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    Your most bonehead moment in nursing. Or 2. Or 3.

    Crash_Cart replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a new student someone asked me to get them a number 7 fallopian tube from the supply room cart. I must have spent a good 10 minutes looking for that
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    July 2019 Caption Contest: Poll - Select $100 Winner!

    Crash_Cart replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    "Quick... pull my
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    New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    Crash_Cart replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    Many of the questions on NCLEX are an exercise in trickery and attempts to confuse the test taker with ambiguously worded questions with multiple interpretations, depending how you read or look at the...
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    LVN scope with ventilators?

    Crash_Cart replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Exactly what I was thinking, (but not actually saying) to the nursing supervisor at the time
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    LVN scope with ventilators?

    Crash_Cart replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    No it wasn't even that... Just plain old lifting the jaw and tilting the head back, making a good seal with the mask, and then bagging the patient on high flow O2. Dirt simple kind of stuff. It...
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    LVN scope with ventilators?

    Crash_Cart replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Respiratory is very protective of their domain. I recall being "put on report" one time for responding to a code blue and since respiratory wasn't there at the time, I ended being the individual who...
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    LVN scope with ventilators?

    Crash_Cart replied to riquelle's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Respiratory Board vs. Nursing
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    Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

    Crash_Cart replied to mcknis's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "Good morning... It's time for your shot
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    July 2019 Caption Contest: Poll - Select $100 Winner!

    Crash_Cart replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    "Excuse me... have you seen my
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    New RN, how to save face

    Crash_Cart replied to ERN19's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly? It simply sounds to me like you wanted to prompt the intern to check him over more
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    The Worst Interview of My Life! Ever!

    Crash_Cart replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    There's no way that many people are ever going to be able to come to any agreeable consensus. There's simply too many people, with too many individual opinions and it's not even possible to "win" in...
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    New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    Crash_Cart replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    Entirely agreed. Successful completion of an NCLEX exam is only intended to be the starting point, not the final conclusion. Only real world experience can be the measuring stick of any such final...
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    let go from job

    Crash_Cart replied to tinybbynurse's topic in General Nursing

    You know, the more I think about that, I think you're probably right. ? Hey look, you got a license and you're in high demand right? So move forward and don't even think of looking back. If they...
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    let go from job

    Crash_Cart replied to tinybbynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I suspect there's something else going on that you are entirely unaware of like a hiring decision was made he didn't like happening in the first place. Sounds like he didn't exactly roll out the red...
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    LVN- AUSTIN TEXAS PAY

    Crash_Cart replied to Nurse Cathy Foley's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Not sure if this
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    Getting into LPN with low GPA

    Crash_Cart replied to ksdream's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Sure... Meet with the program coordinator and discuss any potential remedial options to help improve your grade. Remember, the window of opportunity is still open until "decision day" occurs in...
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    LVN- AUSTIN TEXAS PAY

    Crash_Cart replied to Nurse Cathy Foley's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    You can go to glassdoor.com and find out exactly what they are paying LVN's at practically any
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    Challenge EMT in CA?

    Crash_Cart replied to nurse_em619's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I would suggest it's going to be difficult challenging the exam because there's a lot of stuff your LVN training didn't cover that EMT's are required to know. For example: What does the letter S...
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    New NCLEX Exam to Replace Nursing Process With An Untested Clinical Judgment Model

    Crash_Cart replied to Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre's topic in Nursing News

    Translation: If it ain't broke, don't "fix"
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    Assaulted by psych patient, police officers walking by did nothing?

    Crash_Cart replied to PMHNP2023's topic in Emergency

    Was the pt. throwing punches, pushing you up against the wall and/or otherwise acting violently toward you as the police walked by? All we can do is document the inappropriate behaviour and utilize...
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    Assaulted by psych patient, police officers walking by did nothing?

    Crash_Cart replied to PMHNP2023's topic in Emergency

    Why would the police be required to intervene if security had already tackled him down to the ground? The so called "threat" was already neutralized. I worked with ER psych pt's before and quite...
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    CPR song

    Crash_Cart replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in General Specialties

    In reality, during codes I just watch the cardiac monitor to see what my compressions look
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    Is Nursing Dangerous?

    Crash_Cart replied to Bones17's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Define "violent." Someone yelling and screaming at everyone while throwing a food tray across the room at the wall? "Restraining techniques" is more about your ability to get into the person's head...
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    Exit interview survey, tell the truth, lie or ignore

    Crash_Cart replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    I view it as an optional formality, if you should so choose. What an exit interview is not, is some form of therapeutic intervention for departing employees to employ an opportunity to vent their...
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    What does your username mean?

    Crash_Cart replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    Code team. In the ER I was the designated human CPR machine responding to all hospital wide codes. One day when I arrived on a floor one of the RN's was trying to direct me to the pt. room where the...