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That's an interesting comment Tmylen. An EMT career doesn't exactly make me out to be an overachiever-type-A personality now does it? :rotfl: I would not waste time pouring through a legal brief to make observations. I would most definitely not wa...

By Sargarcia Being nice to a patient or thier family is not a skill only nurses can perform. It's true that seeing or even hearing of a doctor doing more than the obligatory gestures of kindness is not common place, but perhapse it's because the...

By Fergus How do doctors manage the medical care of thier patients without managing what nurses do to fulfill that obligation? I don't see a nursing license making a nurse into a private contractor. If that was the case you wouldn't have a need ...

Doctors not in charge of patient care, as in ultimate responsibility for the patient's overall treatment. Why spend 10 years completing medical school when one can just become a nurse in two and gain much more of the responsibility? Those poor idiots...

By Mellowone I would want someone who cares more about knowing what to do in such a situation........and has prepared for that event should it arise. I don't want someone who wears the title proudly but rather takes responsibility for knowing the...

Fergus, You sound like a very reasonable person to work with. The concept of someone like an anesthesiologist not being current on everything that has to do with IVs is difficult to wrap my mind around. I believe what you're saying, yet, the visua...

Yes, that was 15 years ago when last I experienced decapitation at the swift blade of an NICU nurse. They would even go as far to dictate where one could stand or walk. Ask a question and thier eyes would roll back in thier sockets as if possesed b...

In regards to interns: Isn't that a student being exposed to the clinical rotation for the first time? It took me two run throughs with IV's before I could set one up as fast myself. Sounds as if the nurses at your hospital are teaching medical st...

From Ellenester You are correct. My experience has been only with medical professionals. The residents I've worked with as a respiratory therapist were not taught my job in medical school either, but they were far from incapable of doing it. Th...

Jolie, Fergus, Thank you for your insightfulness. I am just shocked that an MD would not know about such basic care as drawing blood and giving an IM for gawds sakes!!..............AN IV bag??......seriousely? with all those frigging alarms going o...

A definition of "medical care" would be that under the direction of a physician, so wouldn't that be any care that the physician has written orders for? Can you give an example of something which a physician has written an order for that a nurse is ...

Why is it a good thing? I haven't read the decision but it wouldn't matter anyway. I would rather hear it from a nurse's point of view.

Uh.......Why wouldn't physicians be the authority in all aspects of patient care? What good are nursing standards if not to decide what care a patient receives? Seems nursing will further distance themselves from medicine with this precedent.

A word of caution. Kavakava was responsible for some liver enzymes in studies meant to show its efficacy. General Nutrition Centers pulled it from thier shelves about 2 years ago. Since it is VERY RARE for opponents of herbal remedies to have to h...

Standing on the tubing? That's a good one. With a patient on a vent I would not have thought of that first.

Look at the patients breathing pattern. O2 toxicity is rare everywhere but in a patient scenario :) . The fact he just had a tx raises the possibility that he is ventillating well enough to shut down his hypoxic drive. Patients usually take exagge...

:) I would wash my hands

By fab4fan What makes you think that I'm coming here to rant about how awful the nursing job is? I think you have me confused with the thousands of nurses on this board that do that daily. I certainly don't think I said I was coming here in a de...

I only see the ones you make to the threads I post on. Maybe we both see our posts selectively, in a positive light. There's a broader picture here I think. Just because I no longer want to become a nurse doesn't mean I no longer have an interes...

By fab4fan I was being positive :chuckle Besides, since I can remember your screen name, I can't recall you ever being positive. I do recall you being very unpositive to quite a few folks. I have dismissed it because of the enviroment you m...

Roland, My God, I only wish the program I left last year would have had SOME science. I left because the medical aspect of the curriculum was just fluff. The other thing about it was the test questions, as in your case, were contrived from personal...

I think ADRN will benefit from some "opportunities for growth";) that general floor nursing can provide. BTW ADRN, you are clearly not "lazy" as you put it if you can get through a nursing program. I think that you don't realize how more academic d...

On second thought ADRN.............you just stay there in that role. It is perfect.

by adrn Never said I was doing it for the supposed prestige. One of your arguments was pursuit of prestige so I made a point with it. Making it look as if I'm going for the PA for prestige by posting such a thing without a quote from me is simpl...

I agree, but I was hopeful to discuss at least one of my points. It is frustrating to have a point (even if you're cukoo for cocoa puffs) and not get a forum for expressing it. Alas.............it's like raising your voice in a canyon and never hear...