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    Need help please just started Enrolled NUrsing online and im lost

    talaxandra replied to Nellnbub's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Nell,As I'm a Victorian RN I can't help you regarding catching up with students in a similar situation but agree that being able to talk with someone in a similar situation would help. I returned...
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    Need Help with these OB Questions Please

    talaxandra replied to 2CatLover's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Not a midwife so take this with a pinch of salt but neurological problems are not the same as behavioural problems. Unless your text or another reliable reference specifically mentions behavioural...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes, you have to move to another room. I get you want to stay in this room but, as I told you, a patient out of ICU needs it. Why the hell are you crying? For the love of... you are fine, she is in...
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    Does allnurses.com make you a better nurse?

    talaxandra replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Much of the factual knowledge I glean through allnurses I could get elsewhere, though probably less quickly and easily. The space to vent, debrief and sound out other practitioners is something I do...
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    Duration of stay in hospitals, days weeks months?

    talaxandra replied to northwest2go's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I just read an article about this is the Australian Nursing Journal - will post a link if I can (or extract if not available online) as soon as I
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    A Wardrobe Malfunction, or Why Not to Wear A Halloween Costume to Work

    talaxandra replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like fun - I almost wish we celebrated Halloween here
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And him - I often think our OD patients would be less sanguine about it if they had an idea of how actually sick they had
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    No One Dies Alone (NODA) Program

    talaxandra replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like a worthy program. However, some of my patients seem to wait until they're alone to die. I know my grandmother did - after six days with no change the nurses persuaded my aunt to take a...
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    Duration of stay in hospitals, days weeks months?

    talaxandra replied to northwest2go's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What a financial nightmare for patients and families who've already been through so much! I'm so glad that's one less thing for ours to worry about. I'm back at work tomorrow and will ask the nursing...
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    My Scenario--Please give your opinion

    talaxandra replied to VanessaLove's topic in Nursing Career

    I work in a no lift hospital - although we could always use more, we've got a lot of equipment to reduce manual handling. Despite this there's always some involved, from pulling slide sheets through...
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    Duration of stay in hospitals, days weeks months?

    talaxandra replied to northwest2go's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't know about the really sick (ie ICU level) patients because I haven't seen any - by the time they're well enough for the wards they're no longer infectious. That said, as we have five other...
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    Greys Anatomy episode 10-29-09

    talaxandra replied to CSHRN's topic in General Nursing

    I used to care but years of stereotypes have worn me down. If I was going to get upset about how Grey's portrays nurses I'd start with how there are none as anything except background wallpaper,...
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    Health Care is a right

    talaxandra replied to headsup's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i clearly missed a page of the thread because i don't know how this relates, but: while there's no question that the lion's share of troops in afghanistan and iraq are american, there are armed forced...
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    Cultural Safety

    talaxandra replied to Coop_696's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I like it, but I don't understand your opening sentence: "The most significant issue within the health care system is that people are too wary of applying equity over than equality." Part of that's...
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    Health Care is a right

    talaxandra replied to headsup's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Just a reminder - the OP asked if health care is considered a right or now. Not "is it a right in the US" or "what do you think about the proposed legislative change" or "how does a Bill become a...
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    Charting Bloopers

    talaxandra replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    From my patient's AM notes: "started 15mg oxycodone to elevate
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Why am I getting a call from the ED staff? I told you, and the doctors told you that your wife would get her MRI as soon as there was space on the list but, as she almost certainly has a migraine...
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    First-semester students taking care of C. diff patients?

    talaxandra replied to Kringe38's topic in General Students

    Night duty with eight H1N1 isolation patients sucks! In comparison to that, one with C Diff isolation looks like a stroll in the park
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    First-semester students taking care of C. diff patients?

    talaxandra replied to Kringe38's topic in General Students

    I get that you're concerned, though hopefully less so after reading the responses. Like a couple of other members, I think you're way over-thinking it and massively more concerned than you need to be....
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    Nurse being above emptying a foley catheter bag??!!

    talaxandra replied to LPNfurever's topic in General Nursing

    Yay consequences of toolish behaviour! If I'm in charge I tend not to empty catheters, partly because I don't have time and partly because I don't want to freak out the area nurse into thinking her...
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    im Wrong? PLZ tell me

    talaxandra replied to MaleNurse25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The problem with multiple choice questions is that there are often two right answers but one is more right. In the first two examples you gave, as you now know, you picked the less right responses -...
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    Australia versus New Zealand

    talaxandra replied to seungk5's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Helpful. And
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    H1N1 vaccine... why it should be MY choice!

    talaxandra replied to miss81's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Crunch, if that was in response to me - sorry, sometimes philosophy hurts, especially if you hit someone over the head with it. Or if it's
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    H1N1 vaccine... why it should be MY choice!

    talaxandra replied to miss81's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "Maybe" How ironic that you then go on to write that someone compared apples and oranges. Shall we take a ski down your slippery slope argument? On the one hand, our starting point: a public safety...
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    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    talaxandra replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Nurse_Doom's story reminded me about a night shift when my colleagues and I returned an acutely confused elderly woman back to bed. She'd wandered into the corridor dripping blood from what used to be...