wouldn't be insulted; I'd be embarassed that they had to ask me to do so in the first place.

I agree with you Leslie, but I would go so far as to say that even in a non-management position a professional person should wear their teeth. It is the societal norm. I have never worked with a nurse who did not have teeth. The only time I have encountered people in the workplace without them, they always work in positions like housekeeping or the kitchen and even that's rare. My grandmother worked in the laundry at a nursing home and she wouldn't have been caught dead out of the house without her dentures.

I'm frankly surprised that you were able to get hired at all without any teeth. Lack of teeth is not something I associate with a professional appearance, nothin personal. You should get your dentures re-fitted.

Thank you! A physician order to flush an INT, good grief, never heard of such a thing.

I've worked with many, many professionals from other countries and I can count on one hand the number of them I have had difficulty understanding. It happens but it's rare. The fact that they have had a string of nurses they could not understand is.......odd. Maybe it's as Sandra Dee explained to Bobby Darin: "People hear what they see". You betcha Sandra.

They didn't dumb it down, they told him what it was about but he tuned them out. See the OP: I bet he wasn't the only one rolling his eyes at the boring details so they reduced it to a corny mnemonic. Oh well..........

You're welcome. It's funny but when I responded, neither you nor your opinion was even considered. Go figure. I was sharing MY opinion of the tone around her and I will continue to call it as I see it. And I cheerfully remain available when you need help knowing what to think......you're welcome.

Congratulations!

Heh-heh, of course there are. I have argued that very point many times on this board. buuuuuuuttttt, many of our colleagues simply do not concur. I was merely trying to save OP some trouble and letting him/her know how it is around here.......

It'll never work, nurses on this board are vehemently opposed to creating their own plan and following through, they only want to follow doctor's orders. Sorry.........

Yes I have so I speak from experience. As for matching up patient needs, as I stated before HH nurses need solid assessment skills and the ability to problem-solve that comes with experience. Recently I have been seeing some very poor quality from HH, so you have provided another piece to the puzzle. Just today, I had to follow-up on a patient with HH in the home who has not had her medications reconciled from her hospitalization 1 month ago including a PO antifungal that her husband never bothered to fill because the hubby didn't understand why it was needed. Where was the HH nurse in all of this?

No way. Source?