bluesky

bluesky BSN, RN

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  1. does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    bluesky replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I don't think Einstein ever said that religious dogma should be taught in public

  2. does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    bluesky replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    TT was a rather innocuous subject in my nursing education. Basically, it was described as the benefit that nurses have over other practitioners based on their constancy with the patient and their...

  3. RUDE pt and spouse=everyone fired from care!

    bluesky replied to melrina75's topic in General Nursing

    This is soooo true. We once had a patient that lingered in the ICU for almost 8 months. Over time, the wife became increasingly controlling, unreasonable and despotic. While she had her reasons to...

  4. An ethical question.

    bluesky replied to workingforskies's topic in General Nursing

    Pehaps it might help to think about it this way... Why not be an advocate for the innocent people who may get permanently injurred, killed or lose loved ones should this woman not learn her lesson...

  5. POLL: Do you still use trendelenburg?

    bluesky posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Hi all. I am currently switching jobs. At my old job, using trendelenberg was a complete no-no because of the evidence-based studies. At my new job, however, when I mention this I get weird looks...

  6. NP w/no desire for RN?

    bluesky replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Funny. I'm a kick-orifice SICU RN with 2 yrs experience, soon to be entering CRNA school, svelte and training for triathlon and I am way ... way... WAY better than if I had just jumped into it with...

  7. is it worth driving 20 miles to work to get paid 6 dollars more?

    bluesky replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well the money does sound good... and if the commute is the only thing holding you back, that is, you know that benefits, management, and other working conditions are as good at the new place, then go...

  8. Breastfeeding and shiftwork - does it work?

    bluesky replied to jeepgirl's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi. I stayed home (going to school only) for the first 11 months while breastfeeding. I then graduated, started working, and continued to breastfeed while working three 12's a week for another 2...

  9. Both my patients died the other night...my first ones

    bluesky replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Melanie. I am so proud of you! You were brave enough to actually feel the drama of the experience that we live everyday. And you dealt with your feelings in a healthy, honorable and productive way...

  10. Can you believe this ?!!?

    bluesky posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    OK. So I have this crani that we were having a really hard time controlling her BP. Resistant to beta blockers, etc. So my preceptor (just started at a new hospital) tells me to give the...

  11. How do you deal with anti-OB people?

    bluesky replied to ParasMom's topic in General Nursing

  12. How do you deal with anti-OB people?

    bluesky replied to ParasMom's topic in General Nursing

    I am definitely not an L&D nurse, nor do I ever plan on it. I did just want to mention my own experience with childbirth, though. I was completely gung ho about having an epidural ! I wanted...

  13. WHY are nurses so catty??

    bluesky replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Clearly men are

  14. I forgot to give report!

    bluesky replied to nursejohio's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It is a pretty graphic expression, come to think of it! :) Peace in the New

  15. I resigned today...

    bluesky replied to justavolunteer's topic in General Nursing

    Hey that is sooooo exactly what I was thinking!!!

  16. Can you believe this ?!!?

    bluesky replied to bluesky's topic in MICU, SICU

    This post

  17. Need advice badly.

    bluesky replied to clee1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A word of caution. I was a paramedic from 1992-1998 when I had my first seizure and they wouldn't let me anymore. I applied to nursing school in 2002 and graduated with my BSN in 2004. When I...

  18. RN's out of school for at least 1 year

    bluesky replied to Ashes's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have had mixed experiences... highs and lows, a lot of learning. I have met some truely wonderful people and some real shmucks. I guess overall despite the warts and all, I'm still glad I did it....

  19. Need advice badly.

    bluesky replied to clee1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My first thought is, why not get your RN right away? Most of the CNA positions I have witnessed have not required too many nursing skills (exception long term care where they are the nurses for all...

  20. Man-hater in my clinical

    bluesky replied to tiezto's topic in Male Nursing Students

    OK, so men didn't enter the profession because they were afraid of being stereotyped? Now that's a real

  21. Need advice badly.

    bluesky replied to clee1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you are an EMT-Paramedic, that experience far exceeds anything you will have in the hospital as a CRNA except perhaps getting to know the environment. If your non-medical job is higher paying and...

  22. need help deciding on a second foreign language

    bluesky replied to sdmama's topic in Florida Nursing

    Yeah. My husband told me that if you want any kind of decent salary working ER, you have to speak Spanish. Not that he's ever lived there, but I'm sure he's flirted with a lot of ER nurses who have...

  23. ICU - Should I stay or go?

    bluesky replied to OahuRN's topic in General Nursing

    OK. Well then the unit you were on was a towering inferno of incompetence that will unfortunately be supremely difficult and time consuming to battle. Furthermore, it won't get you any closer to...

  24. Q+A piece: Men in Nursing and why there are no grants for men pursuing nursing school

    bluesky replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Men in Nursing

    NOBODY offered me grants for being female when I was one of 5 females in my class in engineering

  25. I forgot to give report!

    bluesky replied to nursejohio's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sorry but the expression is there for a reason. The reason is that there is an unfortunate practice among older, bitter, mean-spirited nurses of treating new people poorly. Now fortunately only a...