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  1. Don't understand this weird-a%&! parameter

    time4meRN replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in General Nursing

    Prob diastolic, sounds like the practitioner may be

  2. New Grads Today v. New Grads From Years Ago

    time4meRN replied to sj73201's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Welcome future new grad, sounds like a research project in the work. I've been an RN for 31 years. Started in OB, ended up in Critical care, flight rn and ED. Patients haven't changed, the process has...

  3. any one know ?

    time4meRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    :confused:Question, has anyone ever heard of an assisted living facility that requests that patients be on hospice so that if the patient dies there will not be a crime investigation. The facility...

  4. any one know ?

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone, sometimes its difficult to see thing clearly when your

  5. any one know ?

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, that's what I thought too but, interested if there are perhaps state laws that actually dictate such practice. It seems like an odd question, one I can't believe, I'm asking since I've been a...

  6. MA's in hospitals, replacing RNs ?

    time4meRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    :angryfireOK, so is this true. Has anyone seen adverts for ma as clinical bed side care givers. I think nurses need to start speaking up against this. I would never go to a hospital that an MA is my...

  7. MA's in hospitals, replacing RNs ?

    time4meRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes , this is what worries me. Those that say this will never happen may have a big wake up call some day. I do think that ma's have been allowed to do so many things in physicians offices , with no...

  8. What is nursing like in the U.S.A? Please explain for a Scottish nurse

    time4meRN replied to calastro's topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I find this interesting because I want to go to Scotland to work. Somewhere near Greenock. So anyway, I have been to hospitals in Scotland, I think you will find them to be much the same....

  9. Securing that nursing cap!

    time4meRN replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Nursing

    fold a piece of tissue into a 2x2 square, secure it on top of your head. Then bobbie pin the cap to the tissue on you head. Be sure to put a bobbie pin on the back of the cap so it doesn't flop...

  10. Venting about BON involvement in DUI

    time4meRN replied to Nursing NCO's topic in Nurses Recovery

    i agree. not just for nursing but in other areas as well. you are right.. we do not want impaired nurses working. however, i do feel like " big brother " is going too far. if someone shows up to...

  11. ICU nurses attitude toward med-surg nurses

    time4meRN replied to smallboat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We do respect any other nurse from any other area. However, we tend to be a no fuss no muss type personality. Even if your an ICU RN, resident or even an attending that says something we don't agree...

  12. Online Sponsor?

    time4meRN replied to Chaz C.'s topic in Nurses Recovery

    Would be happy to start that way as long as you are willing to have a sponsor that is a " big book thumper". However, the steps are toooooo important to take an " easy way out". So if your ready...

  13. MA attempting to make the right nursing program decision

    time4meRN replied to msnjie4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a critical care RN for 30,years. I would say, watching the trends in nursing today, that you go for your BSN. I think you may as well do it and get it done. I wish you well. Also, you are...

  14. How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    time4meRN replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Just reading all the posts. I would love to come to the hospitals that some seem to work at , where the system is working. All I see in our ER is one BIG health care MESS ! If it's working well...

  15. Customer Service ratings ....

    time4meRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Just remember this formula........ It always helps us! 2 percocet + 2 mg dilaudid x 2 warm blankets - 30 mg toradol or motrin x (20) percocet with one refill = a good score. The variables in...

  16. Beat up by Press Ganey !

    time4meRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    oh my gosh, i wish we could think of some way to squash press ganey ! seems to me it is a company that makes a lot of money making our lives more difficult as well as costing the health care system a...

  17. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    time4meRN replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I remember having a prof in school with an accent that impaired our understanding of his lectures. We were upset because we were paying a lot of money for the class and didn't understand him. Pt's...

  18. Dangerous nurses

    time4meRN replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OHhhhhhhh Yeahhhhhhh !!!!!!!! You bet cha

  19. ICU fighting admissions?

    time4meRN replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked ICU and ER many years. It's always interesting to me see each others ideas of what should happen. I know that there are sometimes pt's in the ER that could go to the floor (or step...

  20. So is this economy hurting anyone else??????

    time4meRN replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry too much yet. Most hospitals are over staffed with management. In our 28 bed ER we have 2 nurse managers, 7 assistant nm's . Way over done. They still can't get schedules out or get...

  21. Diprivan: push or not to push

    time4meRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, here's the question of the day in our ER. I work in Ohio, can't find the answer in the OBN web site. Can we push anesthesia meds or not. Our consious sedation comp. says we can never push...

  22. Eat Before You Get Here!

    time4meRN replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    I know, one of our doc's is thinking about doing a study. ........ Dorito's or Fritos as an antiemetic. Seems there are some pt's that have " really bad vomicin" , so bad infact that waiting their...

  23. Can a CNA apply as a medical assistant?

    time4meRN replied to LittleJ's topic in General Nursing

    CNAs and MAs are certified, not licensed. CNAs and MAs are different, although I have seen MAs work in hospitals in a PCT or " nurse assistant" capacity. I suppose MA's could work in a nursing home...

  24. Nurses salary vrs teacher's salary

    time4meRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Really, I'm studying for certification test, acls is comming up . I did Pals 3 mo. ago. I have an online disaster test to take that everyone says takes at least 2 hours. I get calls almost every...

  25. What changes do you think will happen ?

    time4meRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    One of our ER physicians was discussing that he thinks the wave of changes that will be coming as the economy goes into a downward spiral. He thinks that MA's will eventually do a nurses job, as far...