14togo

14togo has 20 years experience and specializes in ortho, urology, neurosurgery, plastics.

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1. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   14togo replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   The trouble with gene pools is there are not enough

2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   14togo replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   Whist browsing through the site I came upon this thread for the first time. I have a "ghost" story I would like to share although it is not particularly scary. I worked in a veteran's hospital in...

3. New Grads Today v. New Grads From Years Ago

   14togo replied to sj73201's topic in First Year After Licensure

   hi there. i think that saying that every new grad struggled, be they of today's generation or that of years gone by (pick a number), is not a misperception. i certainly did, as did most of those i...

4. What did you struggle with most in nursing school?

   14togo replied to mrgaylordfocker's topic in General Students

   I would suggest Phathophysiology, Pharmacy and somehow learn aspects of critical thinking. My nursing career has been entirely in acute care and I firmly believe that if you as a nurse do not...

5. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

   14togo replied to sethmctenn's topic in Nursing Humor

   Whien I was nursing in Australia, there was a child psychologist named......Dr.

6. What does your username mean?

   14togo replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

   When I changed my used name I tried to be creative, but alas, there was no epiphany forhtcoming. I said to myself I was getting too old to be doing this stuff. My (new) user name reflected at that...

7. A Christmas to Remember

   14togo replied to orthonurse55's topic in General Nursing

   From an old Persian work of times past "I cried because I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet" Merry Christmas and all that to all who chose to read these

8. How does BON handle + marijuana screens from nurses in states that have legalized it?

   14togo replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

   FYI. ingestion of poppy seed bagels/cakes the like DOES reult in a positve tox screen for opiates. And...yes second hand smoke from Cannabis will register on the tox screen. Happy

9. Patients and the race card

   14togo replied to CanadaEh's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Welcome to reality kiddo. Don't internalize the negativity you perceive here. Racism is alive and doing well (unfortunately) and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. It exists in patients...

10. Is anatomy one of the toughest courses for nursing?

    14togo replied to Toots71506's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It has been interesting reading the various submissions, coming as they are from the broad spectrum of nursing. If I may suggest one exercise, if you will, that is very apropos to the learning of A...

11. Is anatomy one of the toughest courses for nursing?

    14togo replied to Toots71506's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Being a bit of an old fart, and having travelled several discipline paths in my nursing journey, it has been my observation (and one of my most ardent beliefs) that the better you know what is...

12. Time to call a duck a duck?

    14togo replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You are absolutely right. Nail on the head. Needle threaded...ad nauseum. We nurses I believe, think of our selves as professionals. A professional, by definition, is someone who does something...

13. Posting advice: "I can't do this, ...I don't understand you"

    14togo replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    Not only America. Canada will also share in

14. Posting advice: "I can't do this, ...I don't understand you"

    14togo replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    As someone who does not own, nor has ever owned a cellphone, with what little knowledge of texting I know, I found K.P.A.'s post hillarious. As a grandparent, I am not a little concerned that the...

15. The best nursing advice you've ever received

    14togo replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    . pay attention to the leittle things . do not worry about the things you can't control .never take the counsel of your