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  1. What's your favorite type of patient?

    burn out replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Vented and sedated with lots of drips espe. in septic shock is always a challenge and one you can see if you made a difference in quickly...usually 72

  2. Do you think nursing is physically unhealthy?

    burn out replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    There are different kinds of stresses--there is good stress and bad stress- I don't necessarily see nursing as a bad stress. In fact after my 4 days off babysitting my 1 year old granddaughter I am...

  3. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

    burn out replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    After close introspection I realize I am into nursing because of the control(I guess I am a control freak). What other job can you control someone elses pain, I can control their heart rate, blood...

  4. IV Lopressor on the med/surg ward?

    burn out replied to country bumkin's topic in General Nursing

    I do not think you all have enough respect for Lopressor. I work ICU and give lopressor frequently and monitor them very closely while giving it, both the blood pressure but more importantly the...

  5. Warning: Long...Need to bounce something off you guys re: administrative occurance.

    burn out replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think you were in a difficult situtation and the decisions you made were based on what you thought were true and just , in the end you are the one that has to live with the decisions you make and...

  6. Some Questions

    burn out replied to greenr06's topic in General Nursing

    Honey if all you think RN s do is write in charts then you would not like nursing. Being an RN involves everything plus charting. If you would ask a visitor what I did they would say, sit at the...

  7. Cpd???

    burn out replied to nurse79's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am not an OB/LD nurse and I have a world of respect for them but I can tell you as a first time mother I only labored for 12 hours with pit and pushed for 4 hours when they decided cpd and did the c...

  8. If you won the lottery, would you still do your job?

    burn out replied to SK-222's topic in General Nursing

    And the families of the people you are caring for will sue you at a drop of a hat because they know you have money. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, everyone wants in on the

  9. If you won the lottery, would you still do your job?

    burn out replied to SK-222's topic in General Nursing

    I have taken care of a guy that won 365million in the lottery and he had no privacy. We would have to run people out of the unit at visiting times that didn't even know him, begging for money. Last...

  10. Florence against men

    burn out replied to MountainMan's topic in General Nursing

    I don't get it. If Florence was black or a male would her works have been greater or less? Does a rose by any other name not smell just as sweet? Why do so many have a problem with the fact that she...

  11. Interesting facts and observations.

    burn out replied to Ekklesia's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I don't think you quite get it..a woman that doesn't a male nurse to treat her probably doesn't want that because he is a male nothing to do with him personnally or professionally. What about the...

  12. Interesting facts and observations.

    burn out replied to Ekklesia's topic in Male Nursing Students

    It is personal because it is gender discrimination. No matter how you cut it. No it is personal because we are talking about one individual patient and their personal body parts..please don't confuse...

  13. SENIOR IN NURSING SCHOOL FACING HUGE PROBLEM...please help

    burn out replied to JNogueira95's topic in General Nursing

    Hey you have to survive this world and I think you should use all the resources available to you..use the representatives if you have to..then if that dosen't work you can do it

  14. Calling All Nurses.....How did you......

    burn out replied to Katydidit34's topic in General Nursing

    When I graduated from nursing school I always thought I wanted to go into long term care for elderly patients and I never wanted to work in SICU..but you know the old saying... never say never...20...

  15. backstabbers, 2-faced coworkers

    burn out replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    You have to hang tough and be confident in yourself and what you are doing. You can't be intimidated by these people and the best way that I have found to handle them and get their attention is to...

  16. Florence against men

    burn out replied to MountainMan's topic in General Nursing

    I think Flo was a woman ahead of her times. I think she saw nursing as a profession that was needed then and in the future and she wanted it to be a way that women could have a choice in their lives....

  17. What is your weakness?

    burn out replied to StrwbryblndRN's topic in General Nursing

    patients with lice..I start itching before they even hit the unit..I itch just thinking about it..(is that one

  18. For those of you who are feeling down lately...

    burn out replied to DesertRain's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    thanks for the beautiful poem..you may be a newbie but who says you can't teach an oldie a thing or

  19. Tell us what was your first day as a CNA like...?

    burn out replied to DeeDee143's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It was one of my first jobs just out of high school..my first day as a CNA was the first day I saw a real man

  20. What is your weakness?

    burn out replied to StrwbryblndRN's topic in General Nursing

    It is not so much the poop but when someone goes to collect a stool specimen and they use a spoon to scoop it up with, or if someone has a huge diarrhea stool and they use a yankur to suck it up. I...

  21. Theme of the day....

    burn out replied to TouchstoneRN's topic in Emergency

    We play name that rhythm and take bets on calling it..when the cardilogist comes it what ever he rules determines who wins. Yesterday we had a tricky one..it was a regular rhythm ventricular rate...

  22. Have you ever done CPR off duty?

    burn out replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    Yes the actions were pretty natural but I have been an ICU nurse for 20 years and have been a part of many codes and taken care of many critically ill patients and I get bitter because I was so...

  23. Have you ever done CPR off duty?

    burn out replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I had to do cpr on my own mother. I had gone to her apartment as usual in the morning but she was still in bed and said she wasn't feeling good, she had chest pain and back pain all night and had...

  24. DNRs and ACLS

    burn out replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work the docs day that DNR does not mean do not treat. We had a patient one time come in tor sades (sp) and we shocked him every 5-10 minutes for 2 days-honestly could not leave his bedside...

  25. Signing off orders

    burn out replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    As far as I am concerned if you signed it then it is your responsiblity if it was or was not done if there is any problem it will come back to you. So say a charge nurse signs off for a UA and the cna...