lauralassie

had a couple different nursing students say: "well, i'm going to school so i don't have to do bed side nursing". one even told me she want to work in plastic surg. office, not at the bed side. o.k. , i'm an "old nurse...47 yrs old", but when i wen...

A question for all of you Surgical/urology nurses out there. I have a friend that's an MA in a urology office. It's been so long since I really worried about the sterilization of equipment that I'm not up to date. (spoiled working in an ER or ICU ,...

o.k. i've given this new nurse manager a chance. she's been on the unit over 2 months, sits across from staff she's never met but, has yet to intoduce herself. has plenty of time to change a schedule that was already out, didn't have the new schedu...

O.K. our nursing license in Ohio says, "The profession of Nursing". :mortarboard: However, I am looking for a new job and several places list nursing in their own catagory, not under professional. Social workers, IS people are under professional c...

"I need to git her back right now, she has sick as Hell anemia !" " I get my STD from Zoloft". When questioning her about why she got the STD from Zoloft, she said, "well , it said on TV , that it causes sexual side effects". God , grant me serenit...

When I worked ICU, the one who "red - lined" the chart at the end of the shift , signed it : dated and timed it , was the one resp. for being sure that the order were done correctley. It's unfair for the charge RN to be respon. for that, unless they...

Not so, DO's actually go to school longer than MD's . If you actually sit atnd look at class time , internship etc,,, DO's do more time. But, they get payed the same. Besides, all I was really saying was that this discussion is getting old. The physi...

Seen new nurses do stupid things, just remember to protect yourself and you pt. If she happens to contract aids or whatever, she will not be covered by the hospital for treatment, if they prove she didn't wear gloves. You'll see all kinds of things...

You know , I remember the days that there was a ginormous discussion about Osteopathic Dr's and MD. Was one better then the other, were DO's just MD flunkies, DO's arn't trained like MD's. DO's , do weird medicine, I wouldn't send a dog to a DO. Heck...

It's everywhere. I've seen med surg nurses float to our unit and some nurses are nasty. But, it's not the med surg nurse. Those nurses are always nasty. It also works the other way, some med surg nurses are nasty when we float. Seems they always...

It's your choice for the loans. Shouldn't get paid more because you chose one rout over another. By-the-way. I went to a diploma school, we had all of our classes from a major university. Yes , the classes were tough. But, I can't speak to other ...

We've decided in our ER that ACLS should no longer include ABC's it should be DABC. Because our director is nuts about pt's being given DVD players in triage and in the pt care area's. She calls to be sure we giving them out. Then they want us to a...

"They didn't even give me a meal tray in triage". The pt was in for abd pain. Granted the pain was due to gas but, non the less, we didn't know that in traige. "The guy beside me got IV dilauda, I didn't get any" "I would have even taken the geriatr...

Maybe he has worked in an ICU where everyone has major lines, if you have plenty of lines you don't have much of a chance to start IV's. Lines are usually the first thing that goes in at our unit. But, if I were him I wouldn't have admitted that, I...

I like what msadn said. A good point was made. By the time I finish my BSN, I will well surpass the amt of credits, classes and clinical hours that the typical BSN progam RN has. Therefore, should I get the better jobs and get paid more because I t...

Just because you go to larger hospitals doesn't mean you had better experiences. I went to a diploma school. We went to different cities for various clinicals (peds, psych etc) but it was useless. The better experience actually came from the local...

The ANA is a mess, red tape, legilation that is usless, a lot of people that think they are important. Mean while, nurses are drowning in an overloaded, law suit burdened system that leaves nurses out to hang while they get perks that none of us wil...

It never fails to amaze me that it seems so many BSN nurses mention "bed side nursing " like it is the lowest of jobs you can have. I've done upper admin, bed side and nursing education CQI. Just let me say, bed side nursing requires more skill tha...

Yes, ouch is right. I had (or continue to have) it. I also did the exercises mention above, I went to a store call "good feet" . Got shoe inserts, went to the podiatrist, who did injections into the foot , just enough that I could walk without yellin...

Don't worry too much about it. If the lady were normal she would have told you she had the lock. I work ER, one time I sent an inmate back to jail with a lock in. He was such a pain to take care of , the formost thing on my mind was getting him ou...

A Bart Simpson doll up the anus. It was the best Xray I've ever seen. You could see his hair and arms open wide , like he was yelling ' get me out of here!"

Not sure about Zoloft generic form. But something kind of funny happened concerning the side effects of Zoloft. I was triaging one day. When I asked the pt what she was here to be seen for she said, "I have an STD because I take gereatric Zoloft."...

Sorry your going through this. I've been in critical care for many years. Once in a while I get really burnt out doing that kind of care. Many people don't do well, we don't see a lot of recovery. If pt's do recover we never see it . I can always tel...

Yes , for the most part I love taking care of pt's. I love the challenge involved with critical care nursing. I always have to be ready for anything. I also have those days that I can't wait to get home and hate to go back. But , that is the way i...

When you get your NP you'll get payed more. Don't care, and I mean don't care what or how many degrees you have. If you can't stand beside me in a critical situation and know what your doing, or take care of multiple pt's that flow endlessly into an ...