Marie_LPN, RN LPN, RN

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

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    An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

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

    It is garbage, but as long as people are buying, it will continue to be
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    What do patients say that irks you?

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

    Actual statement made by a pt today: "Am i allergic to latex? Well, when i pull on a pair of latex gloves, and my skin will get red right where the cuff gets snapped on my skin, that's it." In other...
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    An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

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

    I can just hear the TV ads for Lysol now lol "Mmmm honey, ya got that Lysol -fresh scent goin' on tonight. Wanna fool
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    An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

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

    Oooo just when i had burned the memories of the Lysol douche thread out of my brain lol. Important to marital happiness is flushing your parts with Lysol???? LOL!!! (Matt's over at his desk gagging at...
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    Areas of OR nursing

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

    Neuro, Cardiac, and Ortho are all three the most challenging to me, more than General or Gyn. ENT cases (like facial fractures or radical necks) can be challenging, so can some of our urology cases,...
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    An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

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

    It's not just your soapbox, i'm sick of all that please-your-man mentality crap too, and why i dumped Cosmo. And i'd thought that maybe i'd outgrowns Cosmo, but looking at a decade's old issue...
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    Ethical considerations

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

    As much as i may hate and despise people who do things like that, when they are my pt., i have to give equal care to
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    Professional personal persona?

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

    I second this. You never know the real reason someone's not smiling. Someone did that to me a week after my Grandma had died, and i just wanted to smack
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    How many people thought A & P was easy?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to DAMomma's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    A and P were a breeze for me, but i think that's because i have read about things like that in my spare time for over a
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    Crocs!

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

    Theree's a pair of Crocs ("Silver Cloud") that supposedly had silver particles mixed in the material that combats odor, fungus, and microbes. The other models are labeled as "bacterial and odor...
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    what the heck are medical assistant schools doing !

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

    I don't see anything on this thread that's been a flamewar (yet) for anything about MAs, except the schools that perpetuate false advertising and inflated promises (the
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    Crocs!

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

    I always wear socks for them at work. My feet would sweat too much in a plastic-type shoe and my foot would slide around. Plus the heel strap would rub my heel raw without socks at work. My home pair...
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    What do they teach you in LVN vs. RN school?

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

    My LPN school: Yes
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    what the heck are medical assistant schools doing !

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

    We must have seen the same commercial. I saw a commerical very similar to that the last weekend i went to DC, and it talked about the "rewarding career in just a few months instead of years", and the...
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    Operating times

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

    10 HOURS????? Is he a part of a surgical group? Are there any other general surgeons there? When we had a problem like this with one of our ortho docs (who took 7 hours on a simple fracture),...
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    "Med-Surg first"..need advice from a student RN

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

    It could but then again there have been plenty of new grads that went straight to the OR after graduation and did just fine. Some facilities differ in their length of orientation. Most facilities,...
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    Good Nursing Shoes??

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

    Danskos can be odoriffic, even with
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    How early do you need to come to the clinicals?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to mmr2's topic in General Students

    We were to be there a half hour early, so that we could get our assignments, and get to the floor at clinical
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    Remaking American Medicine miniseries to air

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

    I ordered the DVD. I won't remember to record it, and i'm sure Matt wants to see it as
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    How about a thread for baby names you liked?

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

    Heard the name 'Christophel' for a boy the other day instead of 'Christopher'. I thought that was
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    can i move it here?

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

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    Favorite Voice Recorder?

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to tanner523's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Some professors are afraid that someone might take their words out of context on a voice recorder. Also, perhaps the professor has been burned in the past by a voice recorder. And, last but not...
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    Oops, sorry! Son got wrong vaccination

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

    Mmmm, unless this office is owned by the hospital or if the rude worker is employed by the hospital, the hospital wouldn't really play any part in
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    Help!! Row over sterile trolleys

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to dippy7's topic in Operating Room

    What is the surgeon's rationale for
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    Help!! Row over sterile trolleys

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to dippy7's topic in Operating Room

    The tray for our totals stays at the end of the bed, to allow clearance for the limb when 'testing' the trial prostheses. The table, oh heck let's see if i can "draw" a picture, because i know i won't...