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    How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

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    How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Let's review: I post that this overconcern about fat nurses giving weight loss advice is weird and that we should focus on other things, unintentionally making a pun in the process. BrandonLPN...
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    Interventions without MD orders

    hiddencatRN replied to Novo's topic in General Nursing

    I'm confused as to how you've managed to get through 2 years of nursing school before realizing that you will be practicing as a nurse when you
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    How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    What is up with this site and the fat nurse giving weight loss advice issue? This is almost as hashed out as the ADN vs BSN debates. Is there really an epidemic of fat nurses working in weight loss...
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    Baby Friendly- getting a tad over the top

    hiddencatRN replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    So....one response about this and that's it? It was poorly designed...but also the first look at sibling groups as an attempt to control for the many, many confounding factors that plague other...
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    Dizzy during circumcision

    hiddencatRN replied to RavensNation's topic in General Students

    It was in a huge teaching hospital known for being a baby factory. No one batted an eye so I didn't get the impression that it was an uncommon practice there. But it's not my specialty and I only saw...
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    Dizzy during circumcision

    hiddencatRN replied to RavensNation's topic in General Students

    Sometimes :-/ The one I saw was
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    Yet another interruption on nights

    hiddencatRN replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    Uh, who is going to do quality control to make sure the noc QC nurse is actually going in to rooms and not just taking the primary nurse's word for it?
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    Dizzy during circumcision

    hiddencatRN replied to RavensNation's topic in General Students

    Idk esme12, maybe you're not cut out for it at all
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    Describe your 10/10 pain. Piggybacking off of recent pain discussions.

    hiddencatRN replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    I think most people actually think in terms of "little, medium, a LOT" of pain. And usually my pain med orders also reflect that (x for moderate pain, y for severe pain). I also think that patients...
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    Would you be insulted by this?

    hiddencatRN replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

    Now now, no need to drag the awesome cheesy swag in to this. I love my salad container with built in fork and dressing compartment. It makes it all
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    Let's talk: Nursing Shortage?

    hiddencatRN replied to Yellow90's topic in General Nursing

    I had to double check the date of the op to make sure this thread wasn't a few years old :-/ It's been rough for a while now. I remember stressing over it a ton when I was in
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    Dizzy during circumcision

    hiddencatRN replied to RavensNation's topic in General Students

    Really? You don't remember getting excited to see new things in nursing
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    Current and former sacred cows in nursing

    hiddencatRN replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in General Nursing

    I work in general Peds with a large sickle cell population and we routinely give transfusions to bigger kids in 24g IVs too. We just make sure to ask for the smaller RBCs
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    Dizzy during circumcision

    hiddencatRN replied to RavensNation's topic in General Students

    Watching a circumcision was the only time I felt faint during nursing school.....and I watched a c section where the spinal stopped working halfway through. I think you'd just get used to it and not...
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    Would you deliver your baby at your place of employment?

    hiddencatRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    Nope nope nope. I did pick my hospital for my DD's care. But my privates are private and not for coworkers to be all up
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    Being a Mom and a Nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to laurafegs's topic in General Nursing

    I work weekend nights and DH works every other weekend. We have a regular babysitter who comesfor overnight on those weekends we both work. I wonder if home based daycare or a sitter might be a more...
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    Shocked by facial piercings at work

    hiddencatRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Here you
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    Relocating to Chicago from Philadelphia...

    hiddencatRN posted a topic in Illinois Nursing

    Hi Illinois nurses! DH are planning to relocate to Chicago from the Philadelphia area in the next year or two. I have 2.5 years of RN experience now in pediatrics (ER and medsurg) so by the time we...
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    Relocating to Chicago from Philadelphia...

    hiddencatRN replied to hiddencatRN's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Thanks, that's very helpful. I already do have a BSN: since Philly is such a BSN preferred market, I opted to get one initially instead of the ADN first. I didn't think to check non children's...
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    Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    hiddencatRN replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This thread is nearing its 3rd birthday. I know I would hate to be taken to task for something I said 3 years
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    Thoughts of a Student Nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to AJ2016's topic in Pediatric

    Parents.
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    Co-worker asked how much I make an hour

    hiddencatRN replied to coffeeSTAT's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Or we could
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    Co-worker asked how much I make an hour

    hiddencatRN replied to coffeeSTAT's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'd like to point out that keeping salaries confidential benefits the employer because it weakens our bargaining power for salaries and raises when we don't know where we stack up. So while I don't...
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    Anyone work with NPs who deal with actual emergencies?

    hiddencatRN replied to rse3's topic in Emergency

    I used to want to be an ER NP until I saw that they essentially do fast track and ortho stuff. At my ER if they see a sicker patient they're acting more in a resident function than as an independent...