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  1. How does your hospital handle staff who want to vote?

    eak16 replied to directcare4me's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting- just today I switched shifts with a fellow RN so that she could vote on Tuesday (I am voting by absentee). She was very grateful, and I'll be watching the elction returns from peeks into...

  2. what to look for in 1st job as BSN

    eak16 replied to SpecFuz's topic in General Nursing

    I just started working as a new grad two months ago. Honestly, the main thing I looked for was low ratios. You do not have time to learn if you have six patients! My preceptorship lasted only five...

  3. what to look for in 1st job as BSN

    eak16 replied to SpecFuz's topic in General Nursing

    I just started working as a new grad two months ago. Honestly, the main thing I looked for was low ratios. You do not have time to learn if you have six patients! My preceptorship lasted only five...

  4. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

    eak16 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    yuck... imagine that you are sitting down to eat your pizza and watch a little tv and then you see the new commercial for terminex -- kills household roaches/ants and now try our new lady partsl...

  5. What happens if you hit bone in an inj?

    eak16 replied to weeble's topic in General Nursing

    Once an MD gave me a shot and hit bone (it was a travel immunization, all the nurses in the clinic were busy)- I could feel it, it kind of bounced. He actually laughed and mumbled something about why...

  6. very rude fellow student

    eak16 replied to CVnurse08's topic in General Nursing

    just smile and rest well knowing she will have some very rude suprises coming soon

  7. A new pet peeve of mine

    eak16 replied to TracyB,RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    last week I got an order for 250 CC's of docusate. Its also good to be anal about the unit of measure

  8. A new pet peeve of mine

    eak16 replied to TracyB,RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I can sympathize. It also amuses me though that these are completely MADE UP words. The only reason Risperdal is spelled that way is because some PR person at a drug company thought it looked good. I...

  9. Have anyone else heard of "basic care NURSES"?

    eak16 replied to Nursingangel's topic in General Nursing

    I am sure the state board of nursing would be very interested in these people caling themselves 'nurses"- maybe you should call to make sure they are aware of this

  10. wound question

    eak16 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, here's my question- I am a new grad RN, very young, very healthy. On Sunday I borrowed a friends roller blades and skated about ten miles, but they didn't fit too well and I ended up with a small...

  11. wound question

    eak16 replied to eak16's topic in General Nursing

    thanks guys!- I'm seeing my PCP

  12. Have you ever given the 'Nurse Dose'???

    eak16 replied to Dinith88's topic in General Nursing

    Think of the guilt you would feel if that "nurse dose" of ativan caused respiratory depression or worse. Forget guilt, think of the liability! If I remember right, my hospitals insurance only covers...

  13. Terri Shiavo Case

    eak16 replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

    so sad. Who knows what she would have wanted without a living will. I am just about as young as a BSN prepared RN could be and i have a living will, DPOA, and funeral plans filed in three places. You...

  14. How valuable is Report?

    eak16 replied to nptobee's topic in General Nursing

    some people are more visual learners and some more audio. I think reading the Kardex and then hearing report reinforces things that otherwise I may forget. Using more than one sense at a time...

  15. What if someone were to start a "pay what you can" chain of primary care clinics?

    eak16 replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I think it boils down to whether you believe that humans are natually good and would use this system responsibly and unselfishly, or naturally evil and would abuse it even more than they do ER's now....

  16. PT Doing wound care?!

    eak16 replied to Gampopa's topic in General Nursing

    here PT's do water-pic. They are very good, and are usually less rushed than nurses. Amen to not needing everything to be a nursing responsibility! Isn't that the point of interdisciplinary

  17. why a nurse and not a doctor

    eak16 replied to lindskay's topic in General Nursing

    why does no one ask 'why a nurse and not a welder?' Nurse and doctor are two completely different professions. I became a nurse because I wanted to do what nurses do. I have never even considered...

  18. Attention RN's Help me with assignment

    eak16 replied to daisylove's topic in Ob/Gyn

    ahh, nursing school has begun again this

  19. working in OREGON vs. WASHINGTON ????

    eak16 replied to Oregon Runner's topic in General Nursing

    OMG- I thought you were asking if anyone was working during the OSU vs. UW football game this season!!! Maybe a University hospital with a veiw of the staduim??? time to go to bed for

  20. "Angels of Death"

    eak16 replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    This reminds me of a patient a while ago whose visitor in the hospital brought him an Enquirer magazine from the gift shop. I think it was as a joke, since this guy was a really highly educated...

  21. Not exactly the Motel 6, but....

    eak16 replied to FZ1Tom's topic in Emergency

    Have you had any experience working in an ER, or any acute care setting for that matter? i noticed that most of your postings are complaints about how you were treated at one time or another. It...

  22. Took Nclex Second Time Today...265 Again..

    eak16 replied to MLK RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have friends who passed at 265. If you answered the last questions right, and if it was a high enough difficulty level, then you will pass at

  23. did you have to raise money for your graduation?

    eak16 replied to lucyNRN's topic in General Nursing

    wow, thats almost sad......we had a big university ceremory (to which almost no one came) a more personal nursing department ceremony (still pretty big, in a 1200 person auditorium). We raised money,...

  24. med aide

    eak16 replied to dogresQer's topic in General Nursing

    wow- it sounds like you read someting that made you mad. i notice this is only your second post, maybe you have not been around long enough to read the many, many postings where nurses say that good...

  25. Need suggestions on BSL/CPR certificate!! Many thx

    eak16 replied to Isabel2004's topic in General Nursing

    the AHA class is quick and precise- I think my forst one was only five hours, and then the two year renewal ones were only four