aeauooo

aeauooo

neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine

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  1. nurse strikes

    aeauooo replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    You're deflecting from my point. By crossing a picket line you are undermining the sacrifices being made by striking

  2. No more internet access

    aeauooo replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely! The CDC (www.cdc.gov) is, as far as I'm concerned, the best source of publicly available information on infectious diseases and vaccinations. As a neuro nurse, I recommend the National...

  3. nurse strikes

    aeauooo replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    What have you just done? You've generalizing your experience from one hospital to other striking nurses. I've been a staff nurse at hospitals where the nurses were represented by a union and others...

  4. Career ending mistakes?

    aeauooo replied to emsillystudent's topic in General Nursing

    Chill. "Career ending errors" are extremely rare. You will more than likely know you are on that track long before you get there. Medication errors happen - every nurse has made at least one (that is,...

  5. It's 6:59!!! For pity's sake!

    aeauooo replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    After working a 12 hours shift I doubt I would have had the capacity to 'be nice' if I had been faced with such an absurd demand. I guess my idea of being nice would have been to have handed her a...

  6. Patients that are hospitalized because of a dare...

    aeauooo replied to NsgChica's topic in General Nursing

    There's a bad joke in there

  7. It's 6:59!!! For pity's sake!

    aeauooo replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    Excuse me?! Rule #4: I go home on

  8. No more internet access

    aeauooo replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    I have an issue with the quality and reliability of medical information available on the Internet. There are some very good sites out there, and some extremely bad information. I have two particular...

  9. Patients that are hospitalized because of a dare...

    aeauooo replied to NsgChica's topic in General Nursing

    Wuss!

  10. Patients that are hospitalized because of a dare...

    aeauooo replied to NsgChica's topic in General Nursing

    Testosterone + alcohol = job

  11. It's 6:59!!! For pity's sake!

    aeauooo replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    I don't want the off-going nurse staying after her/his shift to take care of something that wasn't done before the begninng of my shift - it interferes my ability to start my day. When an off-going...

  12. Nurses that "eat your lunch" during report!

    aeauooo replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Nursing

    One thing that I have seen so many times that I believe it is universal is that the nitpicky, critical nurses always fall on their faces as some point and make themselves look like total jackasses....

  13. No more internet access

    aeauooo replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    That's what textbooks and handbooks are for. Many of us remember the time when no one had ever heard the word "Internet." Internet access at work is a convenience, but not a

  14. nurse strikes

    aeauooo replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    I thought I had made it clear that that is a lesson I learned the hard way. If you feel okay scabbing, that's your business, but keep in mind that you are undermining the efforts of permanent staff to...

  15. nurse strikes

    aeauooo replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    One falsehood that persists in nursing is that it the staff nurses' responsibility to make sure the hospital is adequately staffed. It isn't - it's the responsibility of nursing management and...

  16. Assault Reduction

    aeauooo replied to imh_assault's topic in General Nursing

    When I started as a new nurse, the RNI orientation at Harborview in Seattle included a session on "aggression control," which was essentially a self-defense class with instruction on how to take...

  17. Nurses that "eat your lunch" during report!

    aeauooo replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to nursing! You're describing the reason I questioned whether I wanted to remain in nursing for the first several years of my career. I'm not going to go into the psychology of what you are...

  18. Glossary of Nursing/Medical Degrees-Certifications & Allied Heath Certifications

    aeauooo replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

    CTropMed: Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, offered by the American Society of Tropical Medicine &

  19. Well, I am a doctor

    aeauooo replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    It wouldn't matter if the person on the other end of the phone was an MD. Physicians can be just as clueless as anyone else. Besides, she/he is not writing orders and therefore is not putting her/his...

  20. Insults from a colleague

    aeauooo replied to Nella007's topic in General Nursing

    There have been many studies on horizontal hostility in nursing. Nurses rate physicians, patients, and patients' families as the most frequent source of hostility, but hostility from other nurses as...

  21. BLS or ACLS?

    aeauooo replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    No one expects a new grad to complete ACLS. It's a lot to learn, and as a new grad, you already have enough on your plate. Besides, BLS is the most important part of

  22. An answer to them calling everyday!

    aeauooo replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    This is what agency nurses are for. It is not your responsibility to staff a short-staffed unit - it's not your problem, so don't let them make it your problem. That's why managers get paid the big...

  23. "A BP of 70/30 is normal"

    aeauooo replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see in your post that you reported that the patient was symptomatic. That's the flip side of "treat the patient, not the number." In addition to getting the doc's attention, it would give you...

  24. Volunteer Nursing

    aeauooo replied to maggieo34's topic in General Nursing

    I spent a year volunteering in Ethiopia - but it doesn't sound like that's what you are looking for. From the research that I did, I suspect that if you want to go for a short mission, you'll have to...

  25. sorry! Bird Flu

    aeauooo replied to calliesue's topic in General Nursing

    The pandemic influenza virus does not yet exist. It is very likely that H5N1 will cross with a human influenza virus and become a human H5N1 virus. The currrent H5N1 has not been demonstrated to be...