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  1. Should I go back to school?

    brownbook replied to Butterfliesnroses's topic in Nursing Career

    It will be very hard, but think of what great a role model you will be for the 10 year old, and even the little one when it gets

  2. PCT- OB/GYN

    brownbook replied to Taratims28's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I'm confused about the training a PCT goes through. Do you have any schooling or training in patient

  3. Does anyone here like nursing?

    brownbook replied to bluestar776's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, but a free supply of Xanax makes it all sooooo

  4. Does anyone here like nursing?

    brownbook replied to bluestar776's topic in General Nursing

    This site is a safe, easy, place to vent, complain, be snarky, etc. about your job and co-workers. Of course you are going to read how I hate my job stories. I've been married 47 years. If you...

  5. Float RN

    brownbook replied to AmiLeigh's topic in General Nursing

    You have so much varied experience, I feel like grasshopper giving advice to the teacher. (Do younger people know about young grasshopper?). I floated as a new, green as grass, ADN. I liked...

  6. Moderate Sedation Tips

    brownbook replied to 5h3ryL's topic in Gastroenterology

    OK, the competency test is all I was referring to. I made it sound fancier that it is. As long as you study up for the test and know the material you should be fine. I've been doing moderate...

  7. Moderate Sedation Tips

    brownbook replied to 5h3ryL's topic in Gastroenterology

    Every (all two of them, ha ha) facility I have done moderate sedation in required me to take a moderate sedation study course to be "certified". I hate looking up state guidelines and policies,...

  8. Hospital RN, to.....?

    brownbook replied to MNRN0809's topic in General Nursing

    OK, does your hospital have a float pool. It is a great way to find out what else is out there in the Great Wide World of Nursing Opportunities. Or simply offer to float when census is low....

  9. Therapeutic Gossip

    brownbook replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Gossip is not a four letter word. I am a very quiet, keep to myself, non self disclosing, person. My guilty secret is I love to hear gossip. I learn to look at people, situations, differently....

  10. Is it hard to get a job that isn't in a hospital?

    brownbook replied to caycayney's topic in General Nursing

    I know nothing of Australia. It can be easy, it can be near impossible. I worked acute care hospital for 17 years 11- pm to 7 am, and finally switched to day surgery, this was 17 years ago. But I...

  11. Nursing judgement in emergency situation without Dr.s order

    brownbook replied to Nocturnal123's topic in Patient Medications

    Yuck, yuck , and double yuck! I hate policies....yes technically you gave a medication without a doctors order. Ignore your supervisor, you know she is a CYA idiot. For future incidents, since...

  12. Has anyone here thought of switching to Sonography?

    brownbook replied to bluestar776's topic in General Nursing

    Yes waaaaay more areas you can work as a RN. I'd encourage you to go for

  13. Which Area Has the Most Compassionate Nurses

    brownbook replied to RNite's topic in General Nursing

    You seem to have found a job in a very toxic unit. In my 32 years of nursing in four different facilities and numerous different units within those facilities, I have never seen the type of...

  14. Has anyone here thought of switching to Sonography?

    brownbook replied to bluestar776's topic in General Nursing

    You post that you are currently a sonographer who is having trouble seeing images on larger patients. I assume that is not an unusual problem, maybe you could get hints from co-workers about how to...

  15. Tell the family this ??

    brownbook replied to peterboy22's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I am sorry for your loss. Please seek the help of a therapist. And, or, call the hospice facility that was caring for your father. Tell them you have a lot of questions about how your father's death...

  16. Responsibilities and tasks when receiving a new patient to the unit

    brownbook replied to Jyj5050jyj's topic in General Nursing

    Everywhere I've worked has a standard admit form on paper or on computer the admitting nurse completes. It pretty much covers everything you need to do. A nurse new to the unit would receive training...

  17. Headache Resolved After Removal of JP Drain. How did that happen?

    brownbook replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in Neurological

    It is not my area of expertise, but it is some what common for patients to get spinal headaches if there is leakage of spinal fluid for any reason, after any type of spinal treatment or spinal injury....

  18. Frustrated and Lost

    brownbook replied to Genafaggion's topic in Nursing Career

    Are you married or in a serious relationship, have children, are you paying off a car or student debt, do you own a home? Theses are all big factors in how much leeway you have to explore new...

  19. Float vice versa Floor/ER

    brownbook replied to al3x117's topic in General Nursing

    Some hospitals have a regularly scheduled float pool. The nurses are scheduled specific hours a week. You may be the first cancelled, how often that happens can really vary. Some hospitals cross...

  20. why keppra is administered in 15 mins??

    brownbook replied to postin1217's topic in General Nursing

    I was also curious, although I've never given keppra. I thought maybe the poster wanted to know what the urgency about within 15 minutes was. I think it would be helpful if the manufacture warnings,...

  21. Amniotic Fluid Embolism Patient - I wouldn't wish it on any nurse.

    brownbook replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was the night shift supervisor (of course that's when it happens) at a small county hospital. The same incident but unfortunately both mother and baby died. I had worked almost all units of the...

  22. Perioperative position advice

    brownbook replied to Mickeylaw's topic in PACU

    All I can think of is PACU nurses have to be on call. Ask about the on call scheduling, when will you as a new PACU nurse be expected to take call by

  23. DNA testing for proper diet for you

    brownbook replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    There have been some interesting evidenced based scientific studies that showed some evidence that a native indigenous population's microbiome was uniquely adapted to the whatever was readily...

  24. Don't clean up patient after a code

    brownbook replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is a little off topic. But I think the question has been answered with no dissent. An elderly man came via ambulance CPR in progress, coded a short time in ER and code called. Family came, saw...

  25. What is a Sugar Cleanse and Do I Need It?

    brownbook replied to Carol Ebert's topic in General Nursing

    Any how.....I think you need to define sugar! Sugar is the generic term for soluble carbohydrates. Simple sugars, monosaccharides, including glucose also known as dextrose, fructose, and galactose....