SharonH, RN

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  1. SharonH, RN

    Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    SharonH, RN replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

    As a nurse, you are expected to know medical terms and pronounce them correctly. That's your
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    Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    SharonH, RN replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

    LOL! You're wrong for
  3. SharonH, RN

    What Happened To The Nursing Profession?

    SharonH, RN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    Bingo!!!! Doc A doesn't want to be called for a bicarb of 43 on a patient with COPD but Doc B comes in screaming the next morning because no one called him when his patient's temp went up to 100F....
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    Nurses working harder than doctors?

    SharonH, RN replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

    I'm looking forward to the day when we are not constantly comparing ourselves to
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    Is working as a new grad in nursing home a bad career move?

    SharonH, RN replied to nursedani08's topic in General Nursing

    Did you know that Brian, the founder and owner of this site started his career in long-term care?
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    Nurses STOP telling me to be a RN ! PLEASE

    SharonH, RN replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    How thoughtless. LPN is in and of itself a perfectly valid career choice, not just a rung on the ladder to RN nor is it just something to do until you get your degree. Personally I couldn't wait to...
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    Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

    SharonH, RN replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Um,
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    Have noticed racist threads right here in the past two days!

    SharonH, RN replied to lpn2icu's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The threads aren't racist.......yet. Even with the comments about "quality", "submissive" and "not speaking the language" they aren't quite there yet. As I stated in one thread, they are looking for...
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    Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    SharonH, RN replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I'm sure it's different from school to school. Also the format may be different ie those classes may be integrated into another class or they may be taught as a seminar, etc. Bottom line(which we've...
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    Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

    SharonH, RN replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have never yelled at a co-worker.
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    Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

    SharonH, RN replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    With all due respect, TiredMD is being provocative. So let's make two suggestions: 1) People need to stop making deliberately provocative posts and 2) People shouldn't respond
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    Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    SharonH, RN replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Tired, I could go to all the trouble of looking up the curriculum of various schools of medicine but.......I don't feel like it. You can act like you don't believe me, I don't care. We both know that...
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    Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    SharonH, RN replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    of course ethics, statistics and management are not "fluff". that's ridiculous. besides, these courses are also taught in medical school. i guess it's only ridiculous if nurses are learning about
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    Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

    SharonH, RN replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In person: Walk away. On the phone: Hang up. I've done both. There is no point in dissecting the nurses' actions to try to figure out what he or she did wrong and thus may have "deserved" it. We are...
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    PDR.net does not recognize RNs as medical professionals

    SharonH, RN replied to jenny456's topic in General Nursing

    PDRs are really for prescribers; that is one of the reaons I never really relied on it as a resource when I was at the bedside. I don't think it's that they don't consider RNs as professionals per se,...
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    "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

    SharonH, RN replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I must agree. Honestly LPNs aren't going anywhere, I've heard this for my entire nursing career. Their opportunities are not limited either; I have never worked in any setting that did not utilize...
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    Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    SharonH, RN replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Oh my goodness no, I'm not kidding you. It is hard to distinguish between people in white coats when they don't introduce themselves properly. But if you introduce yourself, explain who you are and...
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    Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

    SharonH, RN replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    This is a bogus unfounded argument. Patients are very much able to discern who is their physician and who isn't. At my place of employment, PharmD's are in fact referred to as "Dr". They introduce...
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    I'm Confused???

    SharonH, RN replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    The answer to your question is discussed in a thread here: https://allnurses.com/nursing-news/american-recovery-reinvestment-372032.html As you can see, our colleagues advocated for the money. I...
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    Foreign nurses are taking/replacing nurses here in the USA?

    SharonH, RN replied to Di Deanna's topic in General Nursing

    I think that the idea that some huge influx of foreign nurses are stealing jobs away from Americans has already been very well debunked. However I would like to address the idea that foreign nurses...
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    Nurses are oppressed?! Do we oppress others?

    SharonH, RN replied to alex_hamilton18's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think of myself as oppressed, neither personally nor professionally. I know that doesn't answer your question but I had to get that out..... I'm curious, how could we oppress other...
  22. SharonH, RN

    Define critical thinking.

    SharonH, RN replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so much Leslie! I have a real problem with nurses who are task-oriented. I thought nursing had evolved beyond that? The problem is that critical thinking is not buzz word. It is the ability...
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    Moving to ATL soon ...... Questions

    SharonH, RN replied to TangoLima's topic in Georgia Nursing

    MSN programs: Mercer University Emory University GA State University Clayton State University Kennesaw State University State University of West Georgia (about 50 miles from downtown ATL, not so bad...
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    Lantus

    SharonH, RN replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Nursing

    #1 and #2 are correct. Why is the patient getting Lantus BID? Also, was she given sliding scale insulin? It's possible that she may have had too large a dose but we need more info
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    Medical termination of pregnancy.

    SharonH, RN replied to moodyred01's topic in Ob/Gyn

    RedCell is right. If you do not want to participate in a procedure that is being performed in order to save someone's life, then you can just switch