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  1. You may be working in a redneck hospital if...

    20. Your OR cap has a John Deere patch sewn to the front. 21. There's a gun check right next to the information desk. 22. A patient has ever actually held on to a rifle long enough to have it pried from his cold dead hands, and his family considered ...
  2. Uniforms.. color scrubs vs whites

    I may not need a certain outfit to express my professionalism, but I also don't need clothes to express my individuality- my personality and behavior do that. I'm in the camp that says that uniforms are a tool, a way of announcing yourself before you...
  3. Hilton Head Hospital uniforms

    A lot of public elementary and high schools are also implementing uniforms now, or at least stricter dress codes. In general, all over the place, there seems to be a desire to bring back some of the formality that was lost in the last few decades. I ...
  4. How to deal with PCA bad attitude

    It makes me wonder why someone like that would even become a PCA. I never understand why such hateful people choose work that requires people skills and a caring attitude.
  5. do nurses eat their young

    I've seen so many cranky nurses who take out their unhappiness on nurses, doctors, patients, anybody who walks into view. It's like, if they're not happy, nobody can be happy. And a lot of them feel the need to beat the enthusiasm out of new nurses. ...
  6. Wrong reasons

    Not long ago, there was an ad running on t.v. around here for an LPN program. It opened with a woman in a business suit saying to a woman in scrubs, "Wow, you lok comfortable!" and the woman in scrubs went on to explain that she's an LPN. The ad went...
  7. Wrong reasons

    Two different ads, same school. Perk, yes. I'm sure a lot of women got into nursing "back in the day" because they were imprssed by the old uniform. But primary reason for going into the field? Noooooooooooooooooooo.
  8. Parents of kids with autism, please read

    Oh, look, Rush Limbaugh's doing the same thing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15408508/ "Possibly worse than making fun of someone's disability is saying that it's imaginary. That is not to mock someone's body, but to challenge a person's guts, integri...
  9. Is there power in the color white?

    Food point. And not just different types of work, but different communities, too. Different groups of people will have different impressions of your uniforms.
  10. "sister" = registered nurse

    I'm pretty sure they still are! :) I always figured the Aussie "sister" thing was partly a throw-back to the days when a great many nurses were women of religious vows, and also a throw-back to the days when aligning nurses with religious women appea...
  11. I didn't know this actually happened

    She might not have been a drama queen. She might have just been uneducated or just really panicked, especially if it was her first baby and she was alone at the time.
  12. Oooh, I know a woman who used to work PICU and became possibly the most over-protective mother I have ever seen. Then again, her kids are all happy and healthy and haven't been hit by a bus or anything like that. I'd say your fears are pretty normal.
  13. When I was in college, I knew students who found ways to get food stamps, not because they came from struggling families, but because they had a limited budget and wanted to save their own money for other things, like beer. One guy I knew who did thi...
  14. I failed the interview personality test/survey!

    Gawd, I hate those things. I don't think the test is really about the sated questions at all, but rather about your ability to figure out what answer the employer wants you to give. And anyone can figure out what answer would be considered "right" an...
  15. Is there power in the color white?

    About the hats: The really old school hats were actually practical- they covered your hair. Somehow, they were gradually reduced to something merely ornamental. I guess today's equivalent of the old caps would be an OR cap. Or, a bandana, I guess. Or...
  16. How was she not fired for that?!? It's got to be illegal, not to mention, you know, dangerous.
  17. Are you my waitress today?

    And then there's the other extreme, with the idea of nurses as something like nuns. There is some precedence for this one, though: there are nuns who are also nurses, and, in fact, the concept of the nursing sister is so embedded in Australian cultur...
  18. Are you my waitress today?

    "Only if you're planning to tip me 15% of your total hospital bill!"
  19. Is there power in the color white?

    No one ever likes to admit that appearances matter, but they do. By "appearances" I don't mean how pretty you are, but rather what your physical appearance conveys, and that includes whatever message is presented by your clothes. Uniforms say "I'm of...
  20. So, what do you guys do when your cow-irkers do this stuff? Is your first inclination to smack them in the head and yell, "What are you thinking?!?", or do you go tell the boss? Seriously, do you feel comfortable stepping up and saying something when...