Xbox Live Addict

Xbox Live Addict

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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

  16. gotta love LTC nursing...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

    You did aggressive follow-up with both the resident and his physician. Your actions were appropriate. As long as you documented your interventions and the Physician's responses, all should be good. No...

  17. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Unfortunately, Oklahoma, with the blessing of our then-governor, passed the right-to-work law in a landslide. The governor proclaimed, "Oklahoma is OPEN FOR BUSINESS!" Yeah, maybe for minimum-wage...

  18. Teachers can "Pinch Hit" for Nurses?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to dianabay's topic in School

    I wonder how this journalist would feel about the idea of "protecting their jobs" if the L.A. Times falls victim, as so many print publications have, to the ready, if somewhat questionable, supply of...

  19. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    A-MEN! No California nurse would accept the working conditions common in Oklahoma

  20. Gross Things You Wish You Didn't See (G-rated)

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

    Ugh... used to constantly dig food scraps, even whole food out of several morbidly obese, elderly NH patients' crevices and bedding who had habits of hoarding snacks. Another gross patient I had was a...

  21. Nurses: Mandatory Vaccinations?

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

    I've taken the Hep B series once, and have refused it at all subsequent hire-ons. I only accepted one flu vaccine, and I was so ill for 3 days (and wasn't allowed to be off work) that I absolutely...

  22. Are LPN at risk of losing their jobs?

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

    In my area, LPNs have generally worked in LTC; they are a rarity in hospitals. This has been the case for years, and is not particular to the current economic recession. I haven't heard anything about...

  23. Nursing Shortage Real or Not....

    Xbox Live Addict replied to RNnightingale12's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how secure the jobs are, given the recent hospital and unit closings in certain cities, and in some areas, such as many Northeastern cities, there's a glut of nurses who can't find jobs...

  24. I got reprimanded at work for not using a bra !

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Kath80's topic in General Nursing

    "Boys and their boobs..." You know, you just put some rather disturbing mental pictures in my head with those 4

  25. I got reprimanded at work for not using a bra !

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Kath80's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly... I think some of you ladies are too hard on yourselves. There are beautiful features to be found in ANY woman. Besides, I know I'm no Brad Pitt