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I totally think circumcision is the way to go. I had my son done. I personally think that it makes a prettier "package" no pun intended. Not that the penis is an attractive thing. I have seen no infections with pt that have been circumcized yet I...

I like having the phone. If I have to call a doc with lab results, I can page him and go about my business until he/she calls me back. There are times however that I swear that I am going to throw it away. But for the most part, I like not having...

I used to switch day to day like that but now that I've gone Birkenstock, I'll never go back. I never have leg and foot pain anymore. For some strange reason, tennies tend to make my feet go numb.

Our visiting hours are over at 8pm. If the pt is in a private room, we really don't enforce the rule. However I do enforce it if the pt is in a semi-private. I can't believe that family members actually think that they can stay overnight in a room...

No one is saying that those who prefer to wear white only are in the wrong. However there are some strong opinions that white is what all "good nurses" wear. I wear printed scrub tops nearly everyday. My patients like the tops. And most of all th...

I donnot think that the public views us as unprofessional because we choose to wear scrubs with prints. Not one patient has negatively commented on it. We send out pt surveys to all discharged patients. They complain about some pretty lame things ...

I wear prints on my adult surgical unit. I get lots of complements on my Hello Kitty scrubs. Kids aren't the only ones who freak at the sight of a nurse in all white. I usually wear white pants so that all of my tops match. I don't think I look u...

can't operate a hospital of our size without a tube system. I guess if they want to pay someone to transport meds and labs all over the hospital 24 hours a day. Ours rarely goes down unless some d/a send a urine specimin without double bagging.

I have been getting oral ulcers for 14 years ( I blame my son he is 14 and all of the sudden after he was born I started getting all of these allergies and ulcers). These are NOT canker sores. I have been to 2 ENTs, my ob-gyn cultered them once (ne...

A man who cooks does it for me!

Lighten-up tillycs! If you read the forum title it says "humor".

Whatever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I work 7a-7p and I get dumped on a lot by the night shift. It seems that a lot of nurses seem to think that problems can wait until the docs make morning rounds rather than deal with it right away. I think that any shift you work there are those wh...

woops i goofed. our sysem is the same as nur2b.. It's great. the operator answers the call light and determines if its a nurse need or a tech need. We get a printed message on the pager...room 4402 needs pain med. I can just go straight to med ro...

Sometimes you just pray for an AMA!!!! Had a guy once that had a hx of heart and kidney transplant. Was admitted for "frequent falls". 1st I do not work on neuro unit I work on surgical unit but apparenty we had the only private room available. Th...

I totally agree with that. I don't smoke so why should I have to stand out in the cold or heat and stench of the smoker's area just to babysit a pt? Its not in my job description! I love it by the way when my post of pts fresh from recovery who ha...

I am an RN. It pizzez me off when I see another nurse walk 100 ft hunting down a tech(cna) to tell them the soinso needs to be put on the bedpan. If I am in the room and a pt needs something I do it. There is nothing more demeaning to a tech than ...

I work on a mostly surgical floor. We average 4-5 patients on day shift, 5-6 patients on 2nds and 7-8 on nights. It wasnt always that great, but our hospital is really concerned with pt satisfaction scores. We have many prn nurses and a registry ...

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