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interleukin

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  1. calling out on christmas...

    interleukin replied to naijanurse's topic in General Nursing

    By feeling any guilt whatsoever you perpetuate this perverted scenario wherein nurses think they are ultimately responsible for proper staffing policies. Get over it and stop this nonsense...if...

  2. Scared of new job

    interleukin replied to SBH2's topic in General Nursing

    OK, now we I have more information about your job. He will not "cough out" the trach unless the trach ties are improperly tied or way too loose. But you need to be comfortable with this basic stuff...

  3. Scared of new job

    interleukin replied to SBH2's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be scared as hell! You do not want to be just "learning" about a device that, if it things go south, will leave you essentially seconds to decide what to do. You should be absolutely comfortable...

  4. Best practice question

    interleukin replied to nursesail's topic in General Nursing

    Got OGs or NGTs, there is no follow-up confirmation aside from pre-use auscultation. If it's been verified with Xray, it's in the right place. Of course, if one has reason to believe migration or...

  5. I flunked out in my last semester by a tenth of a point!! Please help me..

    interleukin replied to nautica843's topic in General Nursing

    Sweety, God has nothing to do with this. He loves you as much as anyone else and he wants you to get your ass back in there and show 'em what you're really made of! We all flunked something,...

  6. I am GETTING out of hospital work! This is BULL!

    interleukin replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    "...and really it was too late to call in anyway." You may not want to hear this, but you brought this on yourself. Nurses always do this...go to work when they feel ill. There's no such thing...

  7. I want to be a nurse but is nursing really that horrible??

    interleukin replied to kgheen09's topic in General Nursing

    Do you really think someone not trained as an RN can realize/appreciate what an RN's demands and responsibilities truly

  8. ** "There's A Reason There's A Nurse Shortage!!" **

    interleukin replied to ArtisticAthlete's topic in General Nursing

    nursing is a career probably like any other (sort of) there is good and bad. it's what YOU make it! Problem is, we are being hobbled by poorly designed computer programs, mounting indirect tasks,...

  9. Deciding between RN vs PA vs MD

    interleukin replied to xpinchx's topic in General Nursing

    Here's the part that's confusing. You say," ...it's a job I'd love doing," yet I am assuming you have never been an RN. If you love the job, it will be fine. But, how can you love a job you have yet...

  10. Deciding between RN vs PA vs MD

    interleukin replied to xpinchx's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, duplicate

  11. You're JUST a nurse

    interleukin replied to oliveralways's topic in General Nursing

    It's never happened to me. But my response would be either; "So, what is it that you think nurses actually do?" I'd then give her a scary lesson in blood clots, VAP, and sepsis, etc. Or; "If...

  12. So at the end of my "pre-med" career I'm thinking of switching to nursing...

    interleukin replied to xpinchx's topic in General Nursing

    The "garbage" I referred to is the persistent micro-management of a practice that is inherently imprecise. I refer to the impression that nursing can be forever tweaked to meet some bottom line, that...

  13. So at the end of my "pre-med" career I'm thinking of switching to nursing...

    interleukin replied to xpinchx's topic in General Nursing

    My sentiments exactly. If I had t do it over again...PA all the way. No nursing nonsense. Get to treat patients. Generally better pay. Most have no rotating weekends/holiday garbage. Sure, I know I...

  14. Accelerated Masters?

    interleukin replied to Team Player's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not so sure there is not some new hybrid form of nursing online education which would confer such a degree. Online ed is where schools want to be. It's so much cheaper and easier for them. Just...

  15. do you ever felt like nursing is not for you?

    interleukin replied to 2008el's topic in General Nursing

    Good hospital nursing is very very hard work...period. And today, increasing tasks take you further away from the patient than ever before. Enormous amount of time wasted when computers crash, are...

  16. Shut up when I am giving you report...

    interleukin replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Leaving that place was a very smart move. 3:1 ratio, night or day, in a modern ICU is a management move more concerned with budgets that true care and a catastrophe waiting to

  17. Shut up when I am giving you report...

    interleukin replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Why do nurses often interrupt? Each of us needs to make our own particular sense of the last shift. But the information is being filtered through someone else who may have a somewhat different...

  18. Safe, Dangerous, or Irrelevant?

    interleukin replied to GomerPyle's topic in General Nursing

    is it safe and/or wise to assign a new cnr 8 patients? hi, the salient issue is not how well the patients are, but that they are patients, in a hospital, and presumably, are there for a good...

  19. Opinions/experience with...

    interleukin replied to brashis2008's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds a lot like bad mortgage brokers. They don't care if you could really afford the house(or really care for the patients) as long as they get their fee.

  20. The Patient I Failed

    interleukin replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It may vary from state to state, but in our state, you have to have a "terminal within 6 months" diagnosis (just like hospice) before the doc will write a standing DNR. Wow, is that true? In which...

  21. Can someone help me interpret my TEAS exam scores??

    interleukin replied to BabyNurse_PJN's topic in General Nursing

    You passed...that's what's important. Don't compare yourselves to their results...it's a losing game of anxiety and stress. My sister was told she's never be a nurse....average grades. She's now a...

  22. 6 months on night, my beauty suffers

    interleukin replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    Folks, most humans were not meant to pervert their hard-wired biological rhythms. You are seeing the results. Granted, some love nights and feel great. But many suffer the consequences. Studies...

  23. Is this legal?

    interleukin replied to lexibear99's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    "I know this was not a safe situation for the residents but is this legal??" Poor staffing policies are not illegal. But they are seriously dangerous. You may not want to hear this, but you did this...

  24. nursing diagnosis-nanda advice?

    interleukin replied to oKeto's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I meant no disrespect to those who find that careplans help. But I am referring to nursing diagnosis. Honestly, the only diagnosis that counts in the real world is the medical diagnosis. All nurses...

  25. nursing diagnosis-nanda advice?

    interleukin replied to oKeto's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Was that a real diagnosis...say it ain't so! Thanks for the