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    Your Favorite and Your Weirdest

    EarthChild1130 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this is weird AND my favorite...I dunno...I like doing takedowns. Maybe I should've been a cop. I know a lot of ER nurses like the adrenaline of doing those intense traumas...I guess that's my...
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    Religion and Nursing

    EarthChild1130 replied to tryingpatsy's topic in General Nursing

    am working on my project still...and now i a m focusing on religion and nursing.... 1. What do you classify your religion as? I'm Pagan 2. has it ever effected your work? Not really in a sense of...
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    Has anyone picked a specialty before nursing school and actually done it after?

    EarthChild1130 replied to nohika's topic in General Nursing

    I knew I wanted to do psych before I started school...did my practicum in psych and worked as a mental health tech during school, and once I graduated I worked psych ever since (did my obligatory year...
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    Gloves and injections

    EarthChild1130 replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    I give a LOT of injections and I wear gloves for EVERY SINGLE one...some of my patients are bleeders, and quite a few of them have HIV and Hep C, among other things...I have also heard of 'the...
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    Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    EarthChild1130 replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    This happened today...a secretary, after reading the list of diagnoses on a progress note, asked me, "What are those letters in front of the diagnosis for?" I said "Um, those are Roman numerals..."...
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    Showing your respect to the Deaf patient

    EarthChild1130 replied to Inspired By Silence's topic in General Nursing

    Great post!! I REALLY want to go back to school to take classes in ASL...I feel it would be helpful for me and my patients! Thanks for sharing this information with
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    How many of you are on prescription drugs for anxiety, depression, mental health?

    EarthChild1130 replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not on meds for mental health issues but I work with people who are and we work at outpatient mental health. Would rather work with people who take their meds (for ALL health issues, including...
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    Friends at work?

    EarthChild1130 replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    I have made 3 very good friends at the job that I have now, in our group of 57 people...one doctor, 2 case managers...but I don't go to work to make friends. I have friends as well who have nothing...
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    Rules of the Dr.office

    EarthChild1130 replied to prowlingMA's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    16. Please note that if you call up here and threaten to throw me out the window, I won't be thrilled to see you (by the way, we close at 5, my window is small, and I'm a rather husky girl). 17....
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    3 days a week vs 5 days a week

    EarthChild1130 replied to bcyogi's topic in General Nursing

    I work outpatient county mental health, and THE ONLY thing I don't like about my job is the 5-day workweek...I work 8am-5pm 5 days a week...so everything is closed by the time I get off, and I live in...
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    Words you never dreamed you would say as a nurse...

    EarthChild1130 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Some of my more memorable ones: "How in the H*** did you get a razor blade in your lady parts without cutting yourself?"--said to a suicidal/borderline psych admit who was being admitted to our unit...
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    How long is too long to give "No PIV meds" in a PIV?

    EarthChild1130 replied to Pat_Pat RN's topic in General Nursing

    This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it does give some interesting info on Vanco.. http://www.clinicaliq.com/content/vanco.pdf My best answer would be to use the policies/procedures for your...
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    Question on a test for employment

    EarthChild1130 replied to suzieqmo's topic in General Nursing

    Agree totally with the person right above
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    Clinic nurse vs hospital nurse

    EarthChild1130 replied to esthomprn's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I can only vouch for what I do as a clinic nurse, but I work at a mental health clinic, so that's probably a totally different animal. Our focus is not 'medical' so I would likely be a bit...
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    Manic patient education

    EarthChild1130 replied to Jess1990's topic in Patient Education

    I use NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) as a source for some things (http://www.nami.org) because they have some wonderful resources for illness education. You can also check out Mental...
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    Where do you work?

    EarthChild1130 replied to jlove86's topic in General Nursing

    So, what type of facility do you work in? outpatient county mental health clinic What unit? No unit...just as above...it's 2 docs, 1 nurse practitioner, and lil' ol' me! Do you work part-time or full...
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    I got resistance when giving IM injection in deltoid. What does that mean?

    EarthChild1130 replied to saigelily's topic in General Nursing

    I do a LOOOOTTTT of shots because I do a weekly injection clinic for my guys who receive long-acting antipsychotics such as Haldol, Prolixin, and Risperdal Consta, and we give about 20 shots a week,...
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    Doctor's Fiancee yelled at me

    EarthChild1130 replied to QTpie86's topic in General Nursing

    This is ridiculous. Why on earth would someone go through school to become a nurse just to marry a doctor?? My 13 year-old niece is more mature than that! I became a nurse because I love the field...
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    Wasting Narcotics

    EarthChild1130 replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with everybody else here. I wouldn't have witnessed it either. You did the right
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    I start my new job tomorrow!

    EarthChild1130 replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good luck!!!
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    In what department do you not wipe the backside?

    EarthChild1130 replied to mirgadia05's topic in General Nursing

    Guess what, OP? You'll even see poop in psych! Your patients will throw it at you, write on the walls with it, smear it on themselves AND on you, and they might even EAT it! Oh, the horror...seems...
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    ANYBody work for county health department

    EarthChild1130 replied to aminv's topic in General Nursing

    I'm on the phone quite a bit at my office. But there is another lady in my office, who works in records, and they have a special phone for her to use because she wears hearing aids too. I believe...
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    "disturbed Energy Field" ...Really?

    EarthChild1130 replied to dannyc12's topic in General Nursing

    I did it for SCHOOL careplans...I was not a practicing nurse...if I can find some of my old ones I will share them with you. And, per NANDA, they ARE nursing related, in that this is a nursing...
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    10 Questions from a pre nursing student

    EarthChild1130 replied to cindylee29's topic in General Nursing

    Name (First Name): Tisha Job Title: RN Place of Employment (Hospital, Doctors Office, Etc.): county mental health office Interview questions: How long have you been a nurse? 4 years What kind of...
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    what else could be going on with my patient?

    EarthChild1130 replied to rnto?'s topic in General Nursing

    I would guess DIC and/or an intestinal