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I think the insurance industry needs a complete overhaul--you are supposed to pay your premium so that when you are sick, the coverage is there. Malpractice works the same way. Problem: neither works that way now. I would have more "sympathy" for the...

So, essentially this a professional network with social aspects, right? To each his own! I guess I'm just too busy working to keep ahead of the bills and raising 3 kids to have time for this. I can change my area, get another job or move up that "car...

Hey, I have come to an epiphany--it is all a plot! lol. Seriously, I think we are on to something....the hospitals pay for ad space, they won't pay for space on mags that criticize them or their ordinary business practices, ergo, we end up with artic...

Yes, but these people are for the most part, completely nonexistant---I know of no-one in my workplace and I am including ALL managment, admin. etc, that is a part of these. Sorry about the mix up re: sigma theta tau, but the last time I ever heard o...

Sorry-meant to post that I am taking a complimentary issue of RN to work with me. We in the TICU will exercise strict impartiality in analyzing and critiquing the magazine. As published findings are important to further the knowledge base, I'll be su...

What is not figure out here? Give the med as written--1-2mg q 4 hr. prn. I prefer this type of order--gives me a little wiggle room so that I can scale up for pain management w/o tracking down a doc. I also prefer having oral/iv choices for analgesia...

Hear, hear, Orca!! Our VP/Nursing does the same thing: quote:"This is not intended to be punitive; these progress notes are not numbered. (followed by 5 other picayune c/o's)" Yes, "they" expect us to number our notes sequentially........

99.9% of the surgeons I have worked w/ are warm, caring and funny--can count on one hand the arrogant ones.....don't be intimidatd by them--they're just people. The arrogant ones are usually the ones that were hotshots in med schol and were taught (...

Query: what is ENA? And how does one acquire same? I stick by my equivalency and do agree about the subtle coercion re: job performance and "the good nurse" myth. Reasonable and prudent, my aunt Fanny--how about I did the best I could given the circu...

I thought the nursing sorority was Sigma something Tau something...whatever. You can see how mcuh they really matter just by the initial posts. Perhaps this org. would be helpful in an academic or political (ANA) setting? It wont; do a thing for you ...

Yep-the very same ones!!! Have any of you ever done as many interventions on a pt in one shift that those mags say is "basic" care? They just seem surreal to me! I doubt the docs do as much as the mags say should be done! I do like to leaf thru them...

My Mom was a nurse (OB, L&D) just after WW2. As a senior student, she was THE lone night nurse in the gen. med. ward. dunno know how many pts, but do know she had to work at noc and attend classes in the daytime (wtf?). Also, she used to tell me ...

Perhaps a simple equivalency will clear this up: Nursing magazines are to real nurses as Cosmo and Glamour are to real women. Questions?

emma thompson would great for a serious movie about FN--let's go deviant. How about Sissy spacek---no Katherine Bates! Tootsie?

Whoa! sankruz--that is some talk show guest!! I had a gang banger pt once (Chicago) who had a knife and GSW from a rival gang. He had visitor restrictions etc. One of his friends (?) was visiting and said that so and so (not a "friend") was downstair...

Not to change your thread, but I think that Oprah should have as guests, Jerry, Jenny, Sally, Geraldo etc. and have Dr. Phil do an intervention on them! I work day shift and these schlock talk shows (that and Judge Judy) are all these pts watch....it...

Love, love, love the button!!!!! Bush no more in '04!!

ROTFLMAO!!! Esp. liked the nurses notes......no black ink for Martha--only the finest in calligraphy.......

How about a cross between Debra winger in Terms of Endeament and 9 to 5 (Lily tomlin and the skinny and sweet) with some Nurse Ratchet thrown in.....

TeeHee! And what about those pesky pt. trays? Mashed potatoes and meatloaf again? No wonder these poor patients are not thriving! Time for a little beef Wellington with some potatoes Anglaise, followed by a Charlotte russe.......calorie count, fluid ...

Yeah! And I believe that this is the abridged version......

Whoa! these stories are a trip.....don't have a gross out one, but the strangest pt I ever had was the guy who came in w/ sepsis, alcohol poisoning....he had a pic of the common housefly tatooed onto the head of his penis (ouch!). Surrounding his per...

Good point about the absorption of lotion--essentailly just a coating to trap natural oils in. I do wonder about our own oils re: latex gloves. If I'm gloved for a length of time (in the same pair) say while assisting in a bedside procedure or during...

I have maybe a dumb question. I was born in 1962--I've HAD the darned vaccine--do I need another one? I won't get another one, I am against this mass vaccination, but isn't the median age of RN something like 46 and doesn't that mean that we all have...

OK, so we have some people double gloving. I still stand by may original question: you don't glove up with hands wet from lotion--how does a product that is already absorbed (essentially) degrade gloves? OR is a different world...but for basic on th...