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    Dreading my first Colonoscopy

    live4today replied to Genista's topic in Gastroenterology

    I had my very first colonoscopy last summer and don't remember a thing after my "lights were put out". :rotfl: Yes...Versed and Fentanyl ROCK!!! The clear liquid diet and the bowel prep were no...
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    New Meaning for LPN and RN (not a debate)

    live4today replied to NurCrystal22's topic in LPN to RN

    When I was a student nurse doing my clinicals at a pediatric hospital, I had a little four year old patient tell me that I was not a "wheel nurse" because I wore a white uniform and nursing cap....
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    If you could no longer be a nurse?...

    live4today replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    :balloons: Hi Sasha...welcome to Allnurses! I love books...especially the smell of new books. Ahhhhh....fresh, clean, wonderful books! I am actually looking for non nursing jobs, and working in a...
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    If you could no longer be a nurse?...

    live4today replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    My passion is writing poetry, stories, true life help books, etc., so that is what I would do full time as long as I had the money to pay my bills while doing it. It takes a long time - if ever - to...
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    Please define "burn out"

    live4today replied to stidget99's topic in General Nursing

    Burnout? Been there...got the tshirt! Burn out is when you've taken all you can take of the present condition you are in. You need an out. You need rescued. You feel like screaming at the top of...
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    Please define "burn out"

    live4today replied to stidget99's topic in General Nursing

    Burnout? Been there...got the
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    Is 52 to old for starting nursing program

    live4today replied to soiwanttobeanurse's topic in Nursing Career

    :balloons: Hello Deb! Welcome to Allnurses! If you are still breathing, you are alive enough to pursue your dreams. It aint over 'til it's over, so go for it if that is what your heart longs to do!...
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    Monterey for travel assignment

    live4today replied to suzanne4's topic in California Nursing

    Steph...you can't go because of the little one, but me...I can go...take me...please take me........I luv Monterey...heck, I love California period!
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    Day 8 and I'm expected to take 4 patients?

    live4today replied to calirn05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    madwife.......no question is stupid. You ask a very honest question because bedside nursing here in America is atrocious for the most part, especially on the wards where there are 30 beds or more....
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    I Quit

    live4today replied to nelcoy4's topic in Nursing Career

    ((((((((((you're welcome!)))))))))) let us know how things go. we care!
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    I can't seem to get hired at all; time is running out and I'm losing hope

    live4today replied to Animaniacs's topic in General Nursing

    Stay encouraged! You still have plenty of time left in your schooling as you continue to hunt for the right job for you. Don't view the situation in a negative light. A lot of what is going on today...
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    Add to the story....

    live4today replied to bassRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    pass out
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    Add to the story....

    live4today replied to bassRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    take two aspirin and call me in the morning
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    Add to the story....

    live4today replied to bassRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    ....I was beginning to act
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    Add to the story....

    live4today replied to bassRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    ....that's what we women do...work, bring home the meal, cook it up in the frying pan, bathe the kids, put them to bed, take our bath then crash on the couch with the t.v. running. Before we know...
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    I Quit

    live4today replied to nelcoy4's topic in Nursing Career

    ((((((((((((((Nicmac4))))))))))))) :icon_hug: Just had to give you a big warm caring hug for all you are feeling now. I have pretty much been feeling like you describe about doing bedside nursing. I...
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    Ottawa, IL nurse fired

    live4today replied to Jolie's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Z.........unfortunately, many of our 50 states are classifed as "At Will States". And yes, it is a shame that employers can do this to people who give many hours of their lives to helping the...
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    POLLS - and hospitals... Our hospital is currently having us polled

    live4today replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    There's nothing confidential about THAT
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    AHHHHHHHH! first day of A&P

    live4today replied to browsing's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    :rotfl: I remember thinking the same thing as I sat through A&P I many moons ago. :rotfl: I, too, said they've got to be kidding! How can my body have so much to say? :rotfl: The nervous system...
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    Bad things happen...

    live4today replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for undertanding Crystal. I truly do not believe that nurses fabricate hostile work environments. More and more violence is going on inside of hospitals today than ever before in years past. To...
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    Bad things happen...

    live4today replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    There was nothing far fetched or stretched about the man who physically and verbally assaulted me in that hospital last Spring. An assault is an assault......no matter how you look at it........it's a...
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    Nurses can't just write their own orders...can they?

    live4today replied to Maynmom's topic in Travel

    A sure fire remedy to this problem would be to have a list of things nurses can do, and a list of things nurses cannot do according to the BON in each state. When a doctor tells a nurse to "resume...
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    Required to work as PCA instead of being cancelled!

    live4today replied to Lovemyjobrn's topic in Agency Nurses

    Were you paid as a CNA or as a RN? If you were paid as a RN to do nurse assist duties for four hours, you made out like a bandit. Otherwise, I would have rolled on out the same door I rolled into and...
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    Why???????

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

    :balloons: CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ON PASSING THE NCLEX!!! :w00t:
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    Murder/Suicide at St. Joseph's This Morning....Sad

    live4today replied to CseMgr1's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Only God knows that man's last thoughts and why he felt the need to take both their lives. May they rest in peace. It's not for me to judge