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  1. Smelly Co-Worker

    LPN1974 replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    I agree...you are doing the kindest thing, in a very confidential way. I hope she gets from you that it is confidential.........I mean as confidential as your conversation goes. Of course everyone...

  2. Smelly Co-Worker

    LPN1974 replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Well, my feelings on this is that if this has been going on for several months, and Bipley says it has, then it very well can become a serious health issue for this nurse. Obviously, she hasn't seen...

  3. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    LPN1974 replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    This reminds me of a little patient I had in the nursing home who would repeat everything she heard on tv. She started calling out, "Channel 7, On My Side." {We have or did have, a program on channel...

  4. Smelly Co-Worker

    LPN1974 replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Did you talk to her

  5. Arg, the Stripe is Separating from My Nurse's Cap

    LPN1974 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Dermabond it. J/K According to how big the stripe is, they make an iron on strip that you place between the stripe and the cap. You get it in the fabrics section of your local WalMart, K-Mart,...

  6. Smelly Co-Worker

    LPN1974 replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Bipley, I think you would make a great friend. I believe it will work out, just because you cared enough to try to come up with a way to help this young lady. Apparently, no one else

  7. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    LPN1974 replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Not debating at all. As I said earlier, I was just looking up for information on this disorder. Let me say my statement another way......"people pleasing" may not necessarily be a specific trait in...

  8. Smelly Co-Worker

    LPN1974 replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Although treatment is available which quickly cures bacterial vaginosis, if left untreated bacterial vaginosis may increase a woman's risk of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), endometritis,...

  9. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    LPN1974 replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I hope you weren't referring to my post. Just to be clear, IF you were, I didn't diagnose anyone nor make any assumptions about anyone. The co-worker nurse that I mentioned in my post told others at...

  10. I just took the NCLEX - PN, my thoughts.

    LPN1974 replied to BigB's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Oh, ok. Well I was just wondering. I had the impression once, long ago that they did, but I guess I was

  11. Asked to work nursing home.. should I do it?

    LPN1974 replied to NurseCard's topic in Agency Nurses

    I have done it in the past, but I won't anymore. The one I worked in, we were short of staff everynight. They would staff us at the minimum requirement, then if anyone called in sick, we were short....

  12. Smelly Co-Worker

    LPN1974 replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    MarySunshine....you have a good way with words. I like your reply and suggestions. It must be a pleasure to have you as a co-worker. If I had a problem I would want you to be the one to tell me...

  13. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    LPN1974 replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    And no offense to you, sms, but I'm enclosing a link, if you will read it, please. I was researching on the traits of people with this disorder and this is where I got my information. I will enclose...

  14. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    LPN1974 replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I recently worked with a nurse who had ADHD. Some of her traits were that she didn't or couldn't listen to things we had told her in the past, and could repeat the same mistake, because she just...

  15. I just took the NCLEX - PN, my thoughts.

    LPN1974 replied to BigB's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I have a question.......but, first, I'll say that I took my boards in 1974, before the NCLEX ever came into being. But I'm wondering why schools don't touch on some of these things that students say...

  16. VIP Patients...A rant

    LPN1974 replied to Headhurt's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I wish they could just make all hospitals with smaller but private rooms for everyone. When I had surgery, I had a roommate who made noises all night long. I could not get any sleep. She...

  17. Getting Fired because of School!!!!Can I apply for unemployment?

    LPN1974 replied to mynameizjim's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Employers and bosses like what has been described in these posts don't care anything about the employees. They just want the job, shifts, nights, weekends, whatever covered so THEY don't have to cover...

  18. Why are established nurses not helpful to students?

    LPN1974 replied to chickdude1's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry you had a bad day. Nurses like that ......well, I just don't know what to say about nurses like that. I love teaching and orienting new nurses or students to the facility. In fact, where I...

  19. Routine AIDS testing for......

    LPN1974 replied to LPN1974's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I could be wrong, but I was quite sure that I saw something indicating an AIDS/HIV test while I was in for surgery. I haven't worked in a hospital for years, so I'm just not up to date on...

  20. Routine AIDS testing for......

    LPN1974 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is it a routine procedure to test patients for AIDS/HIV when they come into the hospital for surgery or any kind of prolonged hospital stay? When I had surgery they tested me for AIDS.....I'm quite...

  21. Routine AIDS testing for......

    LPN1974 replied to LPN1974's topic in General Nursing

    How could I go about getting those records? It has been several years since I had the surgery. I am just curious, and I don't remember signing any consent, but of course it has been a long time, and...

  22. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    LPN1974 replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I'd had a computer and access to a board like this when I was in LPN school........as my nick indicates.....I graduated in 1974, so I was in school all of 1973. Nursing students today have so...

  23. treating a visitor of your pt? reprimanded for not doing it....

    LPN1974 replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree with some of what you have written. I don't think it is staff nurses responsibility to check out every little ache and pain and complaint that a visitor has. We are there to treat the...

  24. treating a visitor of your pt? reprimanded for not doing it....

    LPN1974 replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I've been reading this thread with great interest and concern. It is not my intention to derail the thread from the original poster, but I have a question, and figured since this thread is so...

  25. State Survey...Advice Please

    LPN1974 replied to annabrooke93's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Maybe some suggestions to help the staff nurses would be in order. Like maybe proper staffing, and not overworking the nurses to the point of exhaustion. Understaffing equals mistakes in alot of...