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  1. Part time plus per diem?

    brownbook replied to jroll's topic in Nursing Career

    It doesn't make sense to me. What do you want, more hours but not having to be obligated to those shifts? If you like working part-time but are open to occasional extra shifts that is very doable....

  2. Germophobia

    brownbook posted a topic in General Nursing

    Re: recent post that pops up too often about wearing gloves as soon as you walk into a patient's room. Why become a nurse if you have germophobia? My son-in-law is a little weird....got his PhD...

  3. Germophobia

    brownbook replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for over 30 years. I think I had one cold in those 30 years. There are many times I know I should have gloved up, (after the fact), and didn't. Seventeen of those years in...

  4. Number of Lymph Nodes Removed?

    brownbook replied to DowntheRiver's topic in General Nursing

    I worked out patient surgery so the IV was just LR, access for propofol, versed, anesthesia drugs, and the IV came out 4 - 8 hours later. The surgeon in charge of the breast cancer clinic said a clean...

  5. Number of Lymph Nodes Removed?

    brownbook replied to DowntheRiver's topic in General Nursing

    Great question. Kind of confusing though. Do you mean guidelines on starting the IV in the same arm the lymph nodes were removed from? One to four is okay, over four isn't? If that is your...

  6. Horrifying medical quack info on the Internet

    brownbook posted a topic in General Nursing

    Because an Allnurse posted about medical bloopers on the movie Meg..."the patients gases were dropping"...."what all of them?" the poster responded. I got to thinking about ABG's. I've been out of...

  7. Horrifying medical quack info on the Internet

    brownbook replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a fan of chiropractors. But to be honest my one experience with one was for my mother-in-law. It was hard to convince her to see a doctor about her back pain. She did agree to try a...

  8. Stuck between a job I love and a place I love?

    brownbook replied to RNingBSNing's topic in General Nursing

    We can't decide for you. I moved back to my home town area. I had "fantasies" of socializing with my friends and family.....it didn't work out that way. Sure we see each other from time to time...

  9. Non-compatible meds w/double lumen

    brownbook replied to Ellee's topic in General Nursing

    Your question is stupid... because there are NO STUPID QUESTIONS! It took me waaaay to long as a new nurse, and several years experienced nurse, to learn this. I finally started asking my "stupid...

  10. Back to night shift...am I crazy?

    brownbook replied to cosmicmama's topic in General Nursing

    I worked nights 17 years...I consider myself very abnormal . Otherwise I agree with your

  11. Horrifying medical quack info on the Internet

    brownbook replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    I love The Simpsons.... now I know why Abe Simpson always talks about when he wore an onion on his

  12. Are nurses smarter than resident physicians?

    brownbook replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in General Nursing

    This really hurts. The first thing I did this morning was lay on my rug hugging my pitbull and rubbing his belly. We've owned pitbulls for 15 years. The unconditional love they, and almost all...

  13. Hate night shifts

    brownbook replied to RN&RDH's topic in General Nursing

    Just apply for day shift, and keep applying. I worked nights 17 years. I had no desire to switch to days and many of my fellow nighters had worked as long, or longer, on nights as me. We were all...

  14. Weekend Work

    brownbook replied to LemonDrop1234's topic in Operating Room

    I'm confused, do you want to work OR, weekends only. Or do you want any nursing job where you can work weekends

  15. Horrifying medical quack info on the Internet

    brownbook replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, something good came out of this. I am running out of books to read. I will probably still see Meg when it's on Netflix. I love disaster movies, even though most of them are pretty

  16. Michigan hospital sued after honoring woman's request for "white nurse only"

    brownbook replied to klone's topic in Nursing News

    I wasn't working the night it happened. Many years ago we had a patient in ICU who didn't want a black nurse......ha ha. The staff that night just happened to be 3 black nurses plus a black...

  17. How did you know when your specialty was THE one

    brownbook replied to K.Alva's topic in General Nursing

    I never felt AH. I was there to do a job and pay the mortgage. I never hated the job. Certainly you need to stay in NICU around a year to know if you love it, or it pays the bills, or you hate it....

  18. Too nice? Where do you draw the line? Need advice

    brownbook replied to nursiee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sounds great, the word "yet" is my new favorite word.... I'm not assertive "yet". Every human being has character defects they are aware of and will be working on their whole life. It's usually,...

  19. I'm Proud of Being "Just" an O.R. Nurse

    brownbook replied to ctsurgeryscrubrn's topic in Operating Room

    I immediately think of a male nurse saying..."I was offended, the patient thought I was a doctor". But I'm old and it's still hard to not stereotype. The female male carrier was walking up to our...

  20. Too nice? Where do you draw the line? Need advice

    brownbook replied to nursiee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If it was over a year ago....maybe the issue, problem, is not as bad as you posted or as bad as you perceive? I love the slogan...perception is not always reality. There are hundreds of good sites...

  21. Too nice? Where do you draw the line? Need advice

    brownbook replied to nursiee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with everything you say. The meaning of bullying is lost. I think you are mostly normal :). I am very similar, let things roll off my back....coworkers admire me in putting up with irate...

  22. Thinking outside the box

    brownbook replied to VagabondBryn's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    We need to know more. The worst case scenario is mild to moderate hand tremors....or more severe progressive total body weakness? Hopefully your neurologist is a good, therapeutic listener and...

  23. LPNs in the ER

    brownbook replied to amandab13's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I don't know any of the details, I was the house supervisor, but our ER had an "urgent care clinic" area for patients triaged as needing lesser care. We had LVN's staff that area, it worked

  24. Patient Compliance and Cancellations

    brownbook replied to Steve_Earnshaw's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I don't know exactly, but it shouldn't be that hard for your facility to come up with something. I just had a colonoscopy, I saw the doctor in his office a few days prior. He, the doctor himself,...

  25. What is a surgical clearance nurse?

    brownbook replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    I'm just guessing. It seems like it is more of a "chart check". Making sure all the labs, EKG's, echo, x-ray, etc., results are in the chart? If that's it, it seems like something a clerk or MA...