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    Becoming a Certified Breastfeeding Educator

    NICU_Nurse replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Tiffany, Thank you! Those links were added to my favorites list and I will check them out as soon as possible. I fully support the use of a doula (and even considered becoming one before I went to...
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    Nursing Commercial Ideas

    NICU_Nurse replied to Sleepyeyes's topic in General Nursing

    I posted this in another thread, but someone told me you guys were in here, so I'm re-posting it. ;>) You know, ever since I started nursing school, I have wanted to see someone produce a show...
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    Becoming a Certified Breastfeeding Educator

    NICU_Nurse replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks!! I found an organization called CAPPA that offers lactation certification!! Thank you thank you thank you. I have been looking for this for an eternity. I feel like Homer Simpson. Doh!...
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    Neonatal Nurse Professional Organizations

    NICU_Nurse replied to Brownbetty's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I had limited funds, and I just joined the Academy because of the great deals they were offering. For 77$, I got the membership, journal, etc., and for ten bucks a piece I got a really great...
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    Night shift nurses are lazy and NICU isn't real nursing!

    NICU_Nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone else out there been hearing this crap from other people? I am surprised, I admit, to find out how many people (at least where I work and went to school) look down on neonatal nurses as not...
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    PICU Nurses

    NICU_Nurse replied to biscuit_007's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Ohmygod, Finally, someone in the South!!!! Just wanted to say hello. ;>P Hello! I don't feel so alone now...
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    Night shift nurses are lazy and NICU isn't real nursing!

    NICU_Nurse replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    If you read the original post, you'd see that this is neither.
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    Night shift nurses are lazy and NICU isn't real nursing!

    NICU_Nurse replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Nick, I thought since no one else had done it yet, I would try to explain a little bit of that to you. I don't know how much you know about nursing, so forgive me if I oversimplify some of it!...
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    Night shift nurses are lazy and NICU isn't real nursing!

    NICU_Nurse replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    You guys, thanks! I just came home from my fourth twelve hour shift in a row and am exhausted, and I needed a little 'ego massage'! ;>P I know that people can whine and bi*ch about nothing, and I...
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    Practical jokes at work

    NICU_Nurse replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I was the first one to offer that idea up as a joke. Been there, done that. ;>P Moving on to greener pastures, if I can come up with something really good!! That's where you guys come...
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    Practical jokes at work

    NICU_Nurse replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have been DYING to play a new joke on some of our nurses or even some of the rotating med students- perhaps using some fake blood or some of those gory halloween scar-trauma flesh-like things. One...
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    Practical jokes at work

    NICU_Nurse replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Ya'll make me raff. Just the other night, I convinced a very shy, demure nurse that I work night shift with to play a trick on some of the med students. One of them had asked for a stool sample, and...
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    Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    NICU_Nurse replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital is poor as dirt, so was I ever surprised to read the newsletter mentioning 'Hospital Employee Appreciation Week' as they call it. For working supremely understaffed (as it seems our...
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    Help - Career Day at Preschool

    NICU_Nurse replied to RNKitty's topic in General Nursing

    My tip: Bribe them!!! See if you can find some nurse or health-related stickers and give one to each of them, or print some on the computer using a free nursing clip-art thingy, or take some suckers...
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    HELP my dry hands!!!!

    NICU_Nurse replied to OneChattyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    A friend recommended some cream to me- Gardener's Hand creme from Crabtree and Evelyn- it has shea butter in it, and is very, very thick and an excellent moisturizer. It takes only a dab to...
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    New Nurses Poorly Educated

    NICU_Nurse replied to Huganurse's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, had to test..haven't been able to submit on here for days! I am a student; four months to graduation. I, too, am terrified that my hands on skills are...lacking. I have had the opportunity to...
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    Unsafe future nurse! What do you think??

    NICU_Nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a nursing student four months away from graduating, and I've run into a "situation" of sorts with another student in my class; it is causing great concern to me, and I was wondering what all of...
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    Need help in persuading students to become nurses

    NICU_Nurse replied to eventsnyc's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As much as I am absolutely, fanatically passionate about becoming a nurse (four months! yay!), I had to think long and hard about the idea of recommending another person go into the field. In school,...
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    Unsafe future nurse! What do you think??

    NICU_Nurse replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, I think the reason she has gotten away with this so far is because no one has reported her. I don't work with her, but I do know a number of people who do. I have been in clinicals...