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  1. Multiple prn pain meds requested all at the same time

    brownbook replied to lots2care4's topic in Addictions

    I am not clear on why you posted this in addiction nursing? A patient in a SNF and under hospice care is not considered addicted to drugs! Your should go by what your supervisor told you...But I am...

  2. How frequently do you wake the patient in the recovery room?

    brownbook replied to raine22's topic in PACU

    Were you asked at a job interview or on a test? If it was a test I'd like to know the options, every 5 - 10 - 15 minutes? In a job interview I would say I would closely monitor the patient...as in...

  3. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    I repeat I have been re educated. That is language

  4. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    No I have been re educated it is language discrimination and you cannot correct them. I am so enlightened

  5. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    Ruby, I believe from what I've learned from my gracious Allnurses is that is language discrimination. Please re read the

  6. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all I will strive to do better in the future. This post has taught me a lot and changed my thinking 180

  7. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you I will strive to work on my listening

  8. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for educating me. I have never heard of language discrimination. I wasn't aware it had been an

  9. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for educating me. Until now I had never heard of language

  10. English As A Second Language

    brownbook replied to Santa Monica's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that nurse was horrible and wrong. I am proud of my limited ability to speak Spanish. My Anglo husband was raised in a small farming area and exposed to Spanish as a child. He took classes...

  11. Average amount of call time for OR nurses?

    brownbook replied to DesertSky's topic in Operating Room

    All I can say is it really varies. I worked PACU for a smaller acute care hospital so that might be different from an OR nurse. But nurses fought over my call time. They were all were money crazy...

  12. Need ALL the Help and Advice for IV Starts

    brownbook replied to RN329's topic in General Nursing

    Everybody learns differently. All the above suggestions are good. You will learn something from everyone, and everything you read, or see on YouTube. Some nurses who are on the IV team are so...

  13. Prerequisites and Nursing School?

    brownbook replied to rileowski's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I admire your eagerness. You should never stop learning, or reviewing, everything you studied in pre requisitets and the nursing program. All of A&P is important, that doesn't mean you have to...

  14. Is aspirin a blood thinner?

    brownbook replied to ChloeLissa's topic in Patient Medications

    Don't ask patients if they are taking blood thinners. The same way you don't ask patients if they are taking ACE inhibitors or beta blockers. Ask some variation of what pills they take daily, and...

  15. Do all nurses make fatal mistakes?

    brownbook replied to justtryintonurse's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to be so sarcastic in my reply.....but I restrained myself. I hate math and statistics, but I am pretty certain thousands more people die in car accidents each year than from nurses, and...

  16. help with issue

    brownbook replied to neuron's topic in General Students

    Ideally you make an appointment with her and say you don't feel supported when you are doing your clinicals and you have sent her E-mails and never gotten a reply. If she responds with specific...

  17. Float Pool (Clinical Support Team)

    brownbook replied to koverfel's topic in General Nursing

    I always loved floating. It was the "impostor syndrome". (I am making that up, no idea what the impostor syndrome is or what it means.) As a newish nurse, when I worked in my regular assigned, unit...

  18. I think I'm going to FAIL!!!

    brownbook replied to Gemini616's topic in General Students

    Is it something you can watch on YouTube? Youtube has excellent nursing educational

  19. What do you do when a patient refuses treatment and wants to go home?

    brownbook replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    I've read on other similar posts that if a patient signs an AMA form insurance won't cover their hospital bill. Not 100% sure if it's true? Health insurance is such a crazy upside down and...

  20. Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    brownbook replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Almost all the wealthy college educated parents I know have either inherited their wealth or have computer/technical jobs. Computer science majors require very few hard science courses beyond...

  21. Switching careers

    brownbook replied to 67karat's topic in Gastroenterology

    It just happened that the two different surgical centers I worked in also did GI, even with that I never met a circulating OR nurse who transitioned into GI. It was the other way around. Unless the...

  22. Switching careers

    brownbook replied to 67karat's topic in Gastroenterology

    I am doubtful to be honest. You can apply and see what happens. I'm not joking, have you had a colonoscopy, (at your age you should have)? Maybe schedule a colonoscopy and get chummy with the...

  23. Did Grey's Anatomy Get It Right With The Superhero Pose?

    brownbook replied to Michael M. Heuninckx's topic in General Nursing

    This is all very true. Unfortunately there is no one miracle "thing" that will change, improve, enhance, every bodies life all the time and forever. Sometimes these "gimmicks" are just a little...

  24. age 21

    brownbook replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Who and how it will be enforced are excellent questions. Realistically it won't be. I am to lazy to look up statistics but I think fewer Americans are smoking and I assume the flurry of laws has some...

  25. Inspiration. . .

    brownbook replied to wubbyyy's topic in General Students

    You don't give us much to go on, so I'm just throwing stuff out there. Maybe it seems overwhelming....take baby steps. I find motivation helps a lot. (Some call it bribery.) Drive to the school,...