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the following is posted on the dallas fort worth hospital councils website of those members who use group one to screen prospective employees. dfwhc | home hospital members 1. baylor health care system 2. baylor all saints medical center at fo...

For me - my foot - Skechers - I've got a narrow foot and these fit. But the MOST important thing, in spite of these shoes are my socks. THORLO - they have this incredible Isotoner-type supportive fit - My feet feel fantastic at the end of the day a...

No matter what the shoe - I swear by THORLO socks - I choose the 'walking' crew, but they have a low profile one as well - they 'hug' your arch/instep and offer the best cushion on the heel and ball of your foot. They last forever. For flat feet - ...

Great post! And made me smile to be reminded there are, indeed, nice Drs out there. I know there are - but sometimes it takes just one bad one to take front center in your mind - Like the Dr I had to work with for a year, who would....accidentally....

Posted a question a few weeks ago saying I was re-certifying after 4 years for my CHPLN - and asked if there were any glaringly big changes - since the study materials were still copyrighted the same year as when I took it the first time. Had no res...

Real Life Nursing - So NOT school!

Hi Georgia - I've just spent two weeks exploring MN and WI for relocation as well as job ops. I'm an LVN from Texas and am moving to the cold! You may have already done so but the following sites have lots of ideas: Job Search | one search. all job...

I would not forget to stress - big-time - that patients NEVER, EVER read the textbooks and therefore have no earthly idea how they are supposed to present with S/S when they are sick, just to match what you learned in the classroom. because you lea...

Hi Everyone - Just checked back on this thread and congrats to all who passed. Oh yes, I was blown out of my seat as well. I remember the questions - or some of them - being so far out of left field, they orbited around and were coming in from the ...

The Commuter is absolutely right on the above post. The DFW - Group One site only listed what I posted. However, I have also found that many nursing agencies in the DFW area also subscribe to this service. Was told by a Maxim rep that they used th...

Hmmmm...might send this in a totally different direction here. Earlier comments all pretty good. OP has good query as to her responsibility - and I agree needs to further explore the order, the responsibility, etc... A 'bowel program' used for a qu...

DFWHC | Hospital Members Lists all the hospitals that are "members"

Just an outstanding letter - and I wish you nothing but the absolute best! You...will be the kind of nurse, or "candystriper", or aid or....friend...I'd want to work with any time - and the kind of compassionate - "real" human being I'd have no tro...

Sent you a PM -

Mucous-y, gray-tinged slime from trachs - the smell of old teeth, dirty mouths in geri's refusing mouth care from aides, nurses or family members and the dentures they pull out - smells like nothing else not big on gangrene either

Texas nurse here - and timing has worked out where I am looking at a move to either Albuquerque or Santa Fe by year's end or at least in January. Great time of year, huh? Odds are it will be Albuquerque - as I am following love/heart all that 'st...

Imbri - thanks ever so for the kind reply. No...not in NM yet - love sometimes comes with challenges :) - not bad but logistically speaking. Read your other posts - my reply to your ? about nurse/pt ratios - that being 45 pts...RUN.....VERY FAST AWA...

Along with being a Certified Hospice & Palliative Licensed Nurse - and in Texas right now - I've been doing agency nursing and contract nursing in various settings, mostly hospitals, in San Antonio, Austin for several years. Background most all...

My answer - used frequently: "For me, to be "allowed" to share this most intimate part of a person's life - his death - is a gift and a blessing. (and I firmly, unconditionally believe - a person chooses when to let go and who he/she allows to be the...

I had her sister.... ....and had never felt so defeated in my life. Your story could have been mine - She taught two courses along with being a clinical instructor for the first/second term. At the end of the double pharmacology course - my grade w...

We've got a lot of lines about our mother's on here - I'll add my crazy-making one - She says...Norvack - I've corrected countless times - and the dr when first hearing she took norvack, raised his eyebrow and said Norvasc? And my mom looked over at...

Hey everyone - First...THANK YOU!!!! ... for sharing all your knowledge, experience, wisdom, and words of encouragement to those of us that are just starting down this road! I am enrolled officially - and have lots of questions I'm trying to answer ...

Another update for so many that have asked - I just returned from nearly 2 weeks in Rochester MN at Mayo. What an incredible place! I cannot say enough good about every single person I met - My son is finished his 3rd week of radiation yesterday - ...

a very stupid sucky ink pin with a ping-pong ball face on a spring on top - with orange fake fur strands of hair - hospital logo - stuck in a suction cup base so it would stand up straight - with blue ink! who would think that was a neat gift??

Had a female pt once - a very needy, prima donna that confused us with the Hilton. Absolutely refused 'that black nurse' and wanted to make sure that no Jew came in her room because you know what 'they did' - and then she complained she couldn't unde...