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I was wondering how much states charge for renewal of licenses. I am an RN and Indiana charges $50 during the year in which you renew. We renew every other year in Indiana. LPN's in the even years, RN's in odd years. I think LPN licenses are the ...

I was wondering if anyone can tell a difference between these two meds? When Xopenex was first released it was suppose to be superior to albuterol because it supposedly had few side effects such as not raising the HR like albuterol can. But now the...

There is a doctor (and I use that word lightly to describe him) at our facility who has a rotten reputation. He treats the nurses and the patients like crap....the other day he cussed out another nurse in front of her co-workers. Does she have any ...

Do small, not-for-profit, county controlled hospitals have unions? I was reading through another thread about unions and it seemed like all those facilities were large hospitals. The facility I work at is about 80 beds total, and non-union. Anyone...

I don't know if it is just our particular facility or what, but we have had major problems getting the larger facilities to accept pts for transfer. We are a small hospital, and there are certain conditions we are not equipped to handle. But lately...

Our manager wants us to start doing our flow sheets at the patient's bedside. I am not really hip on this idea, but I suppose I would adjust. The one thing I am having trouble dealing with is the fact that the flow sheets are going to be stored on ...

Went to one of the mandatory HIPAA inservices we had the other day. I tell you this is about enough to make me want to get out of health care....I am all for patient's privacy and such but I think some of this has gone too far. We have been told at...

I am a dayshift person. I work 7a-7p full time. I have been with my current employer for almost 8 years. Due to the high turnover of nurses, I am about 5th on the list for seniority for our department, out of about 35. The past few years, our nur...

What kind of stupid questions have you been asked by a physician? You know, the kind that just make you want to scream. I had a patient the other day who was having big time mental status changes. I finally convinced the doctor that something wasn...

We are getting a spanking brand new hospital!! This is a real feat for us because the one we are working in now is from the Florence Nightingale era. (Not quite maybe, but close). Management is trying to pretend that they are actually interested i...

I was wondering if any other med/surg nurses feel like their departments are the hospital "dumping grounds?" In our small hospital, our M/S floor basically gets what the other departments refuse to take. Besides are regular inpatient med/surg patie...

Men, take notice: The RULES - As Written By Females 1. The Female always makes THE RULES. 2. THE RULES are subject to change without notice. 3. No Male can possible know all THE RULES. 4. If the Female suspects the Male knows all THE RULES, she ...

I work in small hospital which is about 80 beds. We have M/S, tele, peds on one unit. We have a 5 bed OB and a 5 bed nursery. 22 skilled nursing beds, 4 ICU beds, and some psych beds, plus ER. I think we have a good hospital but like a lot of sma...

We were just told today in our staff meeting that we are suppose to read back telephone orders to the doctors and then sign it "read back and verified." I always read my orders back to the physicians when I take telephone/verbal orders but just sign...

Our infection control nurse has told us that we are not allowed to bring in our own hand lotion for our PERSONAL use at work. We are suppose to use the stuff supplied by the facility. She says it is because of infection control issues. The facilit...

My guess is that it would be in violation of HIPAA. When people check into our ER now for treatment, they are asked if they want a copy of their ER record to go to their PCP. So, I guess if a doc from another hospital calls and inquires about a pt ...

My guess is that it would be in violation of HIPAA. When people check into our ER now for treatment, they are asked if they want a copy of their ER record to go to their PCP. So, I guess if a doc from another hospital calls and inquires about a pt ...

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"Saddam was going to tear that down anyway." Credit: John Blaszczyk

He has been MIA for several days. Probably buried under the imaginary rubble that was caused by the imaginary missles and bombs.

I don't work OB (never have) and even I know NOT to pull on an umbilical cord!!! Doctor will be lucky if doesn't get sued....

I have had glasses since I was 9 y/o (now in mid 30's) and had no trouble getting into school. I had to have a general medical check-up but I would think as long as you can read the eye chart with your glasses or contacts you should have no problems...

How on earth does the nurse check the pt's ID and transfusion info without a blood bank bracelet? At our facility the person who draws the pt for the T&C has to band the pt, no exceptions. A couple of the lab people have forgot to "band" the pa...

State doesn't announce when they are coming to our hospital either. But it usually about the same time every year give or take 3 months. In the past our floor has never had any problem with state. They come up make sure the narcs are locked, audit...