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what a teaser! but seriously, why is it that every resident that requires an apical pulse before given certain meds, is the hardest beat to find out of all the residents in the unit. i can walk up to any resident and place the stethascope pretty muc...

As a new LPN graduate I constantly here "Congratulations, we need more male nurses." & "As a man most employers will hire you on the spot!"..... But it has been my clinical experience that there was no one specific thing that could have been done...

I would say most cartoonist don't moonlight as ped nurses, and this one probly doesnt have kids either. If a nurse pulled this on my kids I would want to stop here at the door, and hide 2 9mm's behind my hands and ask here "which hand?" Figuritively ...

"Because of the view people have of men in nursing many feel that they must show that they do belong in nursing. I've noticed that allot of guys tend to go overboard to show that they "know their stuff". . "I watch peoples reactions when I tell them...

The only thing I know of that is an (under the table) butt creme mix is something done at our facility. It is Baza , Dermamed , and zinc oxide. Some nurses throw in Eucerine or EPC allthough I'm not sure why, they probly think more is better. :)

I wish this were true, I could use the extra cash! :rotfl: Unfortunately the facility I work at doesnt pay based on gender, we all get the same rate based on length of service of course. The figures I have found,(and I did a paper on the whole male ...

You can't beat Wal*Mart in a pinch. ebay will save you money but take longer, there is scrubsxpress, work-n-gear, or look in your phone book for a local store (it's good to patron these places too just to keep them around even if you do pay a little ...

nursemike? thats another male nurse issue. some elderly females get all uncomfortable with your hand moving around on thier chest with the bell. It sounds trivial, but it happens. Another question I have is if it would be prudent to double check you...

Wow you sound like my old nursing instructor, great tips. Its not dig though its Metaproprol or something like that, I'm still not that familiar with it, as I probly should be. I sound like a lousy nurse but I am brand new to this.

LPN2b2004 It was a little large, sorry I was working on it. btw I just graduated in may myself.. congradulations.

Hmmmmmm the lamp or the squash........ I guess the lamp was a bright idea

:) ii's thanks for the welcome. can we agree to disagree, and get along? :kiss

If you have the time to take the exam (cause I know what it's like when you are in school and working) go for it. I was a cna for 2 years before I graduated, and the experience was invaluable to my education. You see and hear and do things as an aide...

as I walked on the unit today at 2:45 I saw the only other 2 male nurses in the facility had my unit on first shift today. They hadnt met me yet so they said "welcome to the brotherhood of nursing". All I could do is laugh and think about this thread...

Sorry y'all I gave up on this post around #7 on Friday and worked back to back double shifts this weekend. Now it's Sunday night around 11:45pm, and look at the monster I've created. (by the way I did my first succesful straight cath today! it was li...

:chair: I dont remember saying we didnt need more excellent qualified nurses or nurses period. We do. With that established, (which I thought was a foregone conclusion), ...and as my new attorny -smilingblueyes- has pointed out it's not a gender, rac...

I am not pitting males versus females,,,, I am just searching for the rationale behind some of the comments I've recieved. please call the ACLU and cancel your complaint. TY

you can tell a nurse by the empty cigarette packs and twinkie wrappers falling out of thier lab coat pockets.

I always wondered what the gyn. and nurses thought about some of the trash monsters who show up at the the gynecologist's office or probably even worse.......the health dept. I think I'm going to go PUKE right now.

I am a cna student and currently in the clinical phase. One thing I can tell you is that going through the community college is much harder, and takes longer than being trained by an employer. but if you cant find an employer willing to do that it be...

I seriuosly think this woman is psychotic. She is either overworked and has no biznezz teaching this class or she has some form of expressive aphasia. She has taught us mixed up terminology and then marks it wrong on the test when we go by what she s...

UPDATE: the question was thrown out, due to excessive P&M(pissing and moaning). A few under the breath comments went well noticed. I only have her untill 12-18-02 so I can skip passed her real smooth:cool: I appreciate all the good advice and ma...

I just started the cna cert. this month and enjoy the class. I have a psycho rn teacher though! she gives us 2 chapters everyday, but somehow it sinks in, i've got a 97 and a 100 on tests so far. it isnt as easy as i thought it would be, but if you h...

My mom is a nurse and my dad is a policeman. according to them everything I did as a teenager could either kill you or you could get arrested for it.:roll

maybe it was pay as you go surgery, you know half now and half in the middle.etc.