GardenDove

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  1. Frustrated and Need Help!!!

    GardenDove replied to hecete's topic in General Nursing

    May I ask, how did you get each word to be capitalized? Did you do that manually yourself or is that an automatic thing the website did to an all caps post? I was at another website that wouldn't let...

  2. Vent: I absolutely HATE stupidity! Not ignorance.....STUPIDITY!!

    GardenDove replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Cellphone use in the car is also very stupid. Eating McDonalds food is proven to be damaging to ones health. Didn't you see Supersize Me? These are all risky, stupid

  3. How do you know when it is time to quit your job

    GardenDove replied to CCURN's topic in General Nursing

    For me, I usually ignore these signs of stress until a crisis forces me to change. Therefore, I advise you to heed your inner voice. Start thinking of a backup plan now. You are very

  4. Vent: I absolutely HATE stupidity! Not ignorance.....STUPIDITY!!

    GardenDove replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah people are dumb! I saw someone talking on their cellphone the other day while driving! How dumb is that? Don't they know how dangerous it is? Then they pulled into a McDonalds! Haven't they seen...

  5. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was in report the other day, we do a conference type group report in our 2 nurse ICU, and we got to talking. One of the nurses was bemoaning having to float to med-surg, where the nursing staff is...

  6. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Saw a free Grateful Dead concert at Goldengate park

  7. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    P RN, some things have changed for the better, some for the worst. We have lost some worthy older values, but also gained some worthy newer

  8. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Remember Judi Collins? I saw her in concert

  9. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Jethro Tull, Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Moody Blues, Cat Stevens, Carole King, James Taylor, Joni

  10. vented patients

    GardenDove replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

    It's part of our ventilator bundle protocol Elevation of the Head of the Bed Daily "Sedation Vacations" and Assessment of Readiness to Extubate Peptic Ulcer Disease Prophylaxis Deep Venous Thrombosis...

  11. vented patients

    GardenDove replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

    They will probably do a sedation vacation each AM, you might want to be there when they do that. The nurse will turn off the propofol prior to RT assessing the pt for weaning potential when they are...

  12. How to handle taking off

    GardenDove replied to KristinWW's topic in General Nursing

    That doesn't happen where I work. The more I read this board, the more grateful I am for my place of

  13. How to shut up people who gossip !!!!!!

    GardenDove replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    In short, there are many other threads on this discussion board that DO discuss ideas and not people. Just a

  14. How to shut up people who gossip !!!!!!

    GardenDove replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    The irony of this thread is the fact that it appears to me to be a self-congratulatory mutual admiration society, populated by obviously morally superior beings, who relish discussing the faults and...

  15. Very Upset about THIS!! (Vent)

    GardenDove replied to cretia5080's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow! These places sound totally terrible. I work for a much better place. It has it's problems, but nothing like these

  16. Urine Drugscreens without pt's permission?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, that's totally ridiculous. Where I live in Washington the pt has to give consent. I know because of my own needlestick. He did give consent. The pt was Hep C pos, I knew that already. Tatooed...

  17. How to shut up people who gossip !!!!!!

    GardenDove replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    Was Peach Pie accusing me of being a whiney

  18. Before I became a nurse...

    GardenDove replied to arizonanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Before I was a nurse, I was a broke stay at home mother to 4 sons, then I was an artist/finisher, barely scrapping out a meager living and dependent on a relationship with a flakey guy named Woody who...

  19. Before I became a nurse...

    GardenDove replied to arizonanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Tweety, you are one lovable human

  20. What would you have done in this situation?

    GardenDove replied to samaletta's topic in General Nursing

    You are there as a student and I believe you did the right thing. You learned from the experience. You can perhaps role play in your mind how you will handle this situation when you are the nurse....

  21. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    If they live long enough, they'll appreciate us enough, just like we now appreciate our parents much more than we did when we were

  22. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, that's how those drills went. The Los Angeles school district had them too. The teacher would yell "Flash!!!" and we'd all scramble under our desks, cover our eyes with one arm and the back of...

  23. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Heh, heh! Those were the days! I actually did walk about 2 miles to Beverly Hills High, or else biked. Did you have 'Yellow Alert Day' in your school district? I remember one year Beverly Hills...

  24. Generational Gap in nursing?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, I resemble that remark! I walked through a traffic jam uphills both ways in the smog, back in Beverly Hills! We didn't even have calculators back then, we played pinball not high graphic...

  25. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    GardenDove replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    :offtopic: