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Wishing you both the very best, and THANK YOU and all staff other involved for the care you provided for Thomas Duncan.

Lol, no thanks. But I'm sure the pay would be great. Maybe if I brought my own Hazmat suit.

CNN reports that Texas Health Presbyterian is now short staffed because as many as 70 staff members are in self imposed quarantine. They are also preparing for the potential of more people becoming positive for Ebola Virus. Plus, people in the commun...

i Feel so bad for this poor nurse getting such backlash for traveling. There should have been CLEAR guidelines set. Was she placed in self imposed quarantine, or was she simply told to monitor her temperature? Was she even in direct contact with Thom...

I remember a few years ago during the H1N1 epidemic, we had a patient on our unit who was suspected to have it. We were provided with PAPRs (Infectious Disease PAPRs >> ILC Dover), and rotated that patient out so that it was fair for all staff ...

I am praying for the two nurses affected, and all other staff that were in direct contact with, and cared for Thomas Eric Duncan. These must be scary times for all of them. Meanwhile, if the stories on CNN are true, I really do hope that the nurses ...

I rarely ever comment, but I just wanted to clarify, her temperature was 99.5, which is NOT considered a fever. We do not know what her temperature was the previous other times she checked it, or even what her baseline temp was. A better way to self ...

I have to work tonight, not looking forward to it. Already packed extra clothes/food in anticipation of having to stay for a few days. The city has been threatening all day that the bridges might shut down if winds get up to 70mph, and if they do, I ...

When my father had to have emergency surgery, I agonized over finishing my shift or leaving. My family tried to downplay how serious the situation was because they knew that if they told me, I would've left right away, and they were concerned about m...

Last night while taking care of a patient, I was exposed to their bodily fluid. (I won't go into details, because it was kinda gross). I felt it hit my face, on my right cheek. I wasn't sure if it hit my eye or not, but immediately took my contacts o...

I already feel horrible because I know that I left my coworkers short staffed. I had all the intentions in the world of working today, but here's what happened: This morning in my sleep deprived state ( I had worked the past 2 nights), I decided it w...

Thank you everyone for your replies. I called my unit to see how things were going and they said that there were discharges so now census is low. So it turns out that if i had gone in tonight, someone would have ended up getting pulled to another uni...

I'm surprised at your hospital policy. i also work on BMT and EVERYONE wears isolation gowns (staff, family members, etc).Our unit is a locked unit, and before anyone can be let in, they need to put on an isolation gown. They are also required to scr...

I also live in NJ, however i work in Pennsylvania. When I first went for my job interview, I was asked to provide a Graduate Nurse License, which I had no clue what it was. They gave me information on how to go about applying for one. Basically you h...

Usually when you draw blood from a PICC line, you need to turn off all other IV fluids running through the PICC. The reason being, is that lab values can end up being inaccurate. The H&H was probably off because it was dilutional due to the fact ...

After years of working as a CNA and completing prerequisites, my mother just recently graduated from lpn school last august at the age of 55. now she's contemplating going back to school to get her rn! shes truly my inspiration. people always joke th...

im the same way, i leave my work shoes at work. who knows all the junk that gets on them in a 12hr shift?!? (lol, actually i DO know, thats why i dont take them home) i even wipe them down with saniwipes, but i still get paranoid... ~shakira

Granted I have only been a nurse for a year, but i find the whole idea of using the "race card" to advance professionally is ridiculous. Promotions should be based on merit ONLY. i would never cause a stink or become a "black b****" just because thin...

I understand completely what you are talking about. i work on a unit where for the longest time i was the only african american nurse working there (excluding the occasional pool nurse). i have experienced the looks of surprise when i have introduced...

i agree with the other posters that wearing your ring on your finger during work is an infection control risk. if you are concerned about losing your ring, or want to have it with you at all times, you can always wear it as a pendant around your nec...

i was also thinking along the lines of lab coats being an infection control issue. but maybe thats because i work on a closed unit that is somewhat different than the rest of the world. we get provided with scrubs, sort of like the or, and change fro...

i did, although the site does provide you with a lot of study material, i wasnt too fond of the questions. if ure taking kaplan, stick with it, it is very similar to the nclex in setting and they give you a lot of great tools to try and get to the ri...

hey i dont really post a lot, but i do visit regulalrly. heres a little background info on me: i sprained my ankle the 1st week of december, bad enough that i needed to go to the ER and get X-rays. the x-rays were negative and i called out the rest o...

i live in vineland, and i dont want to say anything bad about the hospital, just that it wasnt the place for me. most of the students that went to school with me ended up there, and my aunt also works there. from what she tells me, most of the new nu...

lol, i feel silly even posting this, but ever since i found out that i passed on sat, i find myself going back on the pearson vue website just to double check. lol, is this normal? does anyone else find themselves doing that? i have a feeling im goin...