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  1. Any Muslim Nurses/Student Nurses in Allnurses?

    birdgardner replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    At one of the hospitals where I did clinicals, one of the nurses always wore ankle length skirts and long sleeves - which I assume she pushed back when doing hands on care. I don't think she was...

  2. NCLEX Predictors etc

    birdgardner replied to canadaincali's topic in General Nursing

    I just passed the NCLEX with 75 and felt HORRIBLE coming out. None of the review classes, ATIs, class exams, or review books, really got the feel of it. It's designed so that even the better students...

  3. I hate when my co-workers are wasteful.

    birdgardner replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    I LOVE those wipes! As a pt, I couldn't shower because of surgical incision. Those wipes stayed warm the whole time; I felt clean when I was done. We never had them in my clinicals so I don't know how...

  4. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    birdgardner replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    From the article: "But 36 hours after the accident, doctors performed a PET scan of his brain and informed his parents, along with other family members who had gathered to keep vigil at the hospital,...

  5. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    birdgardner replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    These two people recovered from what was called brain dead. They were so declared by their physicians. They hadn't been unconscious long enough to be declared PVS. The only reason we know they...

  6. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    birdgardner replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23775873/ http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=498009 I believe in brain death. Not everyone does, especially those without any medical knowledge. And by...

  7. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    birdgardner replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    But there are some few people who keep breathing after the ventilator is turned off. There are even a handful who have made full recovery and gone home after brain death has been declared. People...

  8. True Commuter nursing... Anyone out there doing it?

    birdgardner replied to bobq219's topic in General Nursing

    I know of someone doing something like this with a north Jersey facility, but she drives in from a home in upstate NY. It's a long term care facility, peds and adult, and I assume she had a...

  9. A really good example of children in the USA still dying from childhood diseases.

    birdgardner replied to justme1972's topic in General Nursing

    I know of a baby girl who died who died of whooping cough - not even two months old. Better herd immunity would have protected her. Unfortunately, she had repeatedly been misdiagnosed with RSV - so...

  10. Know any RN's who became MD's?

    birdgardner replied to Anesthetize's topic in General Nursing

    If you can manage to take the pre-reqs for med school while getting your BSN, it would keep your options open. My m-i-l is RN later MD - she did it her thirties because she so fiercely desired the...

  11. Can one become a nurse if one has HPV?

    birdgardner replied to Juno32's topic in General Nursing

    Some of the questions on the physical seemed very intrusive. On issues that did not impair my ability to perform nursing duties and that did not affect patient safety, I drew a line through them and...

  12. $900 for an Echocardiogram

    birdgardner replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    'Course, the insurance co and medicare aren't paying any $900/ echo. More like $150, $200 maybe. It's the people who haven't got the coverage who get scr----. Always a good idea to negotiate ahead...

  13. FURIOUS! Ambulance Refused to Transport Patient

    birdgardner replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what the policy is in your state, but in mine, we honor valid out of hospital DNR forms and DNR bracelets issued by the state medical society. Further, a family might reasonably call an...

  14. good grief, how did a lady that age get on the roof

    birdgardner replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    In her 80s my grandmother used to go out on her porch roof, which had maybe a 15 deg. slope, to sweep off the leaves and twigs. She did get to where she would say, "Guess I'll have to get out on the...

  15. worried about back pain.. what to do :(

    birdgardner replied to penny77's topic in General Nursing

    You really should see a doctor to find out what's going on and to make sure you don't aggravate any injury. That said, I found that a Balans chair helped my back when I had similar sounding pain....

  16. dry cracked heels

    birdgardner posted a topic in General Nursing

    We've had shoe threads, hand threads, hair threads, scrub threads, boob threads - now a heel thread? The skin on my heels is dry and cracked and the more I'm on my feet and walking, the more I hit...

  17. dry cracked heels

    birdgardner replied to birdgardner's topic in General Nursing

    I had some Vick's Vaporub and put it on the cracked callus tonight about an hour ago, with socks. I swear it feels softer already, and it's warmer (increased bloodflow?) The other stuff I've used,...

  18. Second-order priority setting, question.

    birdgardner replied to baedwards4's topic in General Nursing

    First level -ABCs, critical vital signs Second - MAAUAR Mental status change Acute pain Acute urinary elimination problem Untreated medical problem req imm attn - ex. DKA Abnormal labs Risk infection,...

  19. dnr policies in manitoba, canada

    birdgardner replied to riyonarudo's topic in International Nursing

    Maybe that wasn't an ethics question but a clinical question? Someone having an MI hasn't coded - yet - and gets treatment, O2 and prescribed or protocol meds, and the MD paged stat. And if you're...

  20. Adults Who Can't Swallow Pills

    birdgardner replied to Medic946RN's topic in Emergency

    I could not swallow pills until I was in my early twenties and I didn't whine about it; I tried hard but they did not go down. And I was a migraineur chewing a dozen or two adult aspirins every week...

  21. patient circumference measurements post op

    birdgardner replied to mpccrn's topic in General Nursing

    Kind of funny, because just recently an experienced ICU nurse was telling us that that's one way to PROVE with objective measurements to the doubting MD that your post op abd pt has something going...

  22. Co-sleeping?

    birdgardner replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Twenty years, where did you get your figures? The CDC gives this table for infant mortality in 2004, with roughly28,000 deaths for live born infants in the first year. There are 2100 deaths from SIDS,...

  23. NOOO!!!! Advanced Nursing RESEARCH!?!?!?!?

    birdgardner replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm in the OP's position here - maybe because my undergrad research class showed most nursing research to be so dang boring compared to medical research - either insignificant, or obvious, or...

  24. 2 years pre-req?? HELP!

    birdgardner replied to jenaenae17's topic in General Nursing

    It might be possible, depending on which NP specialty you wanted. I had thought to do that with CNM. In nursing school, my focus changed. I just graduated and I've decided to work for a couple years,...

  25. Trauma Naked?

    birdgardner replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely, in those cases, a cath would be appropriate. But when the pt can pee in a urinal, the cath should not be automatic. (Ladies out of luck, unless they can hold it and are quickly cleared...