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  1. What is the scariest thing that has happened to you while working as a nurse?

    Riseupandnurse replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    This happened before I was a nurse. I was in nursing school and of course we all worked as nurse aides in the hospital on evenings. One of my classmates and I were the aides that night on our usual...

  2. Should student nurses be required to get the H1N1 vaccine

    Riseupandnurse replied to Heather Molesworth's topic in General Nursing

    Before this week I would have said no, shouldn't be mandatory. This week the 51 year old father of a nurse I know quite well came very close to dying from the flu, or to be more precise the pneumonia...

  3. Experienced Nurses:If you would have known then what you know now you would have....

    Riseupandnurse replied to NoeIssa's topic in General Nursing

    If someone is diaphoretic and clammy it's usually

  4. Any areas of nursing where the setting is more professional?

    Riseupandnurse replied to misplaced1's topic in General Nursing

    My first bachelor's degree was in sociology. Nurses act this way, IMHO, because they are an oppressed group. They are attacked from all sides and can't retaliate, reason, or get any relief from the...

  5. Anyone here bulk up to become a better nurse?

    Riseupandnurse replied to AcousticFoodie's topic in General Nursing

    Mikey: Stress causes cortisol release, which results in

  6. Nurse refuses to give or recieve shift report

    Riseupandnurse replied to dkweaver's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure JCAHO would be extremely interested in this situation, and the fact that your manager is allowing it to continue. I've had nurses say, "Oh, I had him yesterday. I don't need to hear...

  7. A song that fits this profession

    Riseupandnurse replied to mandykal's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital was going through one of its periodic "firing frenzies". Our head nurse, in a moment of unseemly candor, suggested the hospital might want to replace the morning prayer with the chorus...

  8. Pinning Ceremony Question

    Riseupandnurse replied to beebonnet's topic in General Nursing

    At my pinning many years ago three of us sang a song about how we'll always be friends. It was very

  9. Survey....working over.

    Riseupandnurse replied to KarmaComesAround's topic in General Nursing

    7 hours once. It really hurt. Almost always 1 1/2 to 2 hours. I hate

  10. Mandatory Flu Shots

    Riseupandnurse replied to Ghostmedic's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If we refuse the flu shot we get a reduction in merit

  11. Should I go to work tomorrow

    Riseupandnurse replied to bunnie004's topic in General Nursing

    I decided more than a decade ago that if I was scheduled to work and was sick etc. I would go straight to the hospital's ER and be seen by one of the drs. Let the hospital's own Drs. tell me I...

  12. HIPAA VIOLATION!

    Riseupandnurse replied to mehart2001's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with the above posters. You got him by the short hairs and yanked them good. Let him go. With the people you already reported him to he's toast. That should be

  13. Hourly Rounding

    Riseupandnurse replied to Erianne1074's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It is just totally unrealistic. And no, there is no "slack" for emergencies, as management feels that staffing is GREAT and so if we can't get to a room we could just delegate this to the nonexistent...

  14. how do per diem hrs work at your hospital?

    Riseupandnurse replied to adpiRN's topic in General Nursing

    We usually have to schedule "regular" shifts unless the hospital itself wants it done differently. As a per diem I work only 4 hour (hah hah of course, make that 6 hour) shifts. But signing on for...

  15. Disgusted!

    Riseupandnurse replied to rawrn's topic in General Nursing

    This is along the lines of "The grass is always greener..." I know plenty of RNs (in fact, the great majority of practicing RNs I know) who get excitement and action all the time and would KILL for...

  16. Need a little help with this outcome statement if you dont mind.

    Riseupandnurse replied to Idaho Murse's topic in General Nursing

    Pt.'s airway will remain patent as measured by O2 Saturation of over 90% q 4 hours and pt. will experience no episodes of dyspnea this

  17. Change of shift admissions

    Riseupandnurse replied to kittymom's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know why 75% of our ER patients show up on the floor at ahift change. It is a fact that they do. So it has to be something about the way ER is handling things. I think they are "cleaning...

  18. Flu shot policy at your hospital....(m)

    Riseupandnurse replied to pink2blue1's topic in General Nursing

    I agree; I don't see the benefit of young children running around the hospital unless a grandparent etc. is actually dying and they need to say goodbye. I have been told that it is too early for the...

  19. Family members and Visitors telling me HOW to do my job!!!

    Riseupandnurse replied to abbaking's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh how I long for the days when we had visiting hours. You could get the care done, bond with the patient, and then have some sweetness and light left over for the visiting

  20. Instructor Problems

    Riseupandnurse replied to ms.ludes's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto to wht MRazFan said. My guess is that your instructor was reacting just as a last straw to things that may have happened the previous semester or even earlier. There is an unfortunate tendency...

  21. Nursing instructor putting student through embarassment and singles out

    Riseupandnurse replied to mjacobs's topic in General Students

    No e-mails. That's just cowardly. You should make an appointment in person to talk to the instructor, at the most with one other person. Be respectful and concentrate on how the situation makes you...

  22. Whats a good online RN-BSN program?

    Riseupandnurse replied to Misty1's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Southeast Missouri State University. Great school, wonderful

  23. What would you change about Nursing to make it better?

    Riseupandnurse replied to RNman09's topic in General Nursing

    Management nurses should have to do one shift every two weeks. It would stop some of this BS like rounding and bar coding. Get the JCAHO off everyone's backs. Get real. If we can't use a restraint...

  24. Nobody answers the floor phones

    Riseupandnurse replied to retiredlady's topic in General Nursing

    Phone calls like these are the bane of my existence. I have to go down a VERY long hall to check the chart to see if the caller is on the HIPPA list and I never, never actually have a spare minute....

  25. What 's your thoughts

    Riseupandnurse replied to KDiAnneRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that you shouldn't make a huge deal out of this. I have been on the short end of this deal more than once because I stated a preference for something and the other person stated a...