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oncnursemsn

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  1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    oncnursemsn replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don't get hospitalized on a heme/onc floor with sick and dying cancer patients and complain about your alcoholic cirrhosis and irritating IV line. Same patient on same floor- our food is not the...

  2. Medical Mission Trip to Haiti to teach nurses

    oncnursemsn replied to oncnursemsn's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you sirI! Yes, please move this thread if appropriate. I am thankful that I was able to go to Haiti, and I agree that all people in our country should experience a developing nation at least...

  3. What is NS NOT compatible with?

    oncnursemsn replied to 2blessed2Bstressed's topic in General Nursing

    Hi "2blessed", great question! I know of just 2 medications that are NOT compatible with normal saline: amphotericin B (for fungal infections) and GM-CSF (Sargramostim) to stimulate granulocytes and...

  4. Gving all the meds all at once?

    oncnursemsn replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    This posting is where experience, what we're taught in school and reality have a major collision. As nursing instructor, and a still practicing nurse, I am always struck by how rigidly we teach our...

  5. Not impressed with clinical group and instructor

    oncnursemsn replied to 1Tulip's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I've read most of the posts, and as both nursing faculty (clinical and theory) and work in my own practice on a BMT unit, I can say that there's nothing wrong with expecting nursing students to bathe,...

  6. There is no real nurse shortage?

    oncnursemsn replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    I can't speak in an educated way about "staff nurses" or those who are providing direct care. My sense is that there is a nurse shortage- with many different causes. As a nursing instructor for a...

  7. help!

    oncnursemsn replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't worry! Documentation that's 40 minutes off isn't going to be that scrutinized. If you signed our multiple narcs, etc on your patients, it would create a warning depending on your pharmacy...

  8. New Grad- Bone Marrow Transplant Unit

    oncnursemsn replied to sunnydaydream's topic in Oncology

    What a great question- I teach nursing students and work part time on a BMT unit in Boston. Starting off in BMT you will have a lot to learn. Be patient and know that it will take a good year before...

  9. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    oncnursemsn replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work in bone marrow transplant, but we had a bed and it was winter (Boston). An elderly lady was admitted with the chief complaint of "I need new glasses." Only at our hospital... She lived in a...

  10. I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

    oncnursemsn replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    I love seeing what people were before going into nursing. I teach at a small ADN nursing program and one of my former students got his Master's degree in English lit from Leeds University in England!...

  11. Hi!

    oncnursemsn replied to nrtrn's topic in Travel

    Hi nrtrn! I'm new too, just joined yesterday. You should have gotten a welcome email, just click on the link and it should take you right to the video of Brian's instructions. Very helpful, just...

  12. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    oncnursemsn replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is a great thread- I work on a BMT unit where we give a lot of blood products. When the cells have infused, I explain that "I'm putting you on the rinse cycle." I've used it so much we'll have...

  13. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    oncnursemsn replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    this is a great post! i was caring for a very sensitive oncology patient who had spend hundreds of her own dollars for wigs when she went bald from chemo. she mentioned many times how important her...

  14. Nurse Educators, Introduce Yourselves!

    oncnursemsn replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Hi! This is a great forum, should have joined earlier! I am a nurse educator at a small ADN college just outside Boston and also work in town on an adult BMT unit. I wish more was being done about...