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Stevierae, you are sooo kick-***!!

Where I work, as a general rule anesthesia and surgeons really don't like people to be on steroids before surgery, unless of course they are long time steroid users. Actually, I just had surgery (18 days post-op ACL I can not wait to go back to work...

General society does not know what the difference is between a LPN or an RN. They think "nurse" means registered nurse, look at studies it's a fact. When you tell people that you are a "nurse" they think they are getting something different then what...

Boy, what a heated thread! Ok, I work with some awsome CSTs and I work with some horrible ones too, just as I work with some awsome nurses and some terrible ones also. Carcha has said that CST's are here to stay, but personaly feels against them... ...

I cringe everytime I see a surgeon staple a drape to a patient, but by and large only our general surgeons do it. They say that sticky drapes just don't cut it and they want the towels to stay where they put them. We kid that a general surgeon can't ...

Boy, am I lucky! The very first day I was an RN I worked in the OR, and I love it! I can't imagine working anyplace else. I do work at a smaller hospital and have the blessing of doing everything and being fully supported while learning it all. I've...

Where I work the most sacred cows have to do with ortho cases... they just within the last year stopped making us put a total joint pt on the OR bed out in the hallway! Don't even get me stated on pouring water for the orthapods... talk about a Dr. h...

I went into the OR a little over a year ago, yep straight out of nursing school, and I love it. I do get a lot of flack (for being the baby mostly), but I also get a lot of support. I have no problem saying when I'm uncomfortable and need help, and y...

I too wrote a letter because of all the reasons everyone has said. We need to demand respect for our professions, other professions that require far less education and devotion would never be harpooned like ours is. Can you think of any other that is...

ANYTHING for stroke patients!! Water should not be able to hold the spoon straight up!!

What is the answer to case 6???? I'm dying to know... I think he has some sort of cervical injury and is at risk for losing his airway to swelling soon...

Weitlaner, weitlaner, weitlaner.... Do I work with you cause I have someone at work who has the exact same pet peeve=) I learned how to spell it and say it properly

ITSJUSTMEZOE you ROCK!!! JurbyJunk, don't go! Who is this women and can we go picket her and make HER life hell?

I'll never forget working on the medical floor as a CNA (lots o' deaths) and this family was sitting with the mother, waiting for her to die. Death was coming soon and everyone kept checking on them to see if they were ok... when I get this call at t...

Tried the alcohol pads and they totally work... everybody else thinks I'm crazy till they see it work... an old nurse also once had me swab a womens vagina with betadine sawbs for a yeast infection, and it worked!

Oh my.... how true!!! I had this cast today! Forever and forever and.......

Pretty nasty nursing you saw that day... You could consider this an ethical delemma (to get your homework done) because, do you say something to this nurse? To her supervisor? Just an idea, I know how hard it used to be to answer questions like that...

Wet, warm and not mine... I'm gloving up baby!! (heck even cold and not mine)

Do they need nurses at Disney? I'll work for free if that is my patient!!

My CNA class got our instructer fired... She did all the things you complained about and much more! My advice, do the best you can and read the book!! Oh and go to someone above her head, the whole class... they will listen.

At work we often discusse the grossest thing we have ever seen at work, well one nurse won hands down (even worse than the chicken feathers) She was taking care of a disoriented older man with many, many tubes from many, many places. Well he was NPO ...