AZO49008

AZO49008

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  1. Just thought I'd share something gross

    AZO49008 replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    My nursing instructor related an experience in which they needed to emergently replace a guy's trach tube. Before they could get it completed, the guy vomited and it came spewing out of the trach...

  2. Why do men leave the floor and go to management?

    AZO49008 replied to gd1222's topic in Men in Nursing

    Pfffffft. Management schmanagement. I spent 15 years in the corporate world and am going into nursing to get the heck OUT of that environment. I want to be a provider of care, not a provider of...

  3. Don't "click" too well with classmates

    AZO49008 replied to TootyFruity703's topic in General Students

    Dear gentle J.D. cum RN: Get a grip already. I was raised in an upper-upper middle class family. There was never anything that I can remember going without in my formative years. We had a waterfront...

  4. Are we allowed to gloat here?

    AZO49008 posted a topic in General Students

    My school's ADN program is split into two 7.5 week segments within the semester. We're just wrapping up our 1st semester theory and lab classes and getting ready to go into clinicals for the final...

  5. Anyone have any resources on how to develop "critical thinking"?

    AZO49008 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm midway through the 1st semester of an ADN nursing program and doing pretty well. So far I'm in a holding pattern somewhere between a 3.0 and a 3.5. Our test questions are written like the NCLEX...

  6. ICU Nurses: How many of your patients actually get better?

    AZO49008 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm waiting to enter a nursing program and am working in the lab of a large, local hospital. The ICU nurses do most of the draws on their patients since they have picc lines, but we go up to do the...

  7. Well, survuved my first two days of nursing school...

    AZO49008 posted a topic in General Nursing

    And the instructors don't even have fangs! After a three-year wait, I'm FINALLY on my way. I know there are going to be days I'll wonder what in the heck I got myself into, but what doesn't kill us...

  8. OMG! This waiting room!!!

    AZO49008 replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    There was a patient from a Middle Eastern country in our NCU a few months ago. He was in for something like two weeks. His rather large family and extended family from back home took up residence in...

  9. Ever Gag or Vimit While Doing the Job?

    AZO49008 replied to 987!'s topic in General Nursing

    I'm starting nursing school in two weeks (YAY!) after a two and a half year wait. I'm doing a mid-life career change and thought I'd use that wait time to acclimate to the world of medicine, so I've...

  10. When will they change the name???

    AZO49008 replied to hand2cut's topic in Men in Nursing

    I admit that when I started thinking about entering the profession, I got a bit skeebed out about becoming a NURSE. I still sort of dislike the term "male nurse." Now that I've worked in a hospital...

  11. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm working in the lab of a large hospital while waiting to start the nursing program at my local community college this fall. I was on phlebotomy tonight and before one of my draws the patient's RN...

  12. Trauma Naked?

    AZO49008 replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

    I get sent to the ER frequently to draw blood on trauma victims and in every trauma I have been to there always seems to be an RN or PCA standing by as they cut the clothes off to cover the victim up...

  13. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    That indeed is an accurate recap of the situation, Talaxandra. Oh yeah...and just for the record, the OP is a HE, lol!

  14. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I'd like to clarify this very point as it has been mentioned by several other members here. I never discussed it with my fellow phlebotomist until AFTER the draw. Before we go up on the...

  15. Need some advice on how to deal

    AZO49008 replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    I think I'd handle it by politely (and truthfully) telling them that you are very busy caring for several patients and that you MAY be able to fulfill their request, but it might be a few minutes...

  16. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Stanley, while I agree with just about everything you have posted in this very lively thread, I don't agree with you that ethics in general is black and white. Ethics is actually more of a philosophy,...

  17. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    okay...fork over that bottom dollar. i wasn't any more cautious than i am with any of my patients. i know you might find that hard to believe, but when i'm drawing blood, i make sure i'm hyper-focused...

  18. NCLEX in 3 days...please help!!!!

    AZO49008 replied to heaverboo's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm just starting in an RN program in September, so I'll be going through the same thing about 2 years from now! I have a friend who is taking her exam on Tuesday as well and she's becoming...

  19. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Good grief, I never imagined I was opening up such a pesky can of worms by starting this thread! As Artie Johnson's German soldier character on Laugh In used to say peering from between the weeds:...

  20. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Your example seems like a perfect reason you would want to know about HIV status - invasive, surgical procedures. I don't have an issue with that at all. It's a given that invasive surgical procedures...

  21. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I find it hard to understand that as a master's candidate (and as a nurse practioner, no less) you aren't grasping the bigger picture here. But let me try to explain it in simpler terms. What...

  22. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    AngelFireRN wrote: "Does their right to "privacy" negate my right to protect myself against someone who is a walking biological weapon? I'm not as bad as some people I know, "put them all on an...

  23. Discrimination towards male students? Need advice.

    AZO49008 replied to Dabuggy's topic in Men in Nursing

    Interesting thread, since I'm a guy starting a nursing program in the fall. To bridge my THREE YEARS on the waiting list, I decided to take a one-year certificate Medical Assistant program at the...

  24. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    AZO49008 replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Wow...interesting! The responses seem to be all over the map. Sorry, but I have to agree with most of what StanleyRN2B has written. For everyone who seems to think it's my "right" to know, I think...

  25. Licensure question regarding travel nursing

    AZO49008 posted a topic in Travel

    I'm going to be starting nursing school in September and am pretty sure I'll be doing travel nursing after I graduate and have the the required amount of experience under my belt (scrubs?). I know I...