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  1. ECG help

    brownbook replied to Guest1030824's topic in Critical Care

    It is confusing! Is there a picture of the "strip"? ANY EKG is measuring electrical activity of the heart. It doesn't mean it has to be a 12 lead EKG. It can be a 3 or 5 lead EKG. When I see the world...

  2. ECG help

    brownbook replied to Guest1030824's topic in Critical Care

    Or you could practice on a friend or family member

  3. ECG help

    brownbook replied to Guest1030824's topic in Critical Care

    Practice placing leads or practice interpreting them? Placing leads on a drawing of a person...might be helpful. Actually you can just practice on yourself. Practice feeling and counting your own...

  4. ECG help

    brownbook replied to Guest1030824's topic in Critical Care

    There are 3, 5 and 12 lead EKG's. The basic is the 3 lead, the 5 and 12 give a more three dimensional look at the heart's electrical activity. Youtube has excellent videos on all of them. Knowing...

  5. Why did you choose your specialty?

    brownbook replied to MarkMyWords's topic in General Nursing

    Your question is confusing to me. Does having an interest, or disinterest, in an ethics course have something to do with why a nurse chose what area of nursing to work

  6. ICU New Grad, Paying For Classes Before Orientation

    brownbook replied to rnbella39's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe your facility doesn't have a union? Or it depends on what state you live in? Every hospital I've worked in if a training or certification or class is required for you to continue to work there,...

  7. Suicidal thoughts every week before first shift

    brownbook replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    In what alternate reality do you live in where you think everyone else is coping normally after nursing school? Just put something like "new nurse miserable" in the search box. You'll get thousands...

  8. Quarantined Nurse’s Scorching Anti-CDC Rant Goes Viral

    brownbook replied to MunoRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I really like it when I learn, understand why, a belief I held was wrong, or I wasn't see both sides of an issue. Do you mean; "When government is stockpiling, that is shocking." Is it shockingly...

  9. So tired of body fluids and hands on care?

    brownbook replied to Coffeelover's topic in General Nursing

    Just start looking and applying. There are 1000's of different areas of nursing. Different clinics, out patient surgery, GI clinics. Peds and NICU, well.....there is but wiping but it's cute little...

  10. Quarantined Nurse’s Scorching Anti-CDC Rant Goes Viral

    brownbook replied to MunoRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thanks, all I wanted was facts. Could you direct me to the news article about the government, including the CDC, was stockpiling PPE and not providing it to bedside nurses until

  11. Quarantined Nurse’s Scorching Anti-CDC Rant Goes Viral

    brownbook replied to MunoRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I love hyperbole as much as you. But when you're posting about a critical situation, serious information, you lose your audience by using hyperbole. In what universe, in what alternate reality, in...

  12. Nurses with ADD (inattentive ADHD)

    brownbook replied to RubellaFella's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, I just now "broke" my desk top computer settings. Suddenly it's on Internet Explorer and I can't get Chrome 10. If you can help with that you're a miracle

  13. Nurses with ADD (inattentive ADHD)

    brownbook replied to RubellaFella's topic in General Nursing

    Dear DavyDo, I love your advice to RubellaFella. I love all your advice and humorous posts. BUT in the name of all the pitty's I've owned and loved since 2004 I have to speak up against negative...

  14. Resting Up For Night Shifts

    brownbook replied to Mya K. Brewster's topic in General Nursing

    I worked 11 pm to 7 am 32 hours a week for 17 years. I think just adding one extra 8 hour shift a week would have made it much harder. I handled it quite well both mentally and physically. I'm...

  15. COVID-19: Are Nurses Essential Employees?

    brownbook replied to mimibrown's topic in Disaster Preparation

    First of all. Take deep breath. You are not alone. Every one of your fellow nurses is worried, has serious to minor reasons why staying overtime at work would adversly affect them or their loved...

  16. Nurses who have a dog?

    brownbook replied to rnstu20's topic in General Nursing

    Assuming you already have a dog? How long have you owned this dog? Big, medium, or small dog. Would it have access to a yard or patio? What is the dog's temperament? Has it been left alone

  17. Really America?

    brownbook replied to GrumpyRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just who I want for a neighbor, a frightened, paranoid, first time gun owner. Makes me feel so

  18. Really America?

    brownbook replied to GrumpyRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have no problem with owning a gun. My exMarine husband has one, in a locked case, bullets are in another location. I support red flag laws, licensing of gun owners, background checks, etc. But when...

  19. NICU RN to day surgery?

    brownbook replied to grobertson10's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with Rose_Queen, being a circulator is out of the question. Pre-op and recovery in day surgery may be doable. All you can do is apply. Pre-op you start a lot of IV's, if you can say your...

  20. Would you help out at a hospital as a nursing student?

    brownbook replied to kitttyy's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Coming from working when AIDS was new and no one knew anything about it. I'd help out in a

  21. Really America?

    brownbook replied to GrumpyRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And a loaded

  22. Dream job in my hospital only offers night shift position should I do it?

    brownbook replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Visualize yourself happy, perky, good lifestyle, working 7am to 3, or 7, pm, on plain old boring med/surg, or wherever? Visualize yourself happy? Perky? Good lifestyle? Maybe not so much? Working 7,...

  23. COVID-19: Droplet precautions not airborne

    brownbook replied to RNgirl25's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Everything I have heard and read recommends only droplet

  24. Thieves! Stealing Supplies During COVID-19 Crisis

    brownbook replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank goodness due to our constitution and three branches of government our president does not really have that much power. (I don't thing Trump or his supporters understand this, (after four years...

  25. Thieves! Stealing Supplies During COVID-19 Crisis

    brownbook replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Can we please leave discussions about covid 19 to scientific medical facts. Unless Trump suddenly becomes a dictator and kills all the staff at the CDC, Dr. Fauci, etc., apolitical calmer heads need...