Xbox Live Addict

Xbox Live Addict has 8 years experience and specializes in LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical.

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1. What do you love/hate about LTC?

   Xbox Live Addict replied to ShiphrahPuah's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   It's rough a lot of days. It doesn't seem like it would be as fast as acute care, but it is. You are right, the patient/nurse ratios are much higher; you are much more dependent upon UAP due to the...

2. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

   Xbox Live Addict replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

   I broke down and got unlimited texting. I do wish that cell phone companies would make texting optional instead of an always-active feature that cannot be turned off or refused though. The 15c/message...

3. NO LUNCH? NO BREAKS? Is that common in nursing?

   Xbox Live Addict replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

   In most jobs, breaks, let alone meals, were a luxury. If I did sit down for a meal, 9 times out of ten an admin nurse or a CNA would be dragging me back to the floor. We weren't allowed to leave for...

4. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

   Xbox Live Addict replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

   Any of my professors (I'm working on my B.A. in English) who caught a student texting in class would have a cow - "See me after class" with a threat that if it happens again, the student will be...

5. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

   Xbox Live Addict replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

   Given the horrible limitations of the cell-phone keypad, I can understand why people who text use "texting language." What I never got was the appeal of texting itself. I'm an old dinosaur and need...

6. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

   Xbox Live Addict replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

   Ah, but anyone can spell anything correctly nowadays by Googling it... provided it's something professionally written. I double-checked it. Bragging on it and then spelling it wrong would make me look...

7. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

   Xbox Live Addict replied to Unique87's topic in General Nursing

   Heh... my medical director was impressed because I was the first person he'd ever seen that wasn't a physician who was able to correctly pronounce "Creutzfeldt-Jakob". "Dulcolax", oddly, is frequently...

8. CNA vs CMA and training

   Xbox Live Addict replied to jstreat0418's topic in General Nursing

   Generally, CNA and CMA certification mandate x number of minimum hours of training at a state-approved CNA/CMA training program. As far as I know, no state allows a person to become certified until...

9. Reverse "out source" nursing? Can we call it that?????

   Xbox Live Addict replied to hpygrl01's topic in General Nursing

   In the history books, this was called "indentured servitude" and "bonded" employment (hence the term "bondage"), and amounted to slavery, since the wages indentured workers earned were always...

10. Nursing in a Blizzard---what does your hospital do?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    My own contribution to this is: I live in the lower Midwest. We don't have blizzards here, very rarely does snow get more than an inch when it does fall, because the climate is too warm for blizzards....

11. Nursing in a Blizzard---what does your hospital do?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    this kind of stuff is why i'm glad i got out of hospital/nursing home care. it's nice to go back to work in a job that closes during ugly

12. Only 1 month of orientation !!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to AnaBanana12's topic in Emergency

    "Only" a month? The only job where I spent more than a WEEK in training was my current job at a plasma center, where you have to do every task in the view of a trainer x number of times and jump...

13. How long did you work while pregnant?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to eden's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In the US, you're lucky if you get paid leave at all. The FMLA only protects you from getting fired for taking maternity leave. Most employers here would prefer for women to squat in the bathroom,...

14. Gift Idea: Pharmacy

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Bottles of those "pills" Hallmark sells (really jelly beans.) Flinstones Chewable

15. "I Agree" button?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to alyx's topic in General Nursing

    They could like this site to Digg and have people rate comments that