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  1. Breastfeeding at 2 1/2 years???

    mom23RN replied to Murse901's topic in General Nursing

    Oh... and I just wanted to add... questioning any mothers parenting skills??? Kinda like walking into the lions den with 2 t-bones strapped to your butt.

  2. Breastfeeding at 2 1/2 years???

    mom23RN replied to Murse901's topic in General Nursing

    My third son is still nursing at almost 2 1/2. I truly NEVER in my life thought I would EVER nurse a toddler. The thought of it gave me the willies (true), but somehow it just progressed. I always...

  3. New ER Nurse

    mom23RN replied to MikeyBSN's topic in Emergency

    :chuckle:rotfl::chair: *snort* So

  4. This cannot be ethical!

    mom23RN replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    I understand the "reasoning" but unless you have my consent you shouldn't be doing anything to MY child. I refused an autopsy for the reasons that my son had been through enough and I didn't want his...

  5. This cannot be ethical!

    mom23RN replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    In cases of abortion the child becomes an emanciptaed minor upon conception. Not quite the same as practicing intubations on my dead baby. I have worked in an ER for several years and this was NEVER...

  6. maternity leave -- how long?

    mom23RN replied to amyrae76's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going on 5 years now!!!! (well that IS unpaid leave!!!) :imbar When I first had my daughter I was going to take the family medical leave of 3 months but since you have just started you may not be...

  7. This cannot be ethical!

    mom23RN replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    As someone who has lost a child (not to stillbirth but very young) I would be horrified if someone did that to my child. I'm not sue crazy, but had I EVER found out that someone had done that I would...

  8. How Do You Keep Them From Breaking Your Heart?

    mom23RN replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    As the mother of a peds patient a while ago I WANT a nurse that is attatched to my child. I want somoeone who cares deeply for my child. I also want someone who cares deeply when something happens...

  9. The Magic of Touch: What's Happened to the PM Care Backrub?

    mom23RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked ER and one night I didn't have a heavy load and had a guy having an MI. He was in so much distress. We were waiting for the cath lab to be ready and he had already had enough morphine to...

  10. Message from a CNA

    mom23RN replied to aspentree13's topic in General Nursing

    I have always said (and I really SAY it) that CNAs should make more than nurses. They have the hardest job of almost anyone I know and they don't make squat. I know that nurses have a hard job as...

  11. Doctor/Nurse relationships

    mom23RN replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    Where I worked it was "departemental". The cardiologists were jerks, as were the infectous disease and most of the surgeons. I worked in ER and the ER docs were

  12. Is It Worth It?

    mom23RN replied to Templar1961's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think I would. I mean it's nice to have something to "fall back on" but I'm not even in the nursing field anymore. I am doing something that my nursing degree helps with, but I only worked...

  13. Funnies/scariest thing to ever happen to you in the ED??

    mom23RN replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

    :uhoh21: whoah!!!!!!!! i was reading that thinking "well, it really couldn't hurt much rectally". but im?????? :imbar

  14. Physician bullying/sarcastic comments to nursing staff

    mom23RN replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    that is awesome!!!!!!! now that is a fantastic

  15. What is it about Med-Surg that you don't like?

    mom23RN replied to RazorbackRN's topic in General Nursing

    I can't stand med-surg. I did it in my clinicals and hated it. I was always an adreneline junkie at heart. In our hospital it was really a lot of dressing changes, meds, and not much

  16. If it wasn't for bad luck....

    mom23RN replied to galenight's topic in General Nursing

    Oh no!!!!!!!!! Boy, I hope you get a turn of better luck

  17. Physician bullying/sarcastic comments to nursing staff

    mom23RN replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ohhhhh!!!! Sorry. I was flabergasted!!!! Still, even without obsenities would he be happier doing it ALL on his own??? I would explain that you were helping in a situation that wasn't even yours...

  18. Physician bullying/sarcastic comments to nursing staff

    mom23RN replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If this continues to be a problem I would speak to the director of the ER or your NM. You in NO way have to tolerate behavior like that. Especially if he used an obsenity in front of the patient????...

  19. 8 hour or 12 hour shifts

    mom23RN replied to nursemelani's topic in General Nursing

    When I was working we did 2 12s and 2 8s. And full timers did have the same schedule every 2

  20. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    mom23RN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    Holy Schnikes!!!!!

  21. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    mom23RN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    You guys are killing me here!!!!!

  22. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    mom23RN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    OMG!!!!!:rotfl::chuckle:roll I just spewed Pepsi

  23. Pure Tone Stethoscopes

    mom23RN replied to blufoxtrot's topic in Emergency

    I haven't heard anything about those, but I thought I would tell you that I have alwasy loved my LIttman Master Cardiology. It is fantastic!!!! I think with any stethoscope the bigger and badder the...

  24. Florida woman goes into hospital to have baby, leaves as a double amputee

    mom23RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    From my experience strep is "normal flora" on our skin, our mucous membranes, etc. There is a small percent of the population that "carrys" this bug. Sometimes something happens to a mutated form of...

  25. What if you want to take a long trip?

    mom23RN replied to MarySunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, how much fun!!!!!! My brother and his wife both quit their IT jobs the summer before they married and spent 4 months backpacking in Europe!! They had such a GREAT time!!! Actually when they got...