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5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER

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    What do patients say that irks you?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    "I take lithium as a supplement" (actual quote from last Friday) I heard this from a pt. while i was walkking down the hall. I would have loved to have heard the rest of the
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    Satisfied with Remaining an LPN?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Thank you. And hopefully i won't corrupt them
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    10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Suck for me" (suctioning for a
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    10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    "How much tail do you want?" (asking a surgeon how much of the tail of a silicone ear patch he wants left
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    Crocs!

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to mel1977's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have found that some cheaper versions aren't always as good. Some of the cheaper ones were harder,
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    "Just" a 2-year degree

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

    Agreeing with you, unfortunately, certain people take threads like this and use it as an opportunity to degrade and insult
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    "Just" a 2-year degree

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

    Ah, so what was that remark about new grads being
  8. Marie_LPN, RN

    What do patients say that irks you?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    LOL!!!!!!!
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    Crocs!

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to mel1977's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Necessary, not really (they make a model that has no holes or vents also) but they keep my feet
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    "Just" a 2-year degree

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

    Amen.
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    "Just" a 2-year degree

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

    So one person makes a comment like that and the whole board catches the lecture for it? I highly agree with the poster that is requesting that this thread doesn't degenerate into yet ANOTHER ADN/BSN...
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    "Just" a 2-year degree

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

    The poster you are refering to was referencing the BSN program that she is "currently in", not all of
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    Is there power in the color white?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    Amen.
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    Crocs!

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to mel1977's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Jibbitz is in the works of being bought by
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    UPDATE on "son got wrong vaccination"

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to hotshot05's topic in General Nursing

    Kinda makes me wonder what their actions would have been if an adverse reaction had occured. I'm getting the impression that because there wasn't any adverse reaction (this time), that it's no big...
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    what the heck are medical assistant schools doing !

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

    Unfortunately, no, to a point, it never fails that there's always someone that blindly thinks the problem is always an age-based
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    Nurses don't have a hard job

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

    Someone said this to my husband once ("so she stands there and hands instruments to a surgeon all day, anyone can do that"). He said "That's not all she does 10, 12, or 16 hours a day, and if i even...
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    What Three Words....

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Advocate, caring, yet
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    ortho question that will stump you!

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to rnparrot's topic in Orthopedic

    It's Depuy, an orthopaedics company owned Johnson and Johnson (J and J being the same company that makes baby powder and band-aids). http://www.depuyorthopaedics.com/bgdisplay.jhtml?itemname=patients...
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    Areas of OR nursing

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to Sammy25's topic in Operating Room

    Or 12-16
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    Latex-Free Operating Room

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to lostfromlatex's topic in Operating Room

    Our OR is not specifically latex free, BUT we have 3 nurses who have a latex allergy. We have vinyl exam gloves for them, latex-free sterile gloves that can be used for prepping or if they scrub. We...
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    Experienced Nurses Only

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

    This,
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    Experienced Nurses Only

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

    i wasn't threatened. i took issue with the holier-than-thou-ness of the op's posting, not to mention her idea of an experienced 'nurses' forum being only for "practicing rns". that's offensive. now a...
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    Advice Please! A cna spread a rumor about me.

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

    I agree. Any needlestick i've dealt with (2 suture sticks so far) was kept private, as it should be. It's not the matter of confronting her that i see the problem with, it's the matter that she...
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    Satisfied with Remaining an LPN?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I would be satisfied with being an LPN, but i also want to teach a nursing college class someday, and i can't do that as an LPN. I remember where someone on this board, also an LPN, was asking 'well...