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  1. Oh wow! I'm going to be a nurse!

    A co-worker who had been a CNA and was now a new nurse told me she checked a pt vs, found something alarming and was on her way down the hall to find the nurse and report it when she suddenly...
  2. Gum Chewing

    I get dry mouth and quite thirsty while working so I do occasionally chew gum:quietly with my mouth closed and never when I am with a pt. My kids' friends were always told if I could hear them...
  3. Which is better? Day or Night shift for new grad?

    I learned so much as a new grad on nights because there were nurses that were great teachers and great role models, there was less chaos of pts coming and going to tests, procedures, etc. It was a...
  4. To be Salaried or Not.

    I would have to be desperate to agree to a salaried position (never say never!). I know very few salaried peiople who only work the 40 hours they are paid for. They always say they will get "comp"...
  5. COBRA insurance between jobs....

    Look at a thread titled "cobra insurance seriously" (couple of pages back). in it people talk about not having to pay the entire premium due to something Obama passed. Good
  6. trouble pronoucing some medical words

    It doesn't help that some words are pronounced differently depending on where a person goes to school! I had an instructor in Indiana who was from Georgia....she pronounced alveoli to rhyme with...
  7. Do you personally know someone who has lost his/her license?

    Sadly, I have worked with several who have lost their careers du to diverting drugs. Even more sadly, I have worked with two who were being given second chances and again failed. All of the ones I...
  8. A New Prespective on the Nursing Profession

    As I near the end of my 40th(!) year in nursing I continue with one very firm belief...if our profession were male dominated we would be earning twice as much and be required to do half as much to...
  9. Feeling bad because I didn't "go with my gut"

    Lovenox "until ambulatory" is too vague and in my opinion is a poor order on the MD part. How ambulatory is ambulatory??? A pt walking six steps to a BSC is ambulating but certainly not enough. Is...
  10. Should I really do this?

    Having been a nurse for many,many years I have seen the job availability wax and wane numerous times. My generation (baby boomers) is nearing retirement age and we will need caregivers! I always...
  11. Need nursing cap tutorial!

    Oh my gosh! I had forgotten the x bobby pin
  12. Middle aged men are such babies!!

    Since I have very low pain tolerance I can usually empathize with pts longer than some. Having said that, I have bee known to tell a pt "you have had surgery, you are not going to be pain free but we...
  13. Lack of electrical outlets

    The best unit improvement project I ever saw was our Nurse Manager getting administration to agree to have power strips installed at the head of the bed on all our med surg rooms! Seems there are...
  14. Nurses Christmas Party

    The problem with shift work is no matter when or where you have a party, someone will be working and unable to attend. It also seems that whenever we have anytype of party at work all hell breaks out...
  15. I made a injection error... Please help me....

    Back at the begining of this thread you called yourself "stupid". YOu are not stupid, you made an error and you will learn from it and move on and never ever make this mistake again with an...
  16. Hospice verbage

    What is the difference in palliative care and comfort measures only care for hospice pts?
  17. Question regarding medical jargon

    there is also the care plan use r/o=risk
  18. why do nurse manager cheat on last paycheck when staff quit?

    This happened to me once. I complained and was mailed a check the next pay day. Problem? Taxes equaled the amount of my shift diff....I still have the check for
  19. Is this illegal?

    Check with labor board. It may be as someone else posted they will pay retroactively. I hope she kept copies of all her paper work. Never,ever turn in anything wo keeping
  20. Confusion About Morphine - Not Available?

    Recently the FDA "advisory committee" recommended stopping the manufacturing of combination drugs that have tylenol in them due to the risk of liver damage from tylenol. On the news cast that I heard...
  21. I went back to school for my RN when my hubby was on sea duty with the Navy and our kids were 4 and 5. It required I have very reliable child care. I used both private home and campus day care. I...
  22. If you could no longer work as a nurse, what would you do?

    Because I love to read and cannot imagine not being able to, I would volunteer in an adult literacy
  23. I agree that you can only report what you witness. If some one else tells you, that person needs to be encouraged to report what they saw. Please reconsider being a home care nurse! It is very hard...
  24. Do you regret becoming a Nurse?? Why?

    No, Nursing is still my passion. It's the regulatory administrative garbage we have to put up with that makes me wish I could
  25. Is Nursing school that hard??

    Check out posts on the student nurse forum for more info about