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  1. Success with going back to old career?

    brownbook replied to psychRN136's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry for what you are going through. It sounds tough. If nothing pans out in returning to accounting maybe put some effort into looking for other career opportunities for a nurse with...

  2. Would you say anything?

    brownbook replied to Ambersmom's topic in General Nursing

    I'd say something. A patient I had for a different issue told me he was an art teacher. He did nude modeling and a student told him to have a mole on his back checked. It was a melanoma caught early....

  3. My Body Is Not My Resume: Exploring Nursing Dress Codes

    brownbook replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Logic and human emotions are so crazy. I think I could accept a health care professional with tattoos, facial jewelry etc. since I'd have the knowledge to know if they were competent, and overlook...

  4. We fail our old people and it's heartbreaking

    brownbook replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing to do with anything specific. But my husband worked for Adult Protective Services for a few years. There was an elderly couple who someone (adult children? neighbors?) reported them to be...

  5. Should you work as a CNA/Tech before or during nursing school

    brownbook replied to Beautiful_Beginnings's topic in General Students

    Yes in the ideal world. If you can work part time, if your manager understands you're a student and they will be flexible with your schedule, etc., I think it is a big help for future

  6. Nurses aren't maids!

    brownbook replied to AnaCatRN's topic in Private Duty

    I think I was fascinated by CC7's post. I really tried to read it all. But I simply can't read long posts that don't have paragraphs. Can someone smarter than me explain why that

  7. PRN or Quit all together

    brownbook replied to LonghornChic's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, if your new job is Monday to Friday 8 am to 6 pm you won't have much extra home time? If you can afford it a benefited part time position where you currently work makes more

  8. Baffled.

    brownbook replied to SilenceintheLibrary's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly it sounds like me with my family. I finally decided to simply keep my mouth shut and be oh so ever polite. It's worked well for me. As long as a patient's life is not in danger your welcome...

  9. Trump Admin Will Protect Health Workers Who Refuse Services On Religious Grounds

    brownbook replied to herring_RN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    As you noted since 1964 employers can't demand staff perform or assist with abortions. I don't understand where religion comes into assisting with gender change surgery? If I can cite religious...

  10. What is it like changing people?

    brownbook replied to Skippy97's topic in General Nursing

    All good advice. However changing incontinent adults can be hard. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I never had to do it frequently, so when I did it took me a long time, I made a mess of it, and me...

  11. Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    brownbook replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how you can work as a health care provider and be that bothered by smells. What do these people do,when heaven forbid a patient is incontinent? Vomit and GI bleeders smell really bad...

  12. Fairness

    brownbook replied to Hink12's topic in General Nursing

    After your schedule is out they change it? Or they make the new schedule without bothering to acknowledge certain days you can't work? Either one is wrong. As long as you are not asking to never...

  13. Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    brownbook replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, thanks to a few recent fake posts on Allnurses I have learned to check the name of the poster. I even made a list of posters I know are trolls or agitators. But Klone! This has to be "fake...

  14. Can I still become a nurse after being diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos?

    brownbook replied to britebeads's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Your post surprised me. A distance relative has an unfortunately more severe type of Elher Danlos. It is so rare. I'm sorry for what you're dealing with. I know little about whether or not nursing...

  15. Med surg/tele new grad to ophthalmology ambulatory surgery center

    brownbook replied to Katya944's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with rubyvee. Also as you guessed working in an ambulatory eye clinic will limit your

  16. Best route to PACU/Outpatient Work

    brownbook replied to jj16's topic in PACU

    Also there are a lot of out patient GI clinics with good hours. Many are part of ambulatory surgery clinics or you may be able to transition from a GI clinic to a ambulatory surgery

  17. IV Bolus

    brownbook replied to mariok's topic in General Nursing

    I would go back to the doctor and tell them to write how much fluid to bolus and over how many minutes or hours. As others have said, it can be a liter at the highest rate your pumps go, or 250...

  18. IV left in arm after discharge

    brownbook replied to mariok's topic in General Nursing

    I'm assuming it was a saline lock, not the whole IV tubing and a bag of fluid????? In out patient surgery it occurs at least once a year, saline locks, not the whole tubing and bag. It has never...

  19. Are you discerning with your "likes"?

    brownbook replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guilty, usually on threads that are, or have become very humorous, of speed reading and liking every post. I'm to lazy to look up and go to every post of someone I've liked or who has liked me. I...

  20. Birds of a feather

    brownbook replied to AutumnApple's topic in General Nursing

    I like your posts, and love the Captain Obvious award. I think I like sarcasm too much, probably a psych issue/virus I got from rounding on our locked psych facility when I was night supervisor....

  21. Birds of a feather

    brownbook replied to AutumnApple's topic in General Nursing

    Of course not all psych nurses are mentally unstable. But I do believe (the myth?), that some nurses with mild to moderate mental illnesses are more interested in pursuing psych nursing. In general I...

  22. Do you buy medical equipment for home use?

    brownbook replied to der_kerl's topic in General Nursing

    I have a simple over the counter BP monitor for my husband who goes through obsessive compulsive phases over his blood pressure. I had to lie to him occasionally about the readings because if it...

  23. Nursing from 0

    brownbook replied to LegoLand's topic in General Nursing

    I was in your shoes. Started nursing prerequisites at 28 absolutely positive I'd flunk any math, chemistry, hard science courses. Exactly like you I was mature, motivated, ready to concentrate. I got...

  24. Correct way to draw blood?

    brownbook replied to Flames9_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree, except every lab I've sent blood work to will inform me if the specimen is hemolyzed and will have to be

  25. Should I go for RN?

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

    I say give it a try. All your fears are exactly what I and probably 90% of every RN student felt. It is scary. With your experience as an LVN, and just "growing up" from a 20 year old to a 24...