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  1. Wow!

    CCU NRS replied to coffeejavule's topic in General Nursing

    I am not from Iowa so I am not sure what some of those things are, but I digress what I would liek to ask If you would like to indulge my curiosity is a two part question. Here goes 1. Do you now or...

  2. Should nurses be allowed to strike?

    CCU NRS replied to LydiaGreen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I mean there really is no way they could ever take away the right to strike. I mean if you look at history if a large group of people make a decsision they could do like NY police did a decdae ago and...

  3. Now Ive heard it all!!!

    CCU NRS replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

    I work CCU and we sometimes have the exact oposite problem. We will be told by bed assignments that they need the bed, in our unit the Charge Nurse decides which bed in order to match with the nurses....

  4. nursing school

    CCU NRS replied to anjie43's topic in General Nursing

    What Is AA

  5. Hepatitis C

    CCU NRS replied to Still Waters's topic in General Nursing

    I put it on favorites. My wife is a GI specialist and may be interested to puruse and chat. It basically her teaching specialty. She works in a practice with 14 GI specialist and she does the brunt to...

  6. Racial discrimination in Nursing....

    CCU NRS replied to Barbie38's topic in General Nursing

    i noticed that you made several posts and although there was disagreement I never saw anyone post that you were not entitiled to your own opinion. This is the type of issue that really fires people up...

  7. Abuse

    CCU NRS posted a topic in General Nursing

    Case

  8. What happens to your integrity when you go into management?

    CCU NRS replied to olympiad27's topic in Nurse Management

    Yeah I can see that. I never really heard about bonuses in my area but I see all of the S/S you mention. Dig your sig

  9. nurse appreciation gift

    CCU NRS replied to hmccartn's topic in General Nursing

    My classmates and I wanted to do soomething different. Food and coffee and fruit are all wonderful and Nurse do liek to eat but, I cma up with the idea to Make a plaque for then nurses station. I...

  10. Racial discrimination in Nursing....

    CCU NRS replied to Barbie38's topic in General Nursing

    Having down time does not mean you are providing poor care. Not sure if I did the quote right. But I agre with not being able to tell good nursing from bad nursing by amount of time free. I your...

  11. US nursing student looking to work in London

    CCU NRS replied to jellie22's topic in General Nursing

    I am just curious is there some reason you are going across the pond immediately? I would think being a new nurse is hard enoug without trying to learn it in a different country as well being new....

  12. What Freaks You Out?

    CCU NRS replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if anyone else said this because by the time I am looking you have already had 519 posts, wow! NE way I personally can take anything but what bothers me the most is Charcoal emesis or...

  13. What happens to your integrity when you go into management?

    CCU NRS replied to olympiad27's topic in Nurse Management

    They all wanna be everything to everybody and when it all comes down the staff nurses are at the bottom of the totem pole. I really believe that the old addage those can't do teach is sort in action...

  14. Having a difficult time .

    CCU NRS replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I carried a small legal pad and wrote everything down, assignments, due dates, test dates, clinical times, everything I wanted to be sure not to

  15. Nursing Politics and Activism

    CCU NRS replied to Soonurse1's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I honestly don't know any nurses that do belong to the organizations. I do believe they are a good practice in thoery and I am glad that there are some nurses thatcan find time to devote to these...

  16. Femstops

    CCU NRS replied to zambezi's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    robred wrote We leave it on until hemostasis has been achieved....inflate 10-20 mm Hg above the pt's SBP initally, remove the sheath (pressure is at 60-80 mm Hg at sheath removal), and maintain that...

  17. IV Capatibilities

    CCU NRS replied to Scis's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Mayhap if the patient is needing Lidocaine and Dopamine he is beyond the help of a single antibiotic. I did not read all of the replies but these two drugs are at odds with each other. But if the...

  18. Not me!

    CCU NRS replied to Town & Country's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That is terribly scary news! It is no wonder they are getting away with the horrors that we all hear about. I was not aware that LTC did not have to subumit to

  19. Sickout leaves Ohio hospital short

    CCU NRS replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Wow! Hey thanks for posting the link to the story I enjoyed it. I guess they should figure out what they need to do for retention on a hospital wide basis. I feel the same way where I am currently...

  20. how did you become a nurse?

    CCU NRS replied to kahoro's topic in General Nursing

    It was a combonation of things for me. I took care of a quadriplegic male that just a few years younger than I was as my high school job and continued for five years after high school. It all started...

  21. Psychic patient

    CCU NRS replied to TnValCNA's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it would really all come down to where you stand on the entire subject. You say you are religious but does that mean you do or don't believe in spirits? I personally feel that we do not just...

  22. Sent home from Clinical

    CCU NRS replied to JuicyJem's topic in General Nursing

    You have already recieved many good responses. Purple is right go in with your notes if you have to and make your points in clear mature manner. Explain that this is not the first incident you have...

  23. Not me!

    CCU NRS replied to Town & Country's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Are you saying you are there completly alone? I mean there is no one else in the building? Is this LTC or a Hospital or what? Number one I don't believe by law you can be left alone because BLS and...

  24. Walking Rounds/Report

    CCU NRS posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am curious to know how everybody feels about walking report? They are starting walking rounds or room to room report where I am working on Sep. 1. I DO NOT think it will be confidential or prudent....

  25. Is nursing a "calling"

    CCU NRS replied to fiestynurse's topic in Nursing Career

    This is a very Intriguing question. I will tell you my story and maybe provide an entirely new point of view. I am an Lpn working CCU for an agency although I have been working with the same Hospital...