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The trouble with gene pools is there are not enough lifeguards.

Great thread. Some of the staff members should gather and collate the anecdotes and write a book. I have heard numerous "malapropisms" over the years. One cute one that comes to mind: A student nurse was sharing a popsicle with one of the elderl...

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 Australia in the mid '90s. It had been built in 1942 t...

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 graduated with. we were new, on our own, no instructo...

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 understand what is going on at the cellular level in the d...

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

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 time I only had 14 months to go until retirement (now...

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 lines.

Ostensibly leaving the air in not only clears the needle allowing the full dose to be delivered but to a degree it will also force the fluid into the tissue a bit more. The effect of this is when the needle is withdrawn, the fluid will not leak out t...

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 Thanksgiving

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 of all backgrounds. It exists in Doctors of all b...

Absolutely! Not to mention other little goodies like the "I'm OK, you're OK, I feel your pain can we talk?" courses. Therapeutic communication is necessary but by the 3rd course of it, it has lost some of its...whatever it had in the first place (whi...

Livetolearn You are absolutely correct. The Staff Development Education nurses I work with are all part time practitioners in addition to their SDE duties. It helps them keep current with their clinical skills. The comment from Fiona59 is while broad...

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 & P, is to attend a post-mortem. I am not famili...

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 happening at the anatomical (read cellular) level, the be...

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 specific (in nursing it is many things specific) for mon...

Not only America. Canada will also share in this.

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 command of the English language will be lost to cyber ...

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

If the patient has S.C. access that is being used for one drug only, then all you need to do is to prime the S.C. on insertion with the drug you are using and then you need not flush thereafter. As well, somewhere within your institution's Policies a...

I, too, had a similar experience in my OB rotation. This goes back 20 plus years now. However it was not the patients that seemed to present the obstacle (as I perceive it in retrospect) but the nursing staff themselves, particularly the Charge nurse...

Hi there. At the hospital I work in Canada, the ward nurses extract all manner of drains; chest tubes, perc nephrostomy tubes, uretral stints and external ventricular drains. There is no question of the procedure being a "doctor's" duty. It encompass...