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  1. "Is your manager a leader? What skills define leadership?"

    fedupnurse replied to prn nurse's topic in General Nursing

    A good leader is hard to find. They need , I don't know, charisma I guess. I had a wonderful manager a few years ago who was also a leader. She was one of us. She knew what we were going thru and...

  2. "know it all"

    fedupnurse replied to petiteflower's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of years ago I was precepting a new RN. She would ask a question and then tell you why she thought you were wrong. So I started to take a different approach by saying "How would you handle...

  3. Diarrhea! r/t nursing school?

    fedupnurse replied to malau's topic in General Nursing

    The ridiculous stress they put us thru in nursing school could well be the culprit. I would make sure that there isn't something else going on, like a food allergy or something. In the meantime,...

  4. Practical jokes at work

    fedupnurse replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Count me in Mary!!!! In a heart beat! I can hear the interview questions now: Do you laugh hysterically when someone falls flat on their face? Do you engage in one upsmanship if someone plays a...

  5. Practical jokes at work

    fedupnurse replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, come on! How on earth can we not be warpped with what we see, hear and deal with on a daily basis!!! It's off topic but I was on a plane en route to Chicago one day and I had an article from the...

  6. Prevacid and G.Tubes

    fedupnurse replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    I find if I hold the syringe (60 cc) sideways it disperses the granules more slowly and evenly rather than going into the tube in one big clump. A GI doc told me(after I asked hi why they don't just...

  7. Charting Bloopers

    fedupnurse replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    In a recent H&P: The patient has a history of alcohol abuse and an accident while in a coma. Our unit secretary took off a Diprivan order as Tritrate to seduction. On an axid order she wrote Acid...

  8. RN to MD....possible or not?

    fedupnurse replied to zinacef's topic in General Nursing

    In NJ, there is such a glut of NP's they are staying as staff after passing NP boards or taking a paycut to work as an NP. If I were going to work MD hours, I'd want the paycheck to go along with it....

  9. Non-ICU nurse pulled to your unit...

    fedupnurse replied to askater's topic in MICU, SICU

    Hi Askater, You have plenty to be worried about! I have 10 years of ICU under my belt. That's all I have done since I became an RN. Sending a step down nurse to an ICU is like sneding an ICU nurse...