JoeTheNurse

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1. Not a poop or pee nurse?!?

   JoeTheNurse replied to thumperRN's topic in General Nursing

   Where can I get a job with a nurse/patient ratio of 1 to 4? This nurse would not get away with this with our team.

2. How far do you commute to work?

   JoeTheNurse replied to flowerchick's topic in General Nursing

   Sixteen miles door-to-door...all highway!

3. The Today Show

   JoeTheNurse replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

   Pretty much all our student nurses wear whites...so whites would be out for the staff. If solid colors became manditory we would be putting allot of uniform places out of business, at least those selling lots of print tops. I'm not wearing the hat!

4. hospital nursing!!!

   JoeTheNurse replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

   I had been out of clinical nursing for 30 years before I went back just 2 months ago. I had actually retired from an occupational health career and found myself bored so I took a 200 hour RN refresher course, a 35 hour IV Therapy course and my BLS....

5. This Should Make You Feel Good About How Much $$$ You Make

   JoeTheNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Katie (CBS Nightly News) was talking about Ford's offer to buy out some 75,000 employees. She ended the story by saying that the average Ford employee makes $65.00 per hour...

6. Dealing with death

   JoeTheNurse replied to savealife's topic in General Nursing

   I to dealt with death while in Vietnam, almost every day (at least it fealt that way), I was an Army combat medic. The problem with seeing so much death is that you become hardened to a point where you find it dificult to show some empathy and/or co...

7. Dealing with death

   JoeTheNurse replied to savealife's topic in General Nursing

   Savealife, There is certainly a wealth of good advise here...that's what is so great about this forum. You said "Both times I have taken this home with me and brewed for days over it". I know this is easier said than done but try to leave work at t...

8. i'm really angry.. should i be??

   JoeTheNurse replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

   I bet that if the the orderly new from the begining that "if he the patient did bleed again, it wouldn't be a little trickle, it would be a big gush and that people could die from nosebleeds very quickly" he would have had that patient in a wheelchai...

9. Hello to everyone! medication resource question...

   JoeTheNurse replied to RNmom08's topic in General Nursing

   Skyscape.com offers a computer and PDA version of the Davis Drug Guide for Nurses. If you buy the PDA version, they throw in the computer version for free.

10. What Kind of Insurance?????

    JoeTheNurse replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    Wow...$300 for $300,000 of coverage! Proliability.com charged me $100 for $1,000,000/$6,000,000. That for Florida (Gulf Coast)