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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    hi deb :) no money to shop with this christmas...not yet anyway...but, i have faith, and i truly do believe with all my heart, mind, and soul that "it is in the mail" and "on it's way" to me...
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    Appropriate Action?

    live4today replied to mdmetz's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Simba.
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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Deb....I haven't made the chowder yet, but when I do I'll be sure and post how dee-licious I know it's going to be. Wish I had my own kitchen to cook in, but for now must make due with wherever I'm...
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    Calling in sick

    live4today replied to perfectbluebuildings's topic in General Nursing

    I'll call in when I'm sick. Sick entails emotional, physical, and mental. It's none of their business what the "sickness" entails. Call in as soon as you know you are not going to make it to work so...
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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Now that kind of meal I can enjoy! :) Be right
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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    since i don't cook much anymore...kids grown and all....the healthiest dishes i put together for myself on a regular basis are as follows: fruit shake: when i used to drink soy milk, i mixed soy milk...
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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    UH...COME AGAIN? :uhoh21: OH HECK NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: NO SNAKE IS GONNA TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN MY BELLY! AND NO POSSUM EITHER IN CASE SIRI SENT YOU SOME TO SERVE UP FER GUEST!...
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    Handling coworkers personalities?

    live4today replied to CEN35's topic in General Nursing

    That does present a situation that warrants serious attention then, CEN. My suggestion would be to first approach in a nonthreatening manner each person individually and share with each one how their...
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    Handling coworkers personalities?

    live4today replied to CEN35's topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone ever suggested having a separate sheet placed in the patient's chart strictly for the IV Teams to chart on? That way, it would be easier for the staff or docs or whomever needs the...
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    Can LPNs work in a Dialysis Center?

    live4today replied to Twix's topic in Texas Nursing

    :balloons: Hello Twix! Welcome to allnurses! :) One of my daughter's is an LPN living in TX. She did tell me once before that LPNs work in dialysis centers where she lives. She's thinking about it...
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    how many hours a week do you work????

    live4today replied to akerdonn's topic in General Nursing

    Currently, ZERO since I'm out of work right now. BUT...when I do work, I work about 24 to 36 hours per week. I never sign up for overtime, and never go in on my days off. I happen to like having a...
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    Handling coworkers personalities?

    live4today replied to CEN35's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I sure don't see myself listed in that category. Thank You Lord! :) Honestly, I do not tend to view people in those categories. I take each one as an individual and try to relate to them on...
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    what do you think of the doctors you work with???

    live4today replied to MagicalThinking's topic in General Nursing

    In eighteen years of being a nurse, I've only come across four docs that I would have loved to take to the woodshed for a beatin' due to their bad manners and rudeness towards nurses. One of those...
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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Now you're talkin' my kind of good eatin' Jess. How about setting up a place for me at the table. I'll be right over.
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    Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    live4today replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    :balloons: Hi Chelly....welcome to the "Healthier Living Support Thread: Part Two! So glad to have you onboard with us. I usually post regularly, but of late not too much since I'm living out of my...
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    Being called in extra....do you go??

    live4today replied to IloveSnoopy's topic in General Nursing

    You'll learn to say no. If you don't, you will have NO LIFE! Take a class on how to be more assertive so you can start standing up for yourself. :) As for me...when I am scheduled to...
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    A Hard Lesson Learned

    live4today replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    (((((((((((((((((((((((((((marla))))))))))))))))))))))))))) you are not alone in what you went through that shift. many nurses, including myself, have had shifts like that. i left my job in 2003 for...
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    Nursing school or Medical school

    live4today replied to steph86's topic in Nursing Career

    How about job shadowing a nurse one day, then job shadow a physician in the area of your interest (surgery, neuro, ortho, mother/baby, etc.) ??? That would be the BEST way for you to determine which...
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    just a thought

    live4today replied to fire storm's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Men have been physicians for years, so why not be a midwife/husband. What do we have on our physical bodies that they haven't seen anyway? Perhaps delivering babies, and helping moms through the...
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    dumb questions

    live4today replied to mediatix8's topic in General Nursing

    My philosophy is: When in doubt....CALL!!! Better to call and get yelled at for calling, than NOT to call and get yelled at for NOT calling. Either way...always take the route that BEST protects your...
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    Wearing Gloves for Injections

    live4today replied to BGSRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I believe in donning those gloves NO MATTER WHAT! Patients are FULL of surprises when you least expect them to be.
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    House, MD last night.....AAAGH!

    live4today replied to SteveNNP's topic in General Nursing

    I do not watch House myself. I've tried a few times but can barely stomach the show, so end up turning it. I ignore it most times. As for Grey's Anatomy.........luv that show!!! I try to watch every...
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    What do you think about egg donation?

    live4today replied to sherichance's topic in General Nursing

    I do not know anyone who has donated their eggs. As for myself? I would NOT donate my eggs to strangers. I would only donate an egg for a blood relative (sister, brother's wife, aunt, cousin, mother)....
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    resignation dilemma

    live4today replied to mtnmom's topic in General Nursing

    See an attorney regarding this matter. Go by what the attorney says. If you cannot afford to hire an attorney, legal services or paralegals in your area who are familiar with "employment laws" will...
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    Test this Wednesday Pray for me!

    live4today replied to IcantThinkofaName's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Ask and you shall recieve. Prayers spoken for you. Stay relaxed! Don't tense up! Trust what you know, and don't try to get fancy smancy with the answers. Give them only what the question ask for. Keep...