jlsand

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1. Religion Needed to be a Good Nurse?

   jlsand replied to Kabin's topic in Spirituality

   In a word, NO. I happen to be atheist. I do believe one needs to respect others beliefs, but you yourself DO NOT NEED to be religious or even a theist to be a good nurse. OK, here comes the flaming....:angryfire Oh, and by the way, my being gay makes...

2. Nursing, is it god's work?

   jlsand posted a topic in General Nursing

   The original poster is someone who doesfeel that it was a calling. I am asking that those who do NOT share the original posters sentiments please walk away from this thread and NOT use it as a forum to debate the issue. This is not a new topic for d...

3. Nursing, God's Work

   jlsand replied to Nurse Nevada's topic in General Nursing

   http://www.atheists.org/

4. Nursing, God's Work

   jlsand replied to Nurse Nevada's topic in General Nursing

   What is this "calling" I keep hearing about? I believe some people just "fall into" their jobs through circumstance. Why does it have be a "higher power" that "calls" you? Sure sounds like hooey to me. I noticed that some of you seem pretty angry abo...

5. Nursing, God's Work

   jlsand replied to Nurse Nevada's topic in General Nursing

   I do not want to judge anyone on their faith. But here goes some of my opinion. This is just my opinion, has nothing to do with anyone personally. This isn't a flame or anything.... For those very very few of us out there who are Agnostic or Atheist,...

6. Documentation

   jlsand posted a topic in General Nursing

   Where I work, there are some MD's who seem to take quite a long time to call back when paged. When it comes to documenting, let me know what you think of this: 1800 Pt. reports increase in pain to abdomen. Rates pain 8/10. No nausea or vomiting. Cal...

7. Calling MD's per patient request!!

   jlsand replied to stella123 rn's topic in General Nursing

   I not only will call the doctor, I will be on the phone when he answers, tell him that a family member or the patient is insistent on talking with him/her and I don't care if he/she gets mad or not. You will have a lot less grief if you just let the...

8. Im a student... I need advice!

   jlsand replied to TheSquid's topic in General Nursing

   Graduated in 95, started at $14 an hour. Been an RN for 8 years, now make $27.50. Good benefits. Still have to pay too much for RX meds, though. I work my rear end off making that $27.50 /hr and $28.75 on weekends! My blog

9. Scariest thing you have found

   jlsand replied to moonshadeau's topic in General Nursing

   A new grad hung an insulin drip without using a pump. She asks, "How do you regulate the amount of insulin?" The bag was hanging into the patient, without the use of a pump! I almost pooped right there. The patient turned out fine, though! Close call...

10. Male Nurses.

    jlsand replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in General Nursing

    As a male in nursing, I can say in the 18 years of doing this, I have never seen anything special with male nurses getting more promotions or higher pay. Not at all. I guess I've been lucky to work at institutions that are fair when it comes to gende...

11. Nurses at the Prom!

    jlsand replied to nptobee's topic in General Nursing

    Just a wonderful story! :kiss

12. Do you nurses get breaks?

    jlsand replied to marilynmom's topic in General Nursing

    In a word, yes! I rarely get a full break. As to getting breaks like the law states, forget it! I know there are exceptions out there. Also noticed that smokers seem to get more breaks, too. (woops, there a whole other topic). My blog

13. My Blog

    jlsand posted a topic in General Nursing

    Recently, I talked about blogging here at this forum. I got what I thought was a lot of responses thinking it was somewhat of a useless thing. Well, maybe it is. Anyway.. Please feel free to read what I've put into my blog. A lot of it is venting. I ...

14. Why LPN??

    jlsand replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to say that some of the best nurses I have ever worked with were LPN's. In fact, where I work now, we don't use LPN's and I wish we did sometimes! With this nursing shortage, it would make sense to me to use LPN's more, not less. By the w...

15. Where have all the nurses gone?

    jlsand replied to Lu Dawn's topic in General Nursing

    What a great letter Lu Dawn. I couldn't have said it better myself. I have believed that for years. It's one of the reasons why I like geriatrics better than taking care of the me, me, me generation on a med/surg unit!!! my home page