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  1. Hello and welcome to the site. Is this a school assignment. If so, I will be happy to move it to the Nursing Student Assistance
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    Nursing Survey: Violence in the Workplace

    Many of you have viewed the very disturbing video of a 68 year old male patient in a Minnesota hospital who chased and brutally attacked several nurses with a metal pole from his hospital bed last...
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    Sponsored Topics

    Just wanted to give you a heads up. You will start seeing some Sponsored Topics on the site. These are articles that are sponsored by schools and other institutions......they are not spam but are...
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    Informatics: What is it? What can I do with it?

    This information should be helpful for students considering informatics as a specialty. Please feel free to ask questions or provide your
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    Nursing Survey: Violence in the Workplace

    If you click on OTHER you can add your location outside the
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    Nursing Survey: Violence in the Workplace

    There are more than 1100 responses so far. We will publish a summary of the responses as there are too many to list individually. So far there are many recurrent
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    Nursing Survey: Violence in the Workplace

    Question 4 is no longer a required question since some people have not witnessed or experienced an act of
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    Nursing Survey: Violence in the Workplace

    As we have done with all of our surveys, the results will be published shortly after the survey is over which will be in a few
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    Nursing Survey: Violence in the Workplace

    Thanks for the input. We have corrected
  10. Just remember........not all nurses are at the bedside...or even in a hospital. And believe it or not......nurses that don't work in a hospital are still real nurses. That is one of the beauties of...
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    Ebola Nursing Survey: to Quarantine or Not to Quarantine

    The allnurses survey results very much agree with
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    Nurses Who Harm Patients

    It states in the article that this is part of a series of
  13. I want to express my personal thanks to the nurses at Presby Dallas, especially those who had direct care with the patients infected with the Ebola virus. Just know that many in the nursing world as...
  14. Wall Street Journal Hospitals Wrestle with Extent of Ebola
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    Nurse Nina Reunited with Her Precious Bentley

    On a happy note.......Dallas nurse Nina Pham who recovered from Ebola has been reunited with her dog Bentley, which was sequestered in early October after she became ill, and thanked those who took...
  16. "There's no question that nursing school is challenging. And when you are trying to manage home and work responsibilities on top of your nursing studies, the amount of studying you need to do could...
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    Ebola Nursing Survey: to Quarantine or Not to Quarantine

    ADMIN REQUEST Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion and the right to express that opinion without derogatory responses. There is no 100% guarantee that anyone knows all there is to know about the...
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    Esme Needs Your Prayers and Well Wishes

    Esme had emergency surgery Saturday and is in ICU. She is doing better, but is still very uncomfortable. She could use some extra prayers and well-wishes from her friends here on allnurses. We...
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    A Way to Spice up Your PPE Training

    Texas health workers are preparing two new biocontainment units to help treat any future Ebola patients that might end up under their care. Although the units may not be as elaborate as the ones at...
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    A Way to Spice up Your PPE Training

    Oh yes! Ashton and Adam could play the part of the Ebola virus. Chocolate everywhere! Back to our previously scheduled
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    A Way to Spice up Your PPE Training

    The goal is to keep it off the skin. Chocolate syrup will not irritate, but it won't let the trainee know if they get a speck on them. The Ebola virus won't make itself known either. So it's better...
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    5-year-old boy being tested for Ebola in New York City

    Update...... Tests on a 5-year-old boy who showed possible symptoms of Ebola, have come back negative. « CBS New
  23. The latest to add to the fears. There are not many details to be found, but we all are hoping the labwork is negative....
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    5-year-old boy being tested for Ebola in New York City

    More information has surfaced on this case. According to the New York Times: There have been lots of suspicious cases in NYC after Dr. Spencer's diagnosis. In most all if the cases Ebola was ruled...
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    Help!!! Applying to 2015 FIU nursing program

    Hello an welcome to the site. I moved your thread to General Nursing Student for more