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  1. Hygiene Queen

    Does your supervisor call & text you at all hours?

    The lure of extra money doesn't work with me.My free time is sheer
  2. Darn good
  3. No.You need a standing ovation! Twenty-six years of a "healthy relationship" is a pretty freaking awesome thing! Lol... High-fives and standing ovations for
  4. Hygiene Queen

    Lab values & Alpha blockers

    I think you need to look into what alpha blockers do.Of course, they block adrenergic receptors.What do andrenergic receptors do?So, if you knew they had effects on the pancreas or liver, what then do...
  5. I hardly think 3-4 times a week qualifies for a sex addiction. I would think that is pretty
  6. What I don't get is that it was the sleeping room... The door was locked... Noises were heard... And they bust in? Would you do that in a toilet? You have the same thing. The door is locked and...
  7. Give her a
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    Violent Patient Issues

    Back in the day, these pts were "snowed" and could be restrained. There is no place for these pts. Everyday, we (I work in geri-psych) receive pts such as yours. Imagine a whole unit of these types of...
  9. Hygiene Queen

    My worst fear come true.

    It's nice that you came back with a positive
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    How many Hours per Week do you work

    I work to live... Not the opposite, so I work 20 hours a week.I was full-time, but I found I could only do so many days in a row before I lost my "good nurse" mojo.I live frugally so I can make it...
  11. I was knocked out for a breast biopsy. For the most part, I was out, but I did come around enough, at one point, to hear something like, "good, this doesn't look cancerous" and something about them...
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    Depression. I have lost faith, please help.

    I know it sounds trite, but STAY STONG. I've been there. I no sooner got my nursing school acceptance letter when my ex-husband, who I positively adored, wanted a divorce. The story behind it is...
  13. Hygiene Queen

    How does administering PRN medications work?

    A PRN can be given no sooner than it's scheduled interval from the last dose. Any time after that is kosher, but pain meds are more effective if you don't let too much time go between (if your pt is...
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    How does administering PRN medications work?

    ^^^^^^^^^ No. There is no need for a 10 minute wait. Perhaps that was a
  15. Hygiene Queen

    how do you feel about group projects?

    I hated them because there was always one person would have a queen-mother freak-out that everyone else was going cause them to fail. Everyone would be fine. I remember one peach who chided the rest...
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    Have been in the ER for 3 hrs now....

    This is proof that while we may manage to restrain ourselves in person, the anonymity of the internet makes us feel more free to be snippy. The OP managed to keep her cool in person, but jumped on a...
  17. I didn't know it either! I thought everybody woke up with ceiling tiles on their bed and a wet carpet after a heavy rain... I thought everybody woke up to find a complete stranger in their room...
  18. Hygiene Queen

    S#!% Nursing Students Say

    That was beautiful... dead on! I cannot believe I survived it all and very proud I did
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    Phasing out Unit Clerks???

    We do not always have a unit clerk. This is what sucks out my soul and makes me hate nursing. If wanted to be a secretary, I would not have gone to nursing school. I HATE being behind a desk!!!!! (But...
  20. I don't think the "broken home" theory means anything. When we were talking about how grew up at work, I was the weirdo with the gruesome homelife stories... most of which were because I lived in a...
  21. Hygiene Queen

    What I have learned to HATE about Nursing

    Well, well, well! My, my, my! Hey, hey, hey... nah, nah, nah... gonna have a good time... it's Fat Albert... Geeze Louise
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    Pretty sure my clinical instructor HATES me.

    That's a very good
  23. Hygiene Queen

    Pretty sure my clinical instructor HATES me.

    Crazed: I did not say it was right. It's the way it
  24. Hygiene Queen

    Advice for new nursing students!

    I thought it was well worth the
  25. Hygiene Queen

    Describe the Ugliest Scrubs You Have Seen!

    I just had to say, I still think this post is the absolutely most delightfully written and funniest thing I have ever had the pleasure to read on AN. I have never forgotten it, think of it often when...