Neveranurseagain

Neveranurseagain RN

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  1. Nursing and sexual orientation

    My philosophy is the same as my co workers. Don't discuss your sex life and I won't discuss mine. I don't care who you date or marry as long as you are happy. And if you aren't happy, we will all have...
  2. What are some unique, non-acute RN jobs?

    I have done some unique, out of the hospital type nursing jobs. I worked as a public health nurse in the immunization clinic, the infectious disease clinic, and the pregnancy prevention clinic for...
  3. legal nurse consultant

    You might get more responses if you post this under Legal Nurse:Legal Nursing - Nursing for Nurses If you do a Google search on this page (right hand corner next to Allnurses.com title) and put in her...
  4. Is this a Hipaa Violation?

    I'm just sooo glad you asked if it was a HIPAA violation , not
  5. Makes me so angry!

    What's funny is that is says, "woman ages
  6. Is she aware that approx. 45% of "Real Nurses" do not work in a hospital? Registered Nurses Realize she is a student, and has a lot to learn about nursing. Ask her if she thinks her MD is not a real...
  7. Let the chaos begin....family initiating rapid response teams

    How many times have families said they knew something was wrong with the patient yet nothing was
  8. Diet Coke Commercial: Nurses are Extraordinary

    DIET PEPSI
  9. well, i am unable to figure out what to do with my life. i am almost 50 yrs old, have worked as a paramedic and/or rn since 1978, (although not currently licensed) and need to think about returning to...
  10. Information on Affordable Health Care Act

    I looked into this for a friend of mine. It would would cost almost $1200 month for her and her 2 kids (all three have prexisting conditions) for the health insurance. That's 40% of her take home pay,...
  11. my love of nursing is gone...husband died of medical mistake

    It has been a while since I posted on this thread so I thought I would give an update. I changed my name from awsmom to awsmfun, in an attempt to start over. After a few years of seeing a great...
  12. End of Summer Report

    In my end of the year report I include: an average of how many campers a day the infirmary saw, how many kids went to see an MD, how many ER trips, mode of transportation to medical care (ambulance,...
  13. What do you do when you come across a...

    A co worker smelled like "old" alcohol at work a few times like she had tied one on the night before. I didn't say anything to her, but the next time I smelled it I went to Employee Health and...
  14. Do some patients deserve special treatment?

    My husband died of a medical incident. I did not expect to be treated better or differently than other families of critically ill patients, but what I did expect was some compassion and normal nursing...
  15. RNs who have never worked bedside - What do you do?

    I worked as an LVN bedside, but didn't work long as an RN bedside. My husband died of a medical incident, and I lost my trust of the medical field and lost my love of hospital nursing. So now I work...
  16. Questions about DNP's

    Looks like you need to go back and take a basic English and spelling course,
  17. Questions about DNP's

    I don't think you understand the approach to health that DNP's take vs the approach that MD's take. Not every illness/injury needs to be treated by an MD. A DNP can handle the majority of medical...
  18. Med times not on time

    I worked at a camp for a few weeks where kids missing meds was a huge issue. I did all the things above, but still had too many kids (even 1 kid missing meds is too many in my book!) missing meds. So...
  19. Questions about DNP's

    Having worked in a few all MD practice that moved patients through like cattle, I'd take a DNP any day to take care of me and my kids. If a nurse just wants to be a nurse, then that's fine. No one is...
  20. Non-clinical nursing - What is out there?

    Some of the above comments just reinforce the principal that the OP was describing about working with a female dominated
  21. Putting a mask on a spitter

    What about the rights of the CNA's not to be spit on and treated this way? Is this not abuse of the CNA to have to stand there and let a pt spit on them? Even with a gown, the spit soaks thru onto...
  22. Non-clinical nursing - What is out there?

    I understand where you are coming from. I have worked as a paramedic firefighter with an all male crew, and they respected and stood up for each other. I would trust these guys with my life. On the...
  23. Terrified Patient

    Reassurance is always a good thing, but when anxiety reaches a level like this it is almost impossible to stop without pharmaceutical intervention. Once the anxiety is under control, reassurance,...
  24. Do nurses make you wear diapers if you wet the bed?

    Explain the situation and your concerns to the staff when she is admitted. She is not the only child/teen that has had this issue--I work at a camp and some highschoolers still wear pull ups! I think...
  25. Pending endorsement licensure

    Forget calling them--I too left multiple messages and emails. I finally drove 5 hrs round trip to hand them my documents. In the middle of copying them, the copier ran out of toner, and was replaced....