Mr.RN-CDE

I make a dollar more an hour than I would if I worked the floor. That's it. No 75k, just a dollar for the certification.

This forum is always about whether men should be nurses, etc etc etc.... Let's have some fun guys. Let's face it, we are working in a female dominated field. Many of us previously worked in a male dominated field. SO let's hear some stories. What ha...

My wife and I are both RNs. We are considering relocating to NV. Anybody know the procedure to transfer our licenses from WA to NV?

"and believe me males do not have the monopoly on crudeness and explicit conversation" You got that right. I have at times found a double standard. One night "the girls" at the nursing station had a birthday party for a co-worker. She got a male nudi...

My wife graduated 5 years after me, and I would say things aren't better or worse. All nursing texts are behind the times. Meds change faster than publishers can update etc. But the basics are the same.

I can't see myself doing anything else. Yes, it is frustrating at times. The pts who just tell you what you want to hear and are obviously not doing what is best. But those are outweighed by the one pt who is dx'd with a BG of 1930 mg/dl, who now has...

It is part of a good nurses job. A poor nurse will let the patient sit in their filth until a CNA can come and clean them up. I have no use for nurses who think that cleaning a pt is beneath them.

Hyperglycemia actually causes hunger. The cells trigger the hunger mechanism because although there is tons of glucose in the blood it cannot get to the cells. This is a physiological condition not psychological. Take it from an overweight diabetic, ...

I get frustrated too. We all do. I'm a diabetes educator and I have the 350 lb pt who tells me she only eats 1 time a day and that's a salad, but her BG is still out of control...etc. There are days when I feel like I have been bashing my head agains...

Call your reps. Bayer, Roche (AccuCheck), Abbott (freestyle) Johnson and Johnson (One Touch) all give out free meters. They keep us stocked. BD for supplies, syringes, pen needles, glucose tabs, education materials.

To be a diabetes nurse educator you have to become an RN. (although there are other practices RD, Pharmacy...that can get their CDE as well.) As much as I knew about diabetes going into nursing school, I didn't understand how diabetes interacted with...

High blood sugars put in-patients at high risk for infection among other problems. This is a problem everywhere. Our team is struggling with this and trying to get docs to recognize what a serious problem hyperglycemia is. We have heard that under ne...

they go to western state hospital for a couple days and maybe mary bridge, other than that its all in aberdeen. i was dx with diabetes 10 yrs ago. decided i needed a career change and went to nursing school to become a cde

My wife and I are both RNs and are considering relocating to AZ from WA. Any nurses out there know how difficult it is to transfer our licenses from Washington to Arizona?

Both my wife and I graduated from there. It's the only nursing program that I have been through so I don't have anything to compare it to. It's a good school. As far as clinical sites, the first quarter of the first year is spent in a nursing home. T...

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My wife and I, she's also an RN, are taking a sewing class just so we can learn to make scrub tops.

I had a situation where a 16 year old had an order for a Foley if she did not void by morning. I told the charge nurse that I wouldn't do it. She argued with me about it, saying that if it is ordered I have to do it. I told her that I was not comfort...

We're in no hurry. My wife has Seasonal Affective Disorder. We just don't want to spend another dark cold wet winter in the Pacific Northwest. Forks is only 3 hours north of us, where all the vampires lived in the Twilight books. She may have exagera...

We're in no hurry. My wife has Seasonal Affective Disorder. We just don't want to spend another dark cold wet winter in the Pacific Northwest. Forks is only 3 hours north of us, where all the vampires lived in the Twilight books. She may have exagera...