PowerPuffGirl

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1. The dreaded panty line.......

   PowerPuffGirl replied to colleen10's topic in General Students

   I've had luck with wearing 'skintoned' underwear (a pale, pale pink, in my case), and getting my pants a size too large, so they're not too fitted. I have a friend who used weak tea to dye her white...

2. Home birth vs. hospital

   PowerPuffGirl replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

   If homebirths tend to be low-risk pregnancies, can we really make a fair comparison of homebirth outcomes vs. hospital

3. Does YOUR licensing body give out your address?

   PowerPuffGirl replied to nell's topic in General Nursing

   That does it, I am not only getting a PO Box, but I am also changing my name to something like Jane Doe or Jennifer

4. Nurses Don't Accept Gifts

   PowerPuffGirl replied to roxannekkb's topic in General Nursing

   Hmmm... I know that when I was born, in 1976, it was common practice for the moms to give the student nurses assigned to them a small gift- usually a bracelet charm or a pendant, or a pair of earrings...

5. Nurses Don't Accept Gifts

   PowerPuffGirl replied to roxannekkb's topic in General Nursing

   Hmmm... I know that when I was born, in 1976, it was common practice for the moms to give the student nurses assigned to them a small gift- usually a bracelet charm or a pendant, or a pair of earrings...

6. Foreign nurses who can't speak English well

   PowerPuffGirl replied to PhePhe's topic in General Nursing

   About a month ago, I had to take my partner to the ER. Her nurse (an RN) spoke very broken English and had great difficulty understanding spoken English. It was very frustrating (and frightening!)...

7. Teen daughters 1st pelvic exam...

   PowerPuffGirl replied to itsme's topic in Ob/Gyn

   One thing that helped me feel comfortable before my first pelvic exam was reading "Our Bodies; Ourselves". It explains the procedure fairly well, and the empowerment-tone is good. You might want to...

8. Let's talk about acrylic nails ...

   PowerPuffGirl replied to SC RN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   I must be related to y'all, because my natural nails are the same way! I just got rid of my very short, gel overlay, last month, because school dress code doesn't permit them. And my nails are...

9. how do you keep a nursing cap on?

   PowerPuffGirl replied to PowerPuffGirl's topic in General Nursing

   I'd been thinking maybe a hot glue gun? I did a Yahoo! search on this and found instructions that involved taking a lock of hair, coiling it, spraying it with hairspray, putting a little square of...

10. how do you keep a nursing cap on?

    PowerPuffGirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I don't want this to turn into a thread about whether or not nursing caps should be worn (lord knows there's about 200 threads like that, on this board, already!), but I do have a question: For those...