SmilingBluEyes

Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis

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    Fountain Pens for Charting

    SmilingBluEyes replied to wernicke's topic in General Nursing

    No. No.
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    Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to CNAbutLPN2be2017's topic in General Nursing

    No, not patient abandonment, but job abandonment, which will likely cost you your position. It's up to you whether it's worth it to not go
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    YES! This. It really rubs me the wrong way, too, that ANY ONE nurse's family or commitments are more important than another's regardless of their employment status. WHO will relieve the exhausted...
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    This isn't about PTO or other such things. This is an emergency. As I said, I was perdiem. I knew that if an earthquake or tsunami were to hit and I were able to make it in to help, it was a given....
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    Hurricane Irma: Are per diem nurses USUALLY required to work during a hurricane/disaster?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to justSara's topic in General Nursing

    Yes because it's all hands on deck in a disaster. Why would you take a nursing job of any sort and not be aware if there were a catastrophe, you would be needed to help out? I spent 14 years' perdiem...
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    How do you deal with the conflict in nursing school?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Students

    I give people like that the 10 second stare/blank look. I just stare at them like "really, now?". That usually quashes it for
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    Seniority

    SmilingBluEyes replied to lexyrn71's topic in General Nursing

    I am not entitled, but "older" and you're damn right I earned what I have gotten by experience, time put in and blood/sweat/tears. I find just as many "entitled" young ones who say to the older ones,...
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    ADON having sex with CNA

    SmilingBluEyes replied to AWorley80's topic in General Nursing

    m.y.o.b.
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    Nursing, Hurricanes, and Floods.

    SmilingBluEyes replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    My thoughts and prayers are certainly with you Cardiac, and all affected by this catastrophic event. None of what you post strikes me as "selfish" but rather, quite human and honest. I am not in your...
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    Make It STOP!

    SmilingBluEyes replied to meanmaryjean's topic in General Nursing

    For the love of Pete. USE DAMN PARAGRAPHS please. I will not read one long incoherent run-on sentence no matter what you
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    Occupational exposure to floor wax

    SmilingBluEyes replied to NurseHP's topic in General Nursing

    Not even gonna try to read this. Paragraphs are your
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    Nurse tech working as RN

    SmilingBluEyes replied to esrun77's topic in General Nursing

    Two words: Get
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    Are We Still Holding Back Baby's Head?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Kooky Korky's topic in Ob/Gyn

    No!!! never
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    Finishing BSN

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Operate's topic in General Nursing

    what
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    Students asking for free money

    SmilingBluEyes replied to l.a.m.b's topic in General Students

    Yes,
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    DNP should be the Minimum Entry Practice

    SmilingBluEyes replied to nqe9650's topic in General Nursing

    Crabs in a
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    Which field of nursing is the most technically hard?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    I hate when people try to define what's "hardest" because no nursing specialty is "easy" and all require continuing competencies and education and are certainly NOT easy. Pissing contests are
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    DNP should be the Minimum Entry Practice

    SmilingBluEyes replied to nqe9650's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe we could start by using paragraphs as the means to communicate professionally. Just
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    CDN---certification question:

    SmilingBluEyes posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hey all. Can anyone tell me where and how they got the dialysis CEUs required for CDN certification? How you do this without spending like 300.00 to get them? Any tips would be so appreciated. I am...
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    Is 28 too old to become a travel nurse?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jchristine89's topic in Travel

    Umm I know people in their 60s doing this so I will hazard a guess and say
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    If you could redo it....would you choose nursing?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Nursing has been good to, and for, me. Never wanted to be doctor. Horrendous school debt and worse hours. I go home and leave it behind me. I don't work 90 hours a week. I like it that way. Oh...
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    Being called a baby nurse

    SmilingBluEyes replied to NurseA1987's topic in General Nursing

    OK---- now if people are gonna take umbrage with the term "baby"nurse, how about we not label experienced nurses disrespectfully? "crusty" "granny" "old and marginalized" Etc. You can't have it...
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    BSN straight to NP or gain work experience

    SmilingBluEyes replied to clint.parsch's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm $$$$? As an experienced RN, esp working overtime (If I choose) and weekends, I can easily make more than my FNP friend just being a plain old nurse. My FNP friend sees patients every 15 to 20...
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    Self scheduling and sick calls!

    SmilingBluEyes replied to MRSKMS's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a self-scheduled unit and it worked very well. We all knew we were on every other weekend and the senior nurses signed up first, then on down. PRN took what was left. It worked very well....
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    New grad: Feeling lost, incompetent, and wants to quit

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jl18's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What you're going through is so normal. Like the others said, hang in there; it gets better. Takes about 6 mo to a year to begin to feel competent. Til then, find a mentor nurse or follow someone...