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    Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    smk1 replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient as a student nurse on an OB rotation (still a student by the way!), anyhow, she had just had her first baby and you would have thought that no one in the history of the universe had...
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    smk1 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly how I feel the MA role should be
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    smk1 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Tweety, everyone has a place, but people with the proper educational background should be performing higher level tasks. The medical assistant at my doc's office called and tried to...
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    Insensitive Nurses

    smk1 replied to tatarn2b2007's topic in General Nursing

    I'm doing my last clinical rotation mentorship in a Critical care unit and the first day that I was there a patient was taken off of support and died with many family members all around. It was a...
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    The field of Nursing is wicked to CENAs..the ugly side no one talks about

    smk1 replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    ok I was keeping an open mind until this post came up. WHY, WHY, WHY do you want to work with people who gloat over someone's mother dying simply because "they had it coming"? Peopl who were plotting...
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    Diluting all IV push medication??

    smk1 replied to srewer's topic in General Nursing

    THis is exactlly my thought process. Do what the drug guide says. If you don't "have" to dilute, but it is ok to do so, then probabl go ahead and do so. Keeps the veins
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    NO Pain medicines for my Mom!

    smk1 replied to Hospice RNCM's topic in General Nursing

    That is just sick and
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    I am so flippen mad!!!!!!!!

    smk1 replied to student-with-no-life's topic in General Nursing

    Not your business, you really have no idea what "cards" anyone is playing and none of this changes your status. I guess take heart that if you had an issue you probably would be treated just as...
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    NO Pain medicines for my Mom!

    smk1 replied to Hospice RNCM's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand why he has a say in it at all. Surely he isn't HER doctor. Why can't you call her doctor and get and order for what is needed? Do families really control prescriptive authority in...
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    NGT Insertion. STERILE or CLEAN technique?

    smk1 replied to Melandru's topic in General Students

    Clean, because the GI tract is not sterile, however there is a risk of introducing it into the lungs which are supposed to be a sterile environment so making it a "sterile" procedure is not a horrible...
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    Anything good about working in Texas?

    smk1 replied to MBsGirl's topic in Texas Nursing

    wonder how fast he and miss simpson will be "taking a break". i don't watch a lot of football, but my brother was spitting
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    Anything good about working in Texas?

    smk1 replied to MBsGirl's topic in Texas Nursing

    It was a simple question that directly relates to working conditions in Texas. I personally like Texas and have an interest in moving there someday so no need to get defensive. I'm not trying to...
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    Can a Sticker on my car = Hippa Violation?

    smk1 replied to AtlantaRN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    It may be indiscreet, but then again if you have a stethescope around your neck that identifies you as well. Where is the line drawn? It is an interesting question. Personally, I feel that anyone...
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    Do most schools have talking mannequins?

    smk1 replied to TeleNurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    we have sim man and sim baby. We also have some others that are really cool. You can deliver a baby, run IV fluids, actually use the AED to shock during your mock codes
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    Anything good about working in Texas?

    smk1 replied to MBsGirl's topic in Texas Nursing

    How many of you have had a problem with group one? Is it really as big of an issue as some claim? what can a new grad expect in the Dallas/ft. worth area? How about
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    Ever pull the wrong med from the right cubie in the Pyxis?

    smk1 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I have also seen empty morphine carpuject vials so make sure you guys are actually checking that fluid is in those
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    St Kitts Nursing School???/ Confused

    smk1 replied to jbri's topic in General Nursing

    I just got back from a cruise where one of the stops was on the lovely island of St. Kitts and we passed the medical school ,veterinary school and the nursing school. Beautiful island and campus and...
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    Do you remove occluded or infiltrated IV right away or wait until new start done?

    smk1 replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    If it is infiltrated you can't push anything through it anyway (or shouldn't even if you could actually "force" something in). Take it out and get a new
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    punishment advice.....please......

    smk1 replied to Seamless LVN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I, as a student, have noticed gross differences between what the true resp rate is and what is documented in the chart. (saw one lady hyperventilating from across the room at over 40 breaths per...
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    Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

    smk1 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

    Also please assume that we can read, because I really don't want to drag myself out of bed at 6 in the morning, fight traffic and try to find a parking space on campus only to sit in a hot lecture...
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    Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

    smk1 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

    Please do not grab things out of my hand unless I am about to hurt someone. If you have a better wqay of doing a procedure that is easier please tell me after I have finished the one I have started...
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    a nurse's medicine cabinet

    smk1 replied to NurseNature's topic in General Nursing

    not a nurse yet but I keep Benadryl, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, claritin and children's versions of all of these. I also like to have theraflu on hand. (When I am really sick this stuff knocks me...
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    Aspirate Always?

    smk1 replied to Emma123's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. I'm still in nursing school and we are taught to aspirate IM injections, however we are also taught that research shows it may not really be necessary on many IM's however it is an extra...
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    Gay nurses?

    smk1 replied to aedis_aegypti's topic in Men in Nursing

    I was going to post this and then it occurred to me that I engage in chit chat such as "my daughter likes that show too!" or general chitchat such as "my husband and I want to travel to _____, how did...
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    Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    smk1 replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    There are definitely some posts with constructive criticisms, but there are a lot that are just negative. Basically you can't do it, if you can do it then your patients will be harmed, you are only...