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  1. Do I let this nurse take the blame...?

    birdgardner replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    How about suggesting that the patient ask his doctor if the tube entering the larynx is a possible explanation for what happened, rather than an allergic reaction? You will have done patient...

  2. Dry Drowning?

    birdgardner replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Could hyponatremia with pulmonary edema be the cause? So very very sad. "During his swim he apparently ingested a lot of water. But that water didn't go into his lungs until he went to sleep an hour...

  3. Malpractice insurance = bad idea?

    birdgardner replied to Guitar_Heroine's topic in General Nursing

    Suppose there is a case and you and your hospital are named. Your hospital is paying the attorneys. There could be a conflict of interest and good reason for you to want to retain your own

  4. most fertile during menstruation? what?

    birdgardner replied to lorenwithano's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The research on five-day sperm survival, that is the Wilcox timing of intercourse study:...

  5. most fertile during menstruation? what?

    birdgardner replied to lorenwithano's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If you had a period lasting 5 days and had intercourse on the fifth day and ovulated before the 12th day you could possibly get pregnant. Or intercourse on the 4th day and ovulated before the 11th......

  6. Licking One's Fingers When Passing Out Papers

    birdgardner replied to Karynica, RN's topic in General Nursing

    another vote for

  7. Trauma Naked?

    birdgardner replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mean that trauma nurses don't care, but that they don't have an emotional response to nudity any more, so they have to remind themselves that it matters to the patient. It can be very easy to...

  8. Trauma Naked?

    birdgardner replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

    To be the devil's advocate here, it doesn't sound like they "saved" the guy. It sounds like they did a trauma assessment because there was significant damage to the motor vehicle, but that the patient...

  9. Trauma Naked?

    birdgardner replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

    FWIW, I know a group of nurses gave a real tongue lashing to a couple of the residents at our local ER for leaving a teenage girl naked, and she was unconscious and unaware. As for the danger of...

  10. Personal emergency...forget how to be a nurse?

    birdgardner replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Before I started nursing school I dealt with my mother's breast CA, her burst cerebral aneurysm (she's still going, yay, Mom!), my first baby seizing and turning blue, my mother choking (thank you,...

  11. Accelarated programs

    birdgardner replied to krolik's topic in General Nursing

    I took many of my prereqs at the NJ county colleges. Although there is a waiting list for the nursing classes there is not for the prereqs. I was able to take statistics, ethics, sociology and...

  12. i got a needle stick today need prayer

    birdgardner replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Prayers said. May there be no

  13. Can one become a nurse if one has Genital Herpes?

    birdgardner replied to Serenity9595's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    When I took the physical form to my doctor's office, I crossed out the lines for genital and rectal evaluation and wrote "On privacy grounds I decline to share this information. It will NEVER have...

  14. Tired of people commenting on my salary

    birdgardner replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it all depends where you live. There are places where even a beginning nurse is making a comfortable salary compared to people around her, and places (like where I live) where a beginning...

  15. What is your take on multiple family members in room when they have roommate?

    birdgardner replied to hollyberry678's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    After surgery, I neaerly went AMA because of a family in the room and their d----- loud TV and music. I did leave but with the surgeon's reluctant agreement. Boy, do I hate sharing a room. Little...

  16. Is this wrong? Death and Dying

    birdgardner replied to Karynica, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Porcelina, I don't think you were wrong in the least. My class just took Death and Dying and part of the purpose of class was examining our own attitudes and experiences with death. We had to write...

  17. I was threatened by a Nursing Assistant

    birdgardner replied to acetabulum's topic in General Nursing

    Here's one final complication for working in the Mideast, at least some countries. The employer pays agency fees, visa fees, airfare, maybe housing. Then the employee is in debt and can be arrested...

  18. I was threatened by a Nursing Assistant

    birdgardner replied to acetabulum's topic in General Nursing

    Talk with ex-pats who know Dubai well, whom you can trust. Most of us here only know the USA. Ask them how to be safest, is it better to complain within your place of employment or to file an...

  19. What do you think of this comment?

    birdgardner replied to zenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know why there would be an issue over paying an RN with an English Masters more than any other new RN. That said, I have learned to downplay my degree, university and scientific/nerdy...

  20. Seton Hall Accel BSN--Still Viable??

    birdgardner replied to JerseyGuy's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I think your concern is well-founded. Just being in the nursing program has shown me options I had previously not considered. When I graduate and go to work I expect to look at more options and to be...

  21. Seton Hall Accel BSN--Still Viable??

    birdgardner replied to JerseyGuy's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    What I am being told is that SHU at the Georgian Court program has a 100% pass rate - in six months, meaning that not everyone passes it right off. The accelerated program also draws a different...

  22. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    birdgardner replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    If you are feeling very depressed, do not drink a bottle of wine, take a (possibly) token overdose, and drive at 2 am to the clinic that helped you last time you felt so bad, while cutting yourself en...

  23. SHU CNL Program

    birdgardner replied to MSUMan's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I was told today that although the main campus is going to have CNL MSN instead of accelerated BSN, the Georgian Court program will do the accel. BSN for at least one more

  24. supportive treatment....poor- LONG!!

    birdgardner replied to ilmbg's topic in General Nursing

    I'm hearing the OP loud and clear. I was coming off a hypertensive crisis when one LPN repeatedly charted my BP 40 pts lower than I could feel the systolic starting, spinning that knob down as fast...

  25. old lady feel like I am starving her

    birdgardner replied to ulmaulma's topic in General Nursing

    "the lady had a stroke years ago,know unable to swallow." If the patient had a stroke years ago and has not been able to swallow since then, how has she been getting her nutrition and why has that...