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  1. Anyone take out $50,000 per year to live?

    burn out replied to ellarose's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I did that and it back fired on me. I have never been one to quit anything in my life but anesthesia got the best of me. First whether you get loans or stipends you are going to be in hock when you...

  2. Would nurses support MA licensure?

    burn out replied to LorraineCNA's topic in General Nursing

    I think one thing that nurses are concerned with is that our job is trying to be picked away by lower paying non-licensed personnell i.e. paramedics trying to get into the hospital by getting jobs...

  3. Switching career moves...slightly

    burn out replied to cltcmusk08's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes our path in life does not take us where we think we want to go and then we realize that we are right were we are suppose to be. I never wanted to be a nurse when I was starting out in...

  4. I feel so bad- anyone else ever done this?

    burn out replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I have had this happen to me and seen it happen to others quite frequently and almost always the patient has been on coumadin. I hope one of the tubes you collected was blue for a

  5. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    burn out replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Probably not the weirdst but the most annoying call light ring is from the 400-500 pound beached whale that says "Pull me up". I have to keep from biting my tongue and saying "The LORD helps those...

  6. Lunch Break

    burn out replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

    You can't take care of someone elses needs unless your own needs are met first. Being hypoglycemic I can not be adequately caring for anyone, that is why all of us on my unit make breakfast and lunch...

  7. cleaning poop

    burn out replied to tprashad's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses are not a special breed that have dna to stomach poop any more than the rest of the population. It still makes me sick-mostly the smell of it - but you just have to clench your teeth and hold...

  8. What do you think of using paramedics for nursing shortage

    burn out replied to sweetpooty's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Just to play devil's advocate then I'll stop. Putting a paramedic in a nurses role is like putting a auto mechanic designing

  9. What do you think of using paramedics for nursing shortage

    burn out replied to sweetpooty's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    To whose advantage is it that paramedics get off the street and into the hospital faster? Certainly not to the patients on a Med-Surg unit,I don't think that paramedics are really taught how to tcdb...

  10. Bad Habits Nurses Develop

    burn out replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in General Nursing

    believe it or not but even back in the 80's we were taught not to use gloves except for like cleaning up a patient. To this day I am more likely to stick myself with gloves on while starting an iv...

  11. Dilemma with Narcotic Med Count

    burn out replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Nursing

    I love our accudose machine...we never have to count

  12. Pushing IV Lopressor

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

    that is what my supervisor said too. This has given me a whole new respect for lopressor. Thanks for all the info and advice, I just didn't know for sure if I had screwed it up somehow or missed...

  13. Lovenox Injections: SC, But Where?

    burn out replied to lmz's topic in Patient Medications

    I guess we know how it got ist's name now- makes more sense than love an

  14. Silent birth? Anyone see one?

    burn out replied to Sis123's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I love your sense of humor.. I was wonderng what kind of drugs Katie received to keep her mouth shut,I know a few drunks in ER we might want to use it

  15. An ethical question.

    burn out replied to workingforskies's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry you have to work someone that you do not get get along with, that happens alot and is a situation most of us will or have found ourselves in at least once in our lives. However, do not let...

  16. PLEASE HELP! What should I do???

    burn out replied to HomeofLove4Him's topic in General Nursing

    I know it may sound stupid but do you not have any family that can help you out? I know my mom has always watched my kids and I have never paid a penny for any daycare or sitter. By the way who ever...

  17. What do you think of using paramedics for nursing shortage

    burn out replied to sweetpooty's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I could see maybe using them in some kind of tech. role but not nursing. They may be skilled for in the field situations but once a patient arrives to the hospital it is a whole new ballgame with a...

  18. choosing a specialty and personality type?

    burn out replied to TRousse's topic in Nursing Career

    iNFj- I am right were I need to be. This explains why I stay wher I am and never put in for that desk job-because I really don't want it. I am the counselor just like Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter...

  19. Schools in AL

    burn out replied to 2bnurseguy_2005's topic in Alabama Nursing

    I moved from West VIrginia to Alabama and graduated from University of ALabama in Huntsville (20 years ago). What I see on their website is that they are considered one of the best school in the...

  20. ortho evra patch

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

    one the nurses at the hospitalI work at had just completed her masters when she had a massive stroke and died, everyone thought it was from the stress but others say it was because of birth control...

  21. Does it have to be such a hostile environment?

    burn out replied to APP's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how many times the op plans on changing careers in their life time I am just saying that being a staff nurse is not going to be an easy thing and that is where most of us do start out....

  22. What W.Virginia towns/cities do you recommend working in and why?

    burn out replied to fd5151's topic in General Nursing

    Are you are referring to the state of West Virginia and not the western part of Virginia? The capital of the state of West Virginia is Charleston, while it has the trauma center, cardiac center,...

  23. WHY are nurses so catty??

    burn out replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's not argueing or discussing, it's being "catty". (What is catty anyway, would someone please

  24. nursing a calling?

    burn out replied to hTx87's topic in General Nursing

    When I was younger I said I would never be a nurse. Never say never.. If it was a calling I didn't hear the phone ring.. Nursing is whatever you want it to be and make it to

  25. What did you learn today as a nurse?

    burn out replied to minnib's topic in General Nursing

    nope ICU. But this actually happened to one of my 16 year old daughters classmates. A day later another one of her classmates died from scraping the coating off of extended release morphine tabs and...