MarcusKspn

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  1. Coumadin and Cranberry Juice

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone, I have read recently that the UK is recommending people who are taking Coumadin not to drink cranberry juice. The believe is that a product in cranberry juice interacts with one of your...

  2. Hospice PCA pump in LTC

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone, I posted this before, but I couldn't find the threat, so I don't know I didn't post it right, so here it goes again. Sorry if it is posted somewhere else and I just couldn't find it. had...

  3. Why Management is often not sticking up for Nurses

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know that we, myself included, often ***** and moan about Management taking the sides of doctors, when it comes to conflict between us and them. I know we often feel that we rank pretty low on the...

  4. Why Management is often not sticking up for Nurses

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the responses, great feedback and opinions. Always love to hear what everybody has to say. Lots of stuff for me to think about and ask in class. Keep in

  5. Please Reply If You Love Your Watch.

    MarcusKspn replied to EyesForward's topic in General Nursing

    My wife (fiancee back then) Bought me an Armitron watch almost 2 years ago. It is very nice, doesn't glow, but has those glow-in-the dark dials. It has second hand, but also has a little digital watch...

  6. What did SANTA bring YOU this year????

    MarcusKspn replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    I did pretty good, it was our first married christmass, and I actually got off for the holidays (thats one of the good things about being somebody who only works on set days of the week (in my case a...

  7. Made to look like an idiot. (rant)

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone, bad day at work again. Maybe I'm just asking for it, lol. This is a rant but I also have some questions for you. I wanna know what you would have done. You guys should know by know that...

  8. Made to look like an idiot. (rant)

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    Hello, thanks for your replies. Quick update, patient was allright, no further problems with abd pain so far. But I would rather have called the doc over nothing, than something major happening. I had...

  9. Littmann Stethescopes

    MarcusKspn replied to Medic2005's topic in General Nursing

    My wife got me the CLassic II S.E. for christmass, I love it. Really good sound. We'll get my name engraved in it as soon as I

  10. End-Stage O2 Research

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hello all you hospice nurses, I had a question for you all. We had a patient who passed away last night, he was on hospice services for the last 2 weeks. His O2 sats were dropping and we called...

  11. In search of an answer...Thanks!

    MarcusKspn replied to n8isgr8's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I know all the colleges around here require your LPN school to be NLN accredited. That way they know that if they give you credit for your LPN schooling, it followed a tough and strict standart set...

  12. To give credit to the show ER (part 2)

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    We all have spend the last couple of weeks, maybe months about how bad a job ER does of portraying nurses. Especially Dr. Romano. Now we all now what happenes to you when you treat nurses like crap....

  13. To give credit to the show ER (part 2)

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    I have to admit that while I hated Dr. Romano, I always liked to turn on the TV every thursday, just to see what crap he is pulling this time. I think its just one of those Love-Hate relationships....

  14. Bad Day at Work (rant, sorry)

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone, I just need to let of some steam. I had a terrible day at work yesterday (sunday). I work in a LTC facility. We had a patient who started throwing up friday evening. Called the doctor,...

  15. Bad Day at Work (rant, sorry)

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the replies. I documented my butt of yesterday. Very extensive charting on all his reponses, on every time I tried to get a hold of him. Of me making him repeatedly aware of PCN...

  16. Paramedic Nurses?

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi everybody, I'm an LPN in Oklahoma, wanting to get my RN and work in an ER setting. I have almost all of my prereqs done to get into an RN program. I was thinking about taking a couple of years...

  17. To give a little credit to the show "ER"

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ER might not portray nurses like they should, but I think that they have made a step in the right direction. On the "Dear Abby" episode there was the big complaint that the doctor was fireing nurses...

  18. To give a little credit to the show "ER"

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I aggre that ER does a bad job at represending nurses. But one of the biggest complaints that the NursingAdvocacy website had was that Doctors were firing nurses, when its really the nurse managers...

  19. Speaking of Nurses on TV...

    MarcusKspn replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in General Nursing

    I really wasn't serious about shutting NBC down, I get upset when ER makes nurses look bad, because they present themselves as a professional show. Scrubs and W&G are sitcoms, I don't take them...

  20. Speaking of Nurses on TV...

    MarcusKspn replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in General Nursing

    We should just start a pedition to have NBC permanently shut down. They are the N urses B ecome C rap network. First we have the allways anti-nurse ER, who were implying yesterday that all nurses do...

  21. Doctors and Nurses Gone Wrong....

    MarcusKspn replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that Doctors and Nurses are equal. They know more than us, have spend more time in school than us, and make more money than us. That said let me also say that I am not afraid of doctors....

  22. Some Feel Good stories

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi guys, in light of recent surfacing of increasing negativity, I wanted to start a happy threat. We all have crappy days, but lets talk about some of our good days. What has happened recently that...

  23. CNA license transfer

    MarcusKspn replied to madam_vedder's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to the board madam, which state are you moving from and to which state. Here in oklahoma the Department of Health certifies nurses aides, so I would think that contacting their website or...

  24. Nurses are not Doctors

    MarcusKspn replied to Plato's topic in General Nursing

    I always thought that nurses treat people, while physicians treat diseases. We as nurses go up to the patient and focus on their feelings, their emotions, how we can help them FEEL better, not just...

  25. Nursing, is it really a profession

    MarcusKspn replied to Cqc_Cqb's topic in General Nursing

    One of the definitions I heard is that a vocation is a Profession if that vocation governs itself and makes its own rules and regulations. Every state has its own Board of Nursing, that makes the...