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I just had my pre-employment physical for my nursing job i start as a graduate nurse (rn) in july. literally my dream job, peds med/surg and oncology. anyway, the MD told me he is going to place a restriction on me until i can get documentation that ...

at first your question had me confused...but now i see your point. damned if you do, damned if you don't. good luck with your dilemna.

hypothetical situation..... does anyone WEAR gloves while drawing blood, doing IV's..but tear the finger off cause it's just too much of a PITA to try and feel a little baby vein through a layer of latex/vinyl?? totally hypothetical, i swear....

bwahahaha!!!:rotfl:

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Kristy..... yes i work in peds...grown up's scare me! and I only wash them if there are visible stains on them..... :chuckle job security ya know....

my neighbor told me once my closet looked like the disney store threw up in it. yes, i have spongebob scrubs. Kick me off the board! i also have tigger and pooh, mickey, tinkerbell, rubber ducks, dinosaurs, turtles, ladybugs, bob the builder, bugs, b...

orientation for 12 weeks on my pedi. onc. floor....then a 2 day chemo class... then the test....and now we just get our meds double signed, which is standard practice. but before our chemo class...didn't touch the stuff..which was fine with me. now i...

Party on, my friend.

Here's the tequila paula, i left you the worm....... Guys..why do all the doctors think they are better than me?? I mean, they only had a LITTLE more training.....

you know those small plastic cups, the 120cc ones? we take those, cut them in half, put cloth tape around the sharp edges, and voila, a little iv house. slap a sticker over it and they are customized lol. easily lifts up to check out the site underne...

I sent one of my babies from work down to the PICU from our unit....supposedly just another RSV+, intubate for a little while to give her a break, then she'd be back. I find out yesterday she has non-HIV PCP pneumonia, is on an ossilator (sp) and the...

Thank you for choosing your local Walmart, how can i help you? not glamourous, but a no-brainer job that gave me a little cash in my pocket and still time to study lol

If i take a travel assignment, can i stay in pediatrics? or do i have to work where they tell me?

private room...definately. (even though, unfortunatly, my floor being a part heme-onc floor, our few privates we try to keep open for F & N and isolation purposes). if someone wants to pay for a private, then by all means, knock yourself out. but...

sjoe you certainly are passing out a lot of crap lately, more like forcing it on the rest of us, so we really don't have a choice as to how much we take. IMO, a kid who's parents make no money deserves the exact same care and compassion as a kid who...

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on our unit VIP rooms mean we have to brown out the bed next to them so they don't get a roommate. Fortunately being peds we dont get them very often.

Hey guys, i just want your opinion on something...... i work pediatrics, and for a while it has been routine to WAKE the kids up at 0530-0600 ish to draw their labs, then send them back to bed. What do you guys do? I'm currently on a stretch of night...

Hey Brian~! pull up a chair and grab a margarita!

nope, just know where to look it up shoudl you need to know it.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anne.... i do'nt know what it is, but it is a rarity for one of the kids to be awake during the night. i'm not saying we don't do anything, we have PLENTY to do, but for the most part we can sneak around and do it while the kiddos are sleeping. We ar...

hello from western new york............ this is me, wishfully thinking!!!!!!!!!

in pediatrics....the family members are definately worse than the patients...