dustydog

dustydog

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About dustydog

ret AF, former LPN

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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nrse judy Would love to see your ghost site. Please pm link to me. Thanks so
  2. Nursing refresher courses

    luvstoread I'm sending you a pm
  3. Topamax

    Hi, I'm taking topamax for migraine prevention which does pretty well for me. I can get by with 100 mg a day which is good because any higher dosage makes me dumber than a box of rocks. I have...
  4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Sorry, not exactly a ghost story but a death story. I had seen death before in hospitals and nursing homes but somehow I just didn't really seem to grasp in spiritual terms what it all seemed to...
  5. It is a well known fact that these monsters cannot be rehabed. I am with the rest of you. Every time I hear about these horrible events involving children I want to take the perpetrator and the...
  6. Abused by instructor---what to do?

    Timewood I admire your moxie and hope you will get some vindication. No doubt you'll be a great nurse and leader. Best of
  7. Do you believe humans have souls?

    Yes, I believe all creatures have
  8. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Alisha I am just insensed by this as well :angryfire . Fuzzy has it right - don't let them get away with this. You have come so far. Don't let these cretins keep you from your dream. We are in...
  9. LVN 'skill updating' Options/Refresher Courses?

    I'm having (have had) the same problem. I took an online refresher course a few years ago, however, when it came to the hands-on skill portion of it I was unprepared for having hospitals turn me down...
  10. Help! I am very dizzy

    Sorry to hear about the vertigo problem. I had a case of it in November and it was very scarry. Could not walk, nor shake it for 36 hours. Antivert did not help. Some minor incidences since then....
  11. Boneheaded Nursing: A Cautionary Tale

    Thank you mj, I appreciate and respect you posting your experience here so we can learn from
  12. Ohio Spring Get Together

    Thanks Renarian I live 1 hour south of St Clairsville (west of Wheeling). I'm an lpn, semi retired. I would love to meet up with all of
  13. migraines and nursing

    To all you migraine sufferers, I can really empathize. I've onlly had them for about ten years but when I get them, my life gets put on hold. I had to quit nursing school after the first quarter...
  14. Intimidation Tactics as Teaching Tools?

    Well said imusbecrazy. Right on the
  15. Intimidation Tactics as Teaching Tools?

    Very strange to think that students will actually learn something when their fight or flight mechanism is engaged all the time. I've never seen anything like it before in all my years. Sort of...