BarbPick

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  1. Report sheets

    BarbPick replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Nursing

    I will share with you how I designed mine. First, I print them on costco Neon Printing paper. No way I can put them down and they get lost. I set it up like a head to toe P. E. Review of systems...

  2. Colon therapy and enemas.

    BarbPick replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    just an update, the thread had to do with questions about high colonic enemas , and health practitioners preaching this for health and that someone found a marble he had swallowed since childhood....

  3. Colon therapy and enemas.

    BarbPick replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    Gee 28 years of nursing practice, why did I never associate this with digestion of food? Duh! try reading entire threads, like when someone said a marble from childhood came out from hocus pocus...

  4. Teacher's Pet

    BarbPick replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Students

    RN KittyCat, guess what, that is called NURSING LEADERSHIP, guess what you are one of the good guys and that is why your instructor and the students gravitate to you. See the nursing process still...

  5. I need help for a presentation!!! Please

    BarbPick replied to hampshire_nurse's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    page 135, title of the page, Brain Tumors The major difference between benign and malignant brain tumors are that benign tumors are slow growing, called menengiomas, does not invade normal brain and...

  6. Colon therapy and enemas.

    BarbPick replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    Correctol, now that you mention it, a forensic Nursing story. They took original correctol off the market, it contained a drug called phenol thaline (don't hold me to spelling here) I go to Forensics...

  7. Colon therapy and enemas.

    BarbPick replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    If you were ever a victim of the pre 1990 bowel prep, like human drano, with fleets phospho soda and SSE till clear, you would know why it is reffered to as go lightly, and now it is generic so it can...

  8. Colon therapy and enemas.

    BarbPick replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    If this is so, then why does "go lightly" work so well in a day for endoscopy? They take pictures to prove how well it works, I always thought G I Doctors had strange

  9. latest on Hepatitis A outbreak

    BarbPick replied to oramar's topic in Infectious Disease

    I had a contaminated needle stick at work(2 years later and I am fine, no conversion), but what amazed me was I was found to have a positive Hep A titer, and never remember being sick, and of all...

  10. May I ask a few questions?

    BarbPick replied to angelbear's topic in Agency Nurses

    These posts are hard acts to follow. There is a way you can try agency like nursing and that is to join a different hospital's pool. Believe it or not the secrets of the universe are everything you...

  11. Withholding Treatment Of Elderly Patients

    BarbPick replied to allegator's topic in General Nursing

    My Living will spells out my exact wishes. Hydration and Morphine, and I have chosen 2 surrigates who promise they will not allow the fighting that is going on in my Home State of Florida over the...

  12. LPN Licensure for RN'S?

    BarbPick replied to JWB's topic in General Nursing

    contact your state

  13. Passing NCLEX 2003

    BarbPick replied to netcarvajal's topic in General Nursing

    we old dinosaurs are tough. They were broken up by subjects. A half day for medical, half day of surgical, half day of Maternal Child Health and the worst of all, nursing theory, like research,...

  14. Passing NCLEX 2003

    BarbPick replied to netcarvajal's topic in General Nursing

    when I sat for Boards, you went to one of 3 possible test sites in your state and sat for two and a half days, taking 5 long comprehensive exams. If you failed, you had to wait 6 months to be able to...

  15. Exchange Transfusion Via Port-a-cath

    BarbPick replied to mianlica's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    My first certification came from the Infusion Nursing Society, I am designated "CRNI". INS can be a good source of information, the INS standards of practice is a good book to have around. Having...

  16. Teacher's Pet

    BarbPick replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Students

    There is always one, you know him or her the first day of class. The day you are told to wear street clothes to class and there they are. A uniform, usually the wrong one with white polished shoes...

  17. Finally a complaint I can relate to!

    BarbPick replied to Medic946RN's topic in Emergency

    I knew I was dying. My head hurt so badly, I could not move my head off the pillow withoput screaming. This went on for a few hours, I just knew I had a brain tumor and it was all over!!!! My...

  18. cheap books

    BarbPick replied to parklandtrauma's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    walmart on line sells text books, try used book stores near

  19. Transporting Telemetry Patients off the unit

    BarbPick replied to CV CNS CCRN's topic in Cardiac

    A monitored patient is a monitored patient. A portable monitor goes with the patient and an ACLS provider must be present. Most Radiology Nurses are ACLS providers. This question reminds me of...

  20. Text books

    BarbPick replied to Gampopa's topic in General Nursing

    As I look at my bookcase in my study, I see my pediatrics text dated 1972. Children have not changed very much since 72' but the way we care for them has. The fact that you can check them out of the...

  21. help please!!

    BarbPick replied to angelface_1009's topic in International Nursing

    I wish I could answer your question, but I have a different idea. See about taking the "Clep" exam, college level equivalency program given at a community college testing center at least once a...

  22. Crowd Control

    BarbPick replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    do you remember the white broncho chase watched by millions during the OJ chase..... calling the news got attention really

  23. Stupid med error

    BarbPick replied to Nurse4God's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is a profession, religion has nothing to do with it. People hide behind it, Kill under the name of Allah, look at the war in the middle east. All in the name of the Islamic Jihad, and the...

  24. Clinical rotation

    BarbPick replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    The reply is plain and simple. You claim to be entering a program that wiill make you a Master's prepared Nurse. If this is so, why are you afraid? What is your major malfunction? If you are not...

  25. Do you believe in a "calling" to nursing?

    BarbPick replied to alphafe's topic in General Nursing

    A Calling. In the 7th grade, I knew I felt special. I was sure I was placed on this earth for a reason. I had checked out different convent Schools, and to my mother's dismay, I would going to end...