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    The Mockery of Nursing

    kids replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think eventually you run out of evaluators willing to get in a car with you. Then you have to move on to a new town and a fresh
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    Healthcare professionals using insulting language

    kids replied to cayenne06's topic in General Nursing

    Consider yourself called out on it. Do you use racial slurs "all the time" as well? A lot of people DON'T consider it pretty insignifacant, change takes
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    Healthcare professionals using insulting language

    kids replied to cayenne06's topic in General Nursing

    This is one of my favorite pieces Rolling Around In My Head: The People Who 'ARE' It's my experience that people who toss out 'the R word' typically fall in two categories: those who haven't...
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    Facebook almost cost me my job

    kids replied to ReginaPhalange's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It doesn't matter, if it was posted it's cached and is on the internet forever. And it doesn't take a techo geek to find
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    The Unemployed RN

    kids replied to diamondeye's topic in Retired Nurses

    If you have good IV skills (or a way to update your IV skills) look at IV therapy and home infusion, or even "regular" home health. If you have any vent/trach experience (or a willingness to learn)...
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    Help with precautions

    kids replied to ecp4's topic in General Students

    I'm having an awful figuring out how to articulate this (fighting a migraine today)... Don't identify the individual types of precautions, find the highest level because it includes the lower levels....
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    Mickey buttons and lansoprazole capsules

    kids replied to Blackcat99's topic in Pediatric

    But they very often will pay for the capsules to be turned into a liquid by a compound pharmacist. Which is the method a compound pharmacist uses to make the capsules into a liquid: dissolve it in...
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    severe skin flaking...anyone seen this?

    kids replied to luvbug9956's topic in General Nursing

    To everyone who is responding...this thread is nearly 8 years old. Again, the thread is nearly 8 years old. The person you're asking information of hasn't posted in nearly a year. Good luck with...
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    PA scope of practice for LPN. IV pushes?

    kids replied to horrorxgirl's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    ktw's answer is the only one that matters, what LPNs in other states say they can do is
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    Dilantin via PEG - stop TF??

    kids replied to littlegreenfrog's topic in Patient Medications

    This. I've seen it orders (and facility policies) that specifying NOT to stop the TF (in LTC/SNF) which can save a lot of time/hassle during med passes. The rationale I've always been given is that...
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    What motivates you to go to work every day?

    kids replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    The husband's paycheck covers our living expenses, I work because I enjoy spending
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    What college will take credits from ???

    kids replied to DNURSENSOCAL's topic in Online Distance Learning

    There is no easy answer to your question. You haven't provided enough information for anyone to really even begin to help and more than likely you're going to have to do your own research. As near as...
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    Help! Effect of nursing shortage on nursing management and leadership

    kids replied to purpletouch's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You got some very well thought out responses in your other thread, that you don't like them doesn't make them uneducated. You don't seem to 'get' that that the points in your outline are false or...
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    Will a mandate requring RN's to obtain BSN's contribute to a shortage?

    kids replied to mttzakr87's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Your 'source' is a predictive study from 2000 that used data from 1997. The current employment rates for nurses prove that the market has and is being effected by the
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    Fluid Boluses

    kids replied to RN313's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Not at all what you're asking about but I'd have been questioning an order for a bolus over diuresis. It sounds like the patient has plenty of fluids on
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    what do i do about a clinical instructor who embarrassed me in front of others?

    kids replied to leogirl8's topic in General Students

    Not spoon feeding you the information doesn't mean she doesn't know the answer. She's showing you where to find the answer to your questions and making you think for yourself, what any good...
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    Denied by BON in one state due to criminal history will another state lisc. me?

    kids replied to loveandy's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Each state BoN makes their own determination, based on the information you provide them as part of your application packet. You will more than likely have to disclose that you've previously been...
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    Gloves & Allergies

    kids replied to raskol's topic in General Nursing

    They are not telling her to suck it up and wear the latex, they are offering her vinyl, a non-latex alternative, she just doesn't like
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    Bad preceptorship assignment

    kids replied to tajlemm6's topic in General Students

    EVERYONE in your class is entitled to the best learning experience they can provide, just because you don't want behavioral health doesn't mean you're not getting
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    what's the most important things to know about Dialysis patient??

    kids replied to beatrice1's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    If your house bowel protocol includes milk of mag dialysis patients can not have
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    do you think I should be written up?

    kids replied to daisymae65035's topic in General Nursing

    You charted that someone was receiving an antibiotic when you never even verified they were getting it. It is falsified documentation, whether or not you should be written up depends on your...
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    ABANDONED

    kids replied to GitanoRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm kind of shocked that HIV was diagnosed in an ER. Even running them in-house my hospital took a day or 2, the labs aren't even released until confirmation testing is
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    Nurses eating heathy

    kids replied to ronnyronoh's topic in General Nursing

    You joined today and your first 2 questions are pretty stilted. This looks like homework. Tell us, why do YOU think a nurse would councel someone toward a behavior/lifestyle the nurse doesn't practice...
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    keeping your nursing skills up to date

    kids replied to ronnyronoh's topic in General Nursing

    You joined today and your first 2 questions are pretty stilted. This looks like homework. Tell us, what do YOU think a new grad can do to keep their skills and knowledge up to
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    Failed NCLEX 5 Times! Am I The Only One Who . . .

    kids replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    The old NCLEX did required a strong knowledge of patho-phys and more questions than not required critical thinking. We didn't get to listen to heart or lung sounds or have diagrams, we answered...