NurseShell

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  1. Best compliment ever!!

    NurseShell replied to L&D.RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    WOO HOO!!! You go!! For the record - I remember my nurses' names from all three of my births!! Lucy, Leslie, and Polly Lucy had really long beautiful hair and she was so sweet to me!! She held my long...

  2. Tax Write Offs, items and costs needed for Nursing School

    NurseShell replied to colleen10's topic in General Students

    Here's what we did - we itemize, and this only applies to those that itemize on their taxes: Anything that you HAVE to buy for school is a write-off uniforms stethoscope shoes tools, whatever CPR...

  3. Cheating In School

    NurseShell replied to cokie's topic in General Nursing

    We had a girl first semester that was caught "cheating" and she was asked to leave!!! Good riddance!! This stuff is too important to

  4. why do some nurses forget that they were once students?

    NurseShell replied to geleesa's topic in General Students

    I just thought of something else...when my classmates ask me questions - the kinds of questions they should figure out for themselves...I get irritated with them...SO, I bet that if I ever have a...

  5. why do some nurses forget that they were once students?

    NurseShell replied to geleesa's topic in General Students

    I am also a student...we have identified the few nurses on our floor who are NASTY to students and they are just not assigned any students. One in particular is down right HORRID...calls names,...

  6. Should nursing charges be separate from the room charges?

    NurseShell replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    This makes perfectly good sense to me!! As far as I know the other depts. charge for each item/service (I used to do billing for the cardiology/neurology dept at a local hosp.) I assume patients are...

  7. For those of you that are a nurse and those of you who call yourself a nurse!!

    NurseShell replied to StaceRacer1's topic in General Nursing

    I did a search for laws about impersonating a nurse and got a ton of hits about child abductions. That's just great...apparently a lot of people who take kids dress up to look like nurses to do it...

  8. I am doing my first care plan and I have a question

    NurseShell replied to Jenn_RN's topic in General Students

    I write what I did that day...I work what I did all day into my care plans...it works

  9. I am doing my first care plan and I have a question

    NurseShell replied to Jenn_RN's topic in General Students

    The way we "get around" the medical diagnosis thing is by "specifying" our nursing diagnosis - using parentheses. So it would look like this: Imbalanced nutrituion: less than body requirement. R/T...

  10. Nurse Extern

    NurseShell replied to Nurse Izzy's topic in General Students

    Oh yes??! Do tell...I've heard some awful rumors about having to sign contracts and stuff...what's the

  11. Memories of nursing school.....

    NurseShell replied to wv_nurse 2003's topic in General Nursing

    I am a current student, does that count? How about the male student who claims to be a resp. therapist yet know absolutely NOTHING!! Sucks at clinicals and drives everyone batty?!?! He rants on and on...

  12. I wrote up a doctor

    NurseShell replied to RN always's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like he deserved it!! Good for you for calling him on it!! I almost (chickened out) wrote up an ER doc that did a quick "consult" on my stepdaughter once. She and my hubby were in an accident...

  13. The most pee ever.....

    NurseShell replied to KC CHICK's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Panda!! LOVE your avatar!!! "I am NOT a pickle...I'm a cucumber!" Larry the

  14. The most pee ever.....

    NurseShell replied to KC CHICK's topic in General Nursing

    I've read all the posts - so please, explain to me why in our postop lecture today we were told to NEVER EVER drain more than 800cc's MAX at a time (earlier in this thread I read 1000)?????? I...

  15. The most pee ever.....

    NurseShell replied to KC CHICK's topic in General Nursing

    after my second child was born VBAC I was told to call for help if I needed to pee (epidural, etc). He was born at 0130 and I was in my room by 0430 (not sure how many bags of L/R I'd had, but It was...

  16. The most pee ever.....

    NurseShell replied to KC CHICK's topic in General Nursing

    OOOOO that sounds fun! As long as I've got a Poise to catch little drips I can hold it for a LONG TIME...only if it's for a good cause of course! I HAD to hold it not long ago because I was stuck in...

  17. How to choose the BEST answer?

    NurseShell replied to SpecFuz's topic in General Students

    You have to use the hierarchy!!! ABCs FIRST!! This bit me in the orifice on the first couple tests...I was thinking like you..head injury...ummm...check pupils!! but they want you to use the hierarchy...

  18. How to choose the BEST answer?

    NurseShell replied to SpecFuz's topic in General Students

    We have a "how to take nusing tests" tutorial in our computer lab. Before the last test (pre final) last semester I checked it out! I am SO GLAD I did!! Here's the jist of it: There are 4 Critical...

  19. Nursing Students: good/bad moments

    NurseShell replied to nursbee04's topic in General Students

    BEST: Earning the highest evaluation score in our group and being told that "great things will be expected" from me in the future. Hearing from a patient at the end of the day "you can't leave!...

  20. What Freaks You Out?

    NurseShell replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still in school, but I have to totally agree with the sputum, mucus thing - ick! I can't even watch my husband spit when he brushes his teeth!! Ostomy bag contents aren't much fun either! I'm...