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  1. considering nursing school at 45 yo

    athflvr replied to turtlesrus's topic in General Students

    Quote I'm currently 46, turning 47 in a week, plan on applying next year if anybody wants to email me the name of a school they know for sure accepts applicants over 45 years old, I'd appreciate...

  2. considering nursing school at 45 yo

    athflvr replied to turtlesrus's topic in General Students

    When I was in nursing school a few years back, they gave the average age of the class as 47 which was my age at the time. If anyone had told me in my 20's or 30's that I'd want to be a nurse when I...

  3. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, it always amazes me when a pt actually admits that the ibuprophen or toradol worked better than

  4. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    I've seen that pt! No I can't take morphine I'm allergic, no I don't remember what reaction I had. No, fentanyl makes me sick to my stomach. I think the one that worked maybe started with a...

  5. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    An ER nurse brought me a patient one morning who was a sweet, wonderful, delightful woman. Old as Moses and still smoked, drank a little, lived alone, took care of her grandkids and herself. Really...

  6. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    TWinkers, I'm guessing you don't laugh or think that it's cute when he's behaving that way. And I would assume you explain any medical conditions before someone attempts to treat your son - for his...

  7. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    athflvr replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

  8. Do you remove occluded or infiltrated IV right away or wait until new start done?

    athflvr replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    IF I'm replacing it because it hit the 72 hours and needs to be replaced then I usually leave it in until the new one is in. However, if I'm replacing it because it's occluded or infiltrated I...

  9. ER- HELP: Dumbest reason people go to ER

    athflvr replied to DachRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    OK I'm going to be really jaded and sarcastic, probably because it's 5am and I'm getting ready to go back for the last day in my string of shifts this week but .......... I'm guessing she didn't even...

  10. about CO nursing

    athflvr replied to davscor86's topic in Colorado Nursing

    You know, on looking back, I should never have posted after the weekend I had two weekends ago. In all honesty, more often than not, we nearly always have 5 patients. We've lost some good staff lately...

  11. about CO nursing

    athflvr replied to davscor86's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Thanks for the info. I am finding our that there is so much more to learn than just what they teach in school... the policies, politics, cultures, ect... Thanks!!! ~BlueBug Ain't that the truth. When...

  12. Hey you..with the trashy blonde hair

    athflvr replied to Emma123's topic in General Nursing

    Emma, when I was doing day care in my home and knew it was time to move on, i started looking at some of the jobs around me - knew I didn't want to go back to accounting. I had thought maybe nursing...

  13. about CO nursing

    athflvr replied to davscor86's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I'm at a not for profit hospital and our ratios tend to be 5-1 on the med surg and neuro floors. Anymore it's not unsusal for the ratio to bump to 6-1. When I was a CNA we normally had 10 or 12 to 1....

  14. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    That's too funny! Why do people think that stuff is OK in the hospital. I work in a Catholic hospital - I'd love to tell them "You know I'm not catholic but this is a catholic hospital and I'm pretty...

  15. about CO nursing

    athflvr replied to davscor86's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Yeah, when I was still very new I worked with a nurse who was pretty involved with trying to get people into the union. About once every year or two there's a push again, we get a nominal raise and...

  16. about CO nursing

    athflvr replied to davscor86's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Wow, and I just thought I was feeling persecuted for no damn good reason! Actually a couple of years ago our hospital had a consultant from back east in to review our patient loads, practices, etc....

  17. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    One of my absolute favorite docs at my hospital will write things on discharge instructions like: 1) Quit drinking or YOU WILL DIE 2) Lose weight or YOU WILL DIE 3) Stop smoking or YOU WILL DIE. I...

  18. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    I work in a hospital that tends to have a large "underserved population. (I expect many of our frequent flyers "home" for the holidays!) I'd love to answer the phone "Radisson of the homeless, this is...

  19. ER- HELP: Dumbest reason people go to ER

    athflvr replied to DachRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work on a medical floor in a Level 1 hospital. One evening, one of the trauma surgeons was seeing a patient on our floor when his pager went off. A man and his wife were in the ER, he'd gotten a...

  20. Pt dies on BSC today

    athflvr replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a medical floor of a hospital so usually the hospice patients come to us if they're considered eminent. Patients families always ask, how long do you think?........... It never ceases to...

  21. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    athflvr replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I never remember considering nursing in high school (or ever for that matter). I became a bookkeeper/accountant and worked at the phone company (back in the days of AT&T and The Bell System - and...

  22. why so mean?

    athflvr replied to johnsonprn2's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Good Luck! Having just joined the site this is my first post and one I feel strongly about. I started as a CNA in a LTC facility. When the first semester of nursing school came around they changed...