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  1. Please Help! Abandonment and Retro Pay

    brownbook replied to YellowBirdz's topic in General Nursing

    Board Of Registered Nursing California Board of Registered Nursing BUSINESS, CONSUMER SERVICES, AND HOUSING AGENCY • GOVERNOR EDMUND G. BROWN JR. NPR-B-1 REAFFIRMED 4/1998 ABANDONMENT OF...

  2. Please Help! Abandonment and Retro Pay

    brownbook replied to YellowBirdz's topic in General Nursing

    I agree completely with Okami. Just Google California State BON...patient abandonment. It is there in black and white. You are lucky to be rid of that facility. It sounds awful. I would put...

  3. When was the last time you had to be assertive with a coworker?

    brownbook replied to KJRod's topic in General Nursing

    I am NOT assertive (I'm still working on it), I have NEVER been bullied by any health care

  4. Gave Blood transfusion too fast maybe?

    brownbook replied to Maria1308's topic in General Nursing

    The good and bad about the marvelous human body is that it can compensate to a SLOWLY declining hemoglobin. Thus patients can be alert and oriented with hemoglobins of 2 and 3, crazy as it

  5. Gave Blood transfusion too fast maybe?

    brownbook replied to Maria1308's topic in General Nursing

    Generally, approximately, the hemoglobin goes up one gram per unit of blood. The main siginificant effect of giving blood too rapidly is too much fluid for the body/heart/circulatroy system to handle...

  6. Medication administration confusion???

    brownbook replied to Mike DBD's topic in General Nursing

    Seems wrong to me. Is there any logical reason it is done this way? Something to do with LPN's? Can the LPN's even give the medications (I assume) I V push? All very confusing to

  7. Patients Say the Darnedest Things - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

    brownbook replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

    I had a 6 year old female patient for (I don't remember what) minor surgery in PACU. She was alert, I asked if she wanted her parents back. She politely said no. I didn't want to leave her, as I...

  8. RN to CST? Unheard of?

    brownbook replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    If your hospital would reimburse you for getting scrub tech certified I can't see any drawback. Some hospitals only have RN's scrub. Your other questions, I don't know the answer. You could post...

  9. Where do the nurses with the highest job satisfaction work?

    brownbook replied to juliacaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Finally someone nailed it, why floating is great. I love

  10. Where do the nurses with the highest job satisfaction work?

    brownbook replied to juliacaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Working ambulatory surgery. The patients aren't even sick, we're closed nights, weekends, and holidays. A good friend was a school nurse. She's a fun, easygoing person. Loved the hours, off all...

  11. Where do the nurses with the highest job satisfaction work?

    brownbook replied to juliacaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Are you the boss? I'm a little slow to get jokes.

  12. Garbage Report

    brownbook replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    This is the opposite. I worked ambulatory surgery the last 17 years. These are relatively "minor" surgeries on patients who do not, cannot, come here if they have serious, uncontrolled, health...

  13. Dealing with Guilt and Coping

    brownbook replied to clouds_creamy's topic in General Nursing

    At least you didn't go get a paper bag :). A CNA was helping in ICU, we had code, the very short resident asked for a stool, to stand on, he was eager to do compressions. The CNA had recently...

  14. Dealing with Guilt and Coping

    brownbook replied to clouds_creamy's topic in General Nursing

    I am many years experienced, many years of working ICU and taking ACLS, my trick to code blues is to hide in the linen closet . They are stressful. I think you did an amazing job. I am feeling...

  15. Starting my 40th year

    brownbook replied to kitty29's topic in General Nursing

    I've posted this many times. I was new to being the night supervisor. I was asked to do a yearly evaluation for a unit clerk. He was great, helpful, efficient, would frequently call me saying he...

  16. Kicked out for first practical exam fail

    brownbook replied to LMP908's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Okay, I have wasted so much time responding to "trolls" I am getting very leary. I can't understand any reason to kick you out for what you described. Sorry. Can you talk to a counselor or student...

  17. Labor and delivery?

    brownbook replied to KJRod's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a nursing student I thought what in the heck does a L & D nurse even do, that isn't even real nursing, the mom pushes the baby out, the doctor catches it????? Ten years later I was the...

  18. Q's;--Patient Attacks on Nurses

    brownbook replied to JoRose1's topic in General Nursing

    I worked 21 years acute care, smallish county hospital with an ER and locked psych facility. My husband was a psychiatric social worker. Neither he nor I have ever heard of any attacks against a...

  19. Kicked out for first practical exam fail

    brownbook replied to LMP908's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    This is so unbelievable I think you might be a troll. Either there are other issues you had with the CNA program, or you paid a lot of money for a private, for profit, school that is "ripping"...

  20. Don't know if I'm prepared enough to be a PCNA

    brownbook replied to Clucey's topic in General Nursing

    I am assuming PCNA means patient care nursing assistant? So you are in school just starting the prerequisites to become a RN? And you want to work as a PCNA now to get experience? I assume you will...

  21. Advice on my next steps from those who have gone before me...

    brownbook replied to LovegelatoRN's topic in Nursing Career

    Ambulatory surgery is nice. No weekends, no holidays, no call, pre-op nurses can be scheduled 6 to

  22. Made a mistake

    brownbook replied to Mjcrrrj's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you are a nervous wreck. I feel anxious just reading your post! Different "tricks" work at different times in my life. For some reason lately when I start to feel anxious, singing "Hello...

  23. PACU/Recovery room Visitors

    brownbook replied to cymrudenver's topic in PACU

    I'm totally guilty of allowing families back early and too many of them, when the unit census and patient acuity can accommodate them. But all it takes is a quick aside from the charge nurse that the...

  24. Lines-Please help

    brownbook replied to raspberry1's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, that's fair. Ha ha. He loaded them as badly backwards as person could. I smiled, said thanks, and reloaded it in the morning. Next time I said you're right, you're a better rinser, I'm a...

  25. Now that I'm an "old" nurse

    brownbook replied to Tasern1214's topic in General Nursing

    Let me know what hospital, surgical center, you work in so I, my family, or friends, never go there for surgery! For a surgeon to not mark his patient (if that is, as it should be, the policy)...