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

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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    Guess i'll be a seeker the next time i'm in severe
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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    Understandable.
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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    By doing a search on Google, about "tips" for getting a fix, this thread wasn't showing up on the first 25 pages of results. Actually nothing allnurses related, either. And, let's see here, how many...
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    Traction tech and not an LPN

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to sunbeach73's topic in General Nursing

    That's what it sounds like to me as
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    Is there a history behind the white?

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

    One of the cool things about our ceremony, was going from that fugly clinical outfit to an actual new nurse's uniform. I wouldn't have wanted to wear the same thing i'd been wearing for 2 years to an...
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    Stupid little mistakes....

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

    DuraPrep or Chlorprep, either one is like glue on a gel
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    Be Careful!

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

    I asked a question to the OP. The last two sentences of your post contradict themselves. Done
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    Be Careful!

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

    Why not direct this at the people you're actually annoyed at instead of ripping total strangers here a new
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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    Yep that's exactly what it sounds like . Here's hoping the OP gets care from kind, nondismissive professionals if and when they need
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    Patients who fib about being NPO...

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to ortess1971's topic in Operating Room

    I don't know how many times a pt. says they don't have any body jewelry in "right now", yet, there's their tongue ring (a disaster waiting to happen), belly ring, and uh other rings and posts. We had...
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    Stupid little mistakes....

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

    We cover our gel pads (sheets or pillowcases), so they're easier to clean (DuraPrep sticks to them easil, but rubbing alcohol takes that
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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    We had planned ahead, and that still happened. We can try and plan ahead for that again, but the next time could be
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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    I thought the same thing, till that happened to me last year. Here i was in a fetal position crying, begging for relief from the worst migraine i'd ever had, and got treated like a FF drug seeker,...
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    Clinical Checkoffs

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to srg4784's topic in General Students

    We had a checkoff we had to complpete in "skills" in class before we could go to clinical. Then we got a new checkoff sheet that we had for clinical, that had to be finished by the end of the
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    OR nurses operating C-arm Fluoro?

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

    I wear lead, since i'm usually standing right next to the machine when it goes off. I'd eventually like to have children someday, i don't want to take even the slightest
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    *~Human Development

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to ChargeNurseAmy74's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, i can't recall the name of the book we used, but i recall the Freud was in every single chaper. Also talked about different cultures, types of families, and their influences on child...
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    Want your hospital to treat your loved one?

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

    The hospital where my husband (*cough cough COUGH*, that WORD:eek: ) works, from start to finish, yes. Where i work, pre-op, yes, peri-op, yes, PACU yes, but the floors, no. There are some great...
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    Spacenurse: Critcial Care Preceptor & Nursing Activist

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

    Wow. Thank
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    FIVE-STAR experience in a Luxury Hospital?

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

    All of my nursing books have used the word "client" but i have yet to hear this word at all where i
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    Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    My sympathy to the OP. It's very sad that things are the way they are nowadays that someone asks how to not appear as a drug
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    Absolutely refuse to take Nclex again

    Marie_LPN, RN replied to KKA22's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    First, you don't know if you failed. This is probably going to sound harsh, but how many other things have you failed at in life and just gave up on, and how many will happen in the future? Life is...
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    FIVE-STAR experience in a Luxury Hospital?

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

    No, actually i see the bigger picture on it, which is why i still say no to it, for my work, and my personal healthcare. That statement was made for my own career choice, and why, and not what's best...
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    Where was your first LPN job?

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

    The OR. I work mianly daytime hours, and the extra hours i work are by my choice. We work calltime every 10th weekend. Every place is different,
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    FIVE-STAR experience in a Luxury Hospital?

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

    I can almost see that as being some sort of therapy though. For the pt. to be getting back to their daily activities (aside from all the cable TV channels available). We once had a CEO (only way i...
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    FIVE-STAR experience in a Luxury Hospital?

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

    Almost choked on my soup when i read this. When i take care of my pts. "comfort and emotional needs", i couldn't give a flying rat's rear how much money that have don't have, nor is it even on my...