Justhere BSN, RN

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    The Cap.......

    Hey Logos I'm 35 and I wore the cap to
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    It's Hard to Live with a Nurse because....

    After having my first c/s my mom made the mistake of asking how my scar was doing. Well I raised up my gown and showed her. She closed her eyes and said "I didn't ask to see it." I said "Why everyone...
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    the little things make you go uh ok

    Well talking about the allergy vs side effect. If I eat shell fish even just one I start puking, loved shrimp as a child and could eat a boat load of it until I was 14, and I started getting sick...
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    The Cap.......

    I still have my cap. Its in the closet in a box. My son saw it one day and said "What is that?" so I explained. He just
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    It's CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

    merry christmas. hope everyone has christ in their life this new year....
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    Silliest thing you ever did after a long shift...

    When I first started working nights I worked 11-7 5 nights a week. I was terrible about sleep walking and talking. My husband said one night I went room to room in the house turning on the lights...
  7. No you are not paying the bill, I am! because you are on Medicaid and are popping babies out faster than we can catch
  8. Saw it asked in another form about nursing shortage about polling to see how many nurses are not working as nurses anymore, how long they worked as a nurse before quiting the profession. And what it...
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    Changing fields, need experience

    You can become a nurses assistant, or some hospitals have a program where nursing students can work at a certain compassity(SP?) (To early in the morning to spell correctly, need tooth picks to hold...
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    lets have a raise on raises..!!

    Advocate1 sorry to say but the answer to your question it is up to your hospital policy. We only get a raise at our hospital when they decide to give you
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    My little sweetie passed away.

    Had to do a little revisiting to this post, haven't viewed it since October of last year. Can't believe it has already been a year. I still dream of him often and it hurts at times when it seems...
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    My 4 yr old son is newly dx with Leukemia ALL

    You will be in my thoughts and prayers. Hope all goes well with his treatments and you finishing nursing school. Just take it one day at a time. God bless your
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    X-ray viewing

    Our whole hospital is up on it. Any medical personnel can pull it
  14. My best advice is to stop studying three days before the test. Relax your mind. Tell yourself that you know this, you've already made it through school. Then say a prayer before starting the test,...
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    baby sleeping in same bed as parents

    Had my daughters baby bed butted up to the side of my bed and the slide rail off so that her mattress and my mattress were the same height. When she would cry I would get her to breastfeed, as soon as...
  16. My comment would be, would just take care of your patients so the rest of us don't have to do both ours and
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    PKU testing

    At our hospital we do them after 24 hours of age. For those that have them done earlier because they insist on leaving before 24 hours then they have to come back for a second test. By reading the...
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    Gompers

    Congrats. She is very pretty. Hope her colic is doing
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    Do you count resps every time you do vitals?

    Had one nurse when I was an LPN and she the RN, that stated a patient had a RR of 40 during her assessment, I had just taken the patients vitals and the RR was 20. So both of us went down to the room...
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    Do you ever talk about your 'bad' patients?

    Oh yes we talk about our bad patients, and right to their faces . But I don't think they remember a thing, considering they are only minutes to hours to days old. We like to tell our 4 hourly feeders...
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    Maternal death

    Sorry to hear this. Don't know if anyone is ever prepared for their first code. You just have to jump in and do the very best you can for your patient and pray for a good turn
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    Someone messed up.

    The blood mobile from the Red Cross use to come to our high school and as long as you were over 16 years old and your parents gave permission then you could donate. I think most of the kids did it to...
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    Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    My daughter has been on it for a since 1st grade, she's in 2nd now. If we forget to give it to her, she is constantly asking once she gets home to have her medicine. If it is after lunch we tell her...
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    Stethoscope Question

    I know Littmann stethoscopes are real good. I have a pediatric one and I hear very well with them. Most of the doctors when I did my cardiac rotation in school also had the Littman
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    Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    My 7 year old daughter takes Concerta. Without it she is a wild child. She literally bounces. Hubby forgot to give it to her one morning before she went to school. Teacher was calling at 1100....