Hellllllo Nurse

Hellllllo Nurse BSN, RN

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  1. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    Things like this are why I do not believe in hospice pts staying in a nursing home. They should be cared for in a hospice inpt unit. Besides not being familiar with palliative care practices, most LTC...
  2. Re:Is your maternal grandfather bald?

    I've read that baldness is an X-linked recessive trait- so it it actually inherited maternally. Men who have a lot of body hair and are balding don't usually have excess testoserone. They may have a...
  3. Using a 30 cc baloon rectal cath for urethral drainage

    Supra pubic, not
  4. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    T-shirt for this thread- Antique Nurse
  5. Nursing school or become a teacher?

    Excellent
  6. Nursing school or become a teacher?

    Nursing is very hard physically and mentally. Shift work is difficult, working all or most holidays and weekends is hard. I know if I had it to do over again, I would not it. There is a big reason for...
  7. Desperate for an idea for a thesis

    I would like to see a thesis on what is really going on w/ the nursing shortage- i.e. there are plenty of nurses in the US, but working conditions have driven them away from the bedside. Dept of Labor...
  8. Most RN's first borns?

    Here is a link to a quantitative poll so we can get some numbers:
  9. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

    Hopefully, more nurses will
  10. Is this legal???

    I've never heard of being grand-fathered in to being a nurse. I'll be interested in reading the responses to this
  11. Does your work call you at 0530?

    That one takes the
  12. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    Wish we could all experience
  13. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

    According to the stats, there are more nursing students and more new grads than ever- and more nurses are leaving nursing faster than ever before. Read some of the links here to find
  14. The Cold Hard Facts?

    I have had the exact same
  15. Do physicians deserve credit for the work nurses do?

    I clicked on the link, wrote a letter, and submitted it. I suggest we keep bumping this thread up, so as many allnurses members as possible can
  16. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

    u of penn nursing research dept has this to say about a "shortage" (i highlighted key points in red) study of u.s. nurses finds young leaving profession; shortage may reach crisis.......
  17. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

    here's what the ana says about a nursing "shortage- "...although we hear more about shortages, situations differ from country to country. there may be a real shortage, a pseudo-shortage, a surplus,...
  18. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

    There's no shortage of IT workers, but companies are outsourcing to India like mad. There's no shortage of autoworkers, but Ford anc GM make most of their cars in Mexico now. There's no shortage of...
  19. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    I saw some nurses' morphine cooking apparatises (sp) in a nursing museum. It's weird that nurses used to cook MSO4 in a spoon over a flame then draw it into a syringe- the same way drug addicts do
  20. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    In the days when docs had to do BPs and assessments, were the docs around a lot more? I rarely ever see a doc in my area of
  21. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    Yes, the Mylanta/Maalox thing works pretty well. When I worked hospice, we had a few pt's who reacted to the adhesive on fentanyl patches. With these pts, we'd use Mylanta to lightly coat the skin,...
  22. So How Long Does the Misery Last?

    Dialysis is very technical. Besides the technical aspect- nurses need to have very good assessment skills. the nurse must be able to prevent pt's symptomatic hypotension on tx, but not leave too much...
  23. HELP! Short term and long term goal writing

    I could be anxious. Does that mean I am afraid of dying? As evidenced by what? Don't you have to use official NANDA
  24. In my experience, pts do not normally retain fluid in the beginning. If a pt's blood glucose is very high and a glucose dianeal solution is being used, sometimes the pt's blood osmolarity is greater...
  25. The pt's fluid status is determined by the pt's assessment- s/s, not the numbers. But, by the numbers you have written, are you saying the pt absorbed fluid the first two