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  1. Most silly reason for being called in the office?

    zamboni replied to nursebrandie28's topic in Emergency

    Happened to me today. I got called into our new director's office, and before I even sat down, I kinda smiled and said, "This is about the folks in Room 3 last night, isn't it?" We were swamped...

  2. Calling Docs by their first name...

    zamboni posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you work with any that ask you to do this? Does it weird you out at all? I'm a pretty laid back person...like sometimes "check-a-pulse" laidback. :wink2: I'm also pretty self confident and I'm...

  3. Micro at TCC

    zamboni replied to NurseBettyICU's topic in Texas Nursing

    I concur. The man is wonderful! It's a rare teacher who not olny loves his subject matter so much...but loves teaching it to students equally. And his slide collection (yes, the man still uses...

  4. Single Mom Trying To Become A Nurse

    zamboni replied to nursingisforme's topic in General Nursing

    I was also a single mother when I started to school. I qualified for grants, and made the decision to take a bit longer to do my prereqs , so I could pull it off without loans. The Pell covered my...

  5. Blood

    zamboni replied to Nidawi's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds familiar. Thanks

  6. Blood

    zamboni replied to Nidawi's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. This reminded me of something that I hadn't thought of for a long time. Many moons ago, I worked a gig as a phlebotomist in a hospital. We had a patient that routinely came in to have a unit...

  7. Online news article about medical myths tells people not to finish their antibiotics

    zamboni replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    From the article... Wow. Not only do they not know what they're talking about...they don't know what they're doing

  8. What was your job before you became a nurse?

    zamboni replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    My dad was the first television news photographer in Texas (WBAP). I grew up in the news business, and it was a blast having Peter Jennings and Walter Cronkite at the house for some wild Christmas...

  9. Trite Management Platitudes

    zamboni replied to IndySkies's topic in General Nursing

    dang it. my head just

  10. What was your job before you became a nurse?

    zamboni replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    My first job was working with Dad, who was a television news photographer. Awesome job. Bartender at a golf course. Waitress at various places. Horse trainer. Print type setter. Single mom (best job...

  11. Student self eval misrepresentation

    zamboni replied to lsbeth's topic in General Nursing

    I hate self evals, simply because I have never seen it used with any kind of objective standard. Work and school...always the same guessing game. All through school, I would struggle doing self evals...

  12. Nurses malpractice insurance

    zamboni replied to elk007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The way I understand it, at least in Texas, is that unless the nurse has told everyone and their MeeMaw that she/he has liability insurance, it is not known by the plantiffs until the discovery...

  13. first day on floor - will I get better???

    zamboni replied to petrymomRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :wink2: Yes. It will get better. In fact, you will feel a little bit better in a few shifts, maybe even your next one. Then you'll have a shift where you wonder if you can even be trusted with a...

  14. travel nursing nightmare

    zamboni replied to dmarcelal's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, guess I got confused by this.. Best of luck to

  15. Entire ER crew will go to mandatory retreat

    zamboni replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Team Builder-"..and you feel like your coworkers don't respect you why?" Poor sap wearing a stupid hat- "..because of the hat." Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of

  16. travel nursing nightmare

    zamboni replied to dmarcelal's topic in General Nursing

    So, just so I know I've got this straight. You're in one of the most expensive places in the US and haven't worked in almost three weeks...because you don't want to work nights? By all means,...

  17. What do you want to tell Nursing Students?

    zamboni replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    I think that maybe what some of these students may be saying is that it isn't beneficial to them to do nothing but aide duties, particularly second year students. My preception during many of my...

  18. Calling Docs by their first name...

    zamboni replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting replies, thanks all! It's interesting to see how the hospital cultures, regions and our ages kinda make a difference. I'm also glad that it's not just me! :wink2: We did have a doc whose...

  19. Career Dilemma

    zamboni replied to Rodiger's topic in General Nursing

    One of our ER nurses is also a firefighter. In fact, he's going PT at the ER and FT at the fire department, because the retirement is so much better. His FD only works 24 hour shifts, so it'll be...

  20. Need info on what you LOVED about your pinning ceremony

    zamboni replied to Lemur's topic in General Nursing

    Oh! Afterwards? We split and had a big party at a local restraunt. The school had a little gathering with punch and cookies...but since the ceremony was pretty much right at dinner time, most...

  21. Nursing School-"PH"

    zamboni replied to TeresaB930's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! What an awesome gift! Glad you got the info you

  22. the RN's appearance

    zamboni replied to Olli's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I've had my cigarette breaks taken from me. I'm gonna chew gum during my shift (Yay for Orbit!) or I'll be a raving

  23. Need info on what you LOVED about your pinning ceremony

    zamboni replied to Lemur's topic in General Nursing

    The one thing I wish we had done was have the person of our choice pin us. As it was, the director of our program pinned us...and most of us didn't know her from Eve. We all had a special person we...

  24. EMT Training ?

    zamboni replied to DaddyO's topic in General Nursing

    Very well said! I've been a paramedic for 16 years, and finally got too old to do it, so I got my RN. I do love nursing, and it was always the plan...but I'll always be a medic first. I miss it...

  25. What's YOUR nursing obsession?

    zamboni replied to tanthalas's topic in General Nursing

    Mine too! After a patient is D/C'd, I'll take the time to carefully hang the cords seperately and coiled properly, whereas everyone else just bunches them up on one hook. I've had too many criticals...