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    "ratios"? and pay in California?

    UKRNinUSA replied to NewJA's topic in California Nursing

    All I know is that before the ratios went into effect I had no real control over patient assignments. I remember working registry at an LA hospital med/surg floor in the late 90's and having 11...
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    CONTINUED IN WHAT IS THE MAJOR REASON Why are they all leaving?

    UKRNinUSA replied to artistnurse's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat:
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    CONTINUED IN WHAT IS THE MAJOR REASON Why are they all leaving?

    UKRNinUSA replied to artistnurse's topic in General Nursing

    DH -what is this DH??. I read it on your other post (choccie biccies for nice nurses) Darling husband? D***head? Dear Hubby? I'm from the UK, but its been a while. Please see my post on the above...
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    Have I been doing this too long?

    UKRNinUSA replied to ebony2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    NO, it's not you. You are not the problem at all -can you guess who/what IS the problem? You know the answer already. RUN....as fast as you can! Get out before they can fire you so it doesn't mess up...
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    What's special about male nurses?

    UKRNinUSA replied to GBS_Fan's topic in General Nursing

    All of the above.................and tho I hate to say it, being of a feminist persuasion, more likely to be HEARD about issues. It still seems to be all about the old boy network in a man's world....
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    What was the MOST BIZARRE thing a pt has been brought to ER for (and lived to tell)?

    UKRNinUSA replied to cari rn's topic in Emergency

    A construction worker that came in to the ER with a sudden onset of jaw pain. We xrayed his jaw and lo and behold we found the culprit. A 4 inch nail that had entered thru the roof of his mouth...
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    "I'm NOT going to support his habit...." LONG

    UKRNinUSA replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. The Emergency Nurses Association recommends only normal saline to clean acute wounds. Not peroxide, not betadine. If you don't have any at home (and who does?) regular faucet water is
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    what did you do in your former life?

    UKRNinUSA replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    Darn - I thought this was a thread about past lives. I was going to tell you about a psychic that told me that I was a healer in a past life and was persecuted because of it. I took that to mean I was...
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    "I'm NOT going to support his habit...." LONG

    UKRNinUSA replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    Such venom wildmountainchild, but I am pleased to get such a passionate response. I agree that I may have sounded callous and judgemental but that was not my intention. I am in no way advocating...
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    "I'm NOT going to support his habit...." LONG

    UKRNinUSA replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    Peroxide -another big no-no -it can cause air-embolism - I think it could become a legal issue if it actually happened especially since evidence based clinical practice guidelines (i.e. standard...
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    "I'm NOT going to support his habit...." LONG

    UKRNinUSA replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    I know where your coming from. Its tough. But these addicts are dealing with the adverse consequences of their addiction - the abcesses, poor pain control. If you remove these adverse consequences,...
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    How Do You Know If Er Nursing Is For You?

    UKRNinUSA replied to janetrette's topic in Emergency

    Try it and see. Before I made the change I made a list of the things I enjoyed doing as a nurse and tried to match as many as possible to a nursing job. I came up with ER. The transition wasn't easy...
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    Are you scared of being sued or do you know someone who got sued for malpractice?

    UKRNinUSA replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    That's what malpractice insurance is for -why worry when I can pay someone else $90 a year to do the worrying for
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    Emergency Nurses, what is it about ER that you love?

    UKRNinUSA replied to Razorbacks's topic in Emergency

    I like the teamwork -the sense that we're all in this together, the autonomy, but number one is that I get to exercise my warped sense of humor every time I
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    Is this standard?

    UKRNinUSA replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I typed "colorectal problems AND pelvic exam" in Google and came up with something about vulvodynia - apparently one of the symptoms can be diarrhea. Check it out. BTW -did you meet any...
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    nurse & dr affair, what should I do?

    UKRNinUSA replied to sandee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have to agree with stevielynn and destiny 5 - you CAN choose who you fall in love with. This kind of thinking reminds me of the battered, abused woman who stays with her "man" saying "But I can't...
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    Nurses radical bid to knock out political curruption

    UKRNinUSA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Two things -corporations are not necessarily evil -it's just that they have one goal in mind -making money -not necessarily a bad thing but becomes a bad thing when it disenfranchises the rest of us....
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    nurse & dr affair, what should I do?

    UKRNinUSA replied to sandee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Next time she starts bragging about all this money that is being thrown at her, tell her that it sounds like she is being compensated for services rendered. It might make her think about how she...
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    nurse & dr affair, what should I do?

    UKRNinUSA replied to sandee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why are they doing it? Lust? Money? Power? Does it matter
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    generation gap among nurses

    UKRNinUSA replied to angelcharm's topic in General Nursing

    I work with quite a few RN's that are close to retirement age and wow are they assertive -maybe because it's the ER, I don't know. You would NOT like to get on their hitlist. However I can say that I...
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    Nurses radical bid to knock out political curruption

    UKRNinUSA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    still waiting for your suggestions to get the corruption out of politics - all that pork you were talking about is just favors for favors i.e. bribery - you can't get rid of the political corruption...
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    Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

    UKRNinUSA replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

    Many years ago, as I was studying for my finals, I decided to make something nice in the blender. I was too lazy to get something to stir up the clogged stuff at the bottom, so I stuck my finger in...
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    ? regarding phenergan administration & being a concerned patient

    UKRNinUSA replied to iHeartNICU's topic in General Nursing

    The facility I work at has recently banned it in the IV form exactly because of these problems. I agree with the poster that said being a patient makes you a better nurse. I was an ER patient once...
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    Rantings of a young new ER nurse.

    UKRNinUSA replied to DaretoDreamRN's topic in Emergency

    I had a similar experience to you, both when I was new to ER and then when I transferred to the ER at a sister hospital. In the first instance I took a lot from one particular EMT (which I tried to...
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    "Nurses are not professionals"

    UKRNinUSA replied to wannabesedated's topic in General Nursing

    Rick - what you think is irrelevant (no offense intended) -nursing fits the formal definition of a professional as I mentioned earlier. However the public might see us as more of a profession if we...