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I shower before work after if I have a bad call ie. bed bugs or scabies/lice that is the life of a paramedic that knows that they can do what needs to be done prehospital. Nurses are too restricted in my opinion so I gave it up for less than half the...

What about this post is a violation?

As a paramedic I have to treat including foleys females of all ages. I am a professional I don't care about your gender as a patient. I am concerned with giving the best care possible.

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As a paramedic I would have had this pt before you and since I work for a very rural service 45 to 60 minutes transport times. I would establish iv draw labs and place in cooler give double dose of lasix rx iv place foley and possibly place on cpap ...

manufactures are no longer guarantying the sterility of the collection bottles just as they no longer guarantee it for injection meds even when the cap is first removed.

drain tube sponges for the precut hole and the tube will stay in a nice neat coil if you wrap the end through. hope this helps.

Bourbon and Allnurses works every time :mnnnrsngrk:

RN is all

When the goverment is in control they will pay the hospital what they want if that is $200.00 a day then the hospital has to pay us out of that. Good luck!!!!

Back in a different career, I had an inventory control manager who kept having his expensive coffee creamer disappear form the refrigerator. The way he fixed this also let him know who the thieves were. He made his morning coffee as usual placed the ...

I think you responce was perfect for the situation. I hope you dont mind if I use it in the future.

I work 6p to 6a Fri., Sat. & Sun. on Friday I get up at 05:30 to take my son to school and try to get a nap between 14:00 and 16:00. Most of the time I dont get the nap so I normally get back to bed at 08:00 sat. and sleep until around 13:30 when...

I kink the clear plastic tube leading to the bag and hold it with a rubberband. I hope this helps.:wink2::wink2:

Before I went into nursing I was a mechanic for 20 years. We played phone pranks all the time we would put clear grease or a clear sticky sealer on the ear piece. It got to the point that no one would answer the phone without looking at the earpiece ...

I am going to school and working three 12's fri. sat. and sun. nights. This is not easy but it works. Between 0500 friday morning and 2200 monday evining I average 12 to 15 hrs sleep.

At my facility we are required to use PPE for all patients on contact precations. These patient are also placed on " isolation". The patients are alowed to go to the dining room and to the rehab gym and any other patient areas they want to and are no...

I am in school now working on my RN. I am currently working as a cna. I was a master certified auto mechanic for 19 years before changing careers. A you probaly already know blacksmiths evolved into automechanics except for the few that decided to re...

I feel that being a CNA has been the best thing I could have done before and during nursing school. Wiping butts is the easy part of the job! Assement of mental status, skin condition, overall condition is the most important part of the job. I feel t...

I lift up to 245 lbs alone if they are partialy weight bearing. I am a male & I am 200 lbs & workout. Two days ago I had to catch a male resident that is 215 lbs I caught him no injuries to both of us. I am glad none of the girls/ladies i w...

I wear burgandy waterproof lace up hiking boots from redwing shoes

M-F school 0800 - 1330 work 4 on 2 off 2200 - 0600 days change study when I can have 3 children at home still 19-14-9 yrs old see my wife as much as possible I cook for the family

this was my comment Are you crazy? The the term nurse is protected by law.If the term was not protected I would not call myself a nurse. I am a cna now and a nursing student I would never call myself a nurse I have not earned that tit...

I have been ask to privte sit my best friends mother. I have known this lady for 33 years. She sat on the the front pew beside my own mother when I got married. She is family to me. Her daughters are older than my best friend and they want to pay me ...

I work 4 on 2 off as a cna when i don't get called in. Have a wife and 3 kids still at home work full time and go to school for my RN. when you get a day off enjoy it study all you can. i work nights this helps alot. hope this helps.