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1. Need to interview active or retired charge nurse/nurse manager for a paper

   WriteStuff replied to EarthChild1130's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Hello EarthChild, I've been a member of allnurses.com but haven't posted in a long time for "long" reasons I won't go into......but I'm back and saw your post. All you are doing is seeking to...

2. reinstated license after suspension

   WriteStuff replied to bclily's topic in General Nursing

   To bclily: If you successfully completed a Diversion Program through your Board of Nursing, including a probation period, your records are then "expunged" = destroyed as if nothing had ever...

3. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

   WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

   No miracle story is ever "too long" CCURN! Thanks for sharing that - it brought tears to my eyes too - tears of joy and

4. Caregiver killing caregiver

   WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

   I have always said this about the "caregiver killers" - "What you see on the job (their attitudes, their personalities) - is exactly who and what they are, outside of the job." You cannot change...

5. Caregiver killing caregiver

   WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm posting this thread without knowing whether it has been posted already or not, in some other version or by some other title, but here goes anyway. (And at the outset, if the Moderators feel it's...

6. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

   WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

   I just love to read these anecdotal accounts. I simply believe there are "miracles" happening around us all the time and we miss them because we're so distracted by the business of life. So, it's...

7. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

   WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

   Well John - take my advice - start keeping a journal NOW. I look back and wish I had done that for my entire career because the most rewarding moments come by "surprise" and SHOULD be memorialized...

8. Nurse doing cocaine HELP

   WriteStuff replied to llgrn1987's topic in General Nursing

   Thank-you Miranda. I just want to add that NO ONE is "immune" from the seduction of addiction. Given the right ingredients, i.e., timing, availability and accessibility, mental, emotional,...

9. Nurse doing cocaine HELP

   WriteStuff replied to llgrn1987's topic in General Nursing

   I read all 8 pages of posts on this topic. My name is Bonnie. I'm a recovering, alcoholic, addict who will celebrate 10 years of continuous sobriety this August 8th, God willing. I am a...

10. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, TriageRn 34, I can totally relate. I am also convinced that the way in which our lives unfold has everything to do with "design" and "forethought" by a Higher Power - rather than chaotic...

11. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Stitchie, Unfortunately we did not stay in touch, but I got to meet "Elijah" one time, and it was another "basket-case" moment for me, LOL. I moved from Phoenix not long after

12. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

    :balloons: :Melody: :balloons: :Melody: :balloons: :Melody: After 34 years in nursing I've witnessed lots of "miraculous" outcomes. There's one in particular that has stood out, and...

13. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    WriteStuff replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Glad you saw the humor in it. Metal bedpans and bedside commodes with a Spring-loaded platform went out of "fashion" right after that.

14. MedError/Dismissal...What2Do

    WriteStuff replied to brotherbear's topic in General Nursing

    Hi 50cal, Every Nurse has made med errors - some of them serious. We are human. If a Nurse ever tells you she has "never, ever, made a med error", she/he is lying. Whether you are a student...

15. Sad and confused

    WriteStuff replied to javanurse2000's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    nursewendy.....I don't know how old you are, how much experience you've had in nursing so far, but I'll be 61 next month (God willing!), am a Registered Nurse, and have 34 years of experience under my...