BarbPick

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  1. Does anyone know how workman's comp works?

    BarbPick posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last night on my way in to work, in the hospital it's self, I flew through the air with the greatest of ease, slipping on unflagged fresh cement. No warning, but leaving my shoe prints in a skid, and...

  2. This is sposta happen to someone else

    BarbPick posted a topic in Cardiac

    Not me. I had my first ever episode of chest pain. I was doing the "Elvis" thing, and I felt a knife stick in my chest back to my right shoulder. I gathered my wits about me and I moved very...

  3. Clep Exam

    BarbPick posted a topic in General Students

    I have been wondering why the CLEP exam has not been talked about on the BB. I took the clep exams in 1972 and earned 27 semester hours just from life expereince. I have no idea why I was awarded 3...

  4. Specialization after Graduation???

    BarbPick replied to mspringer's topic in General Nursing

    You get it cuz you lived it

  5. Specialization after Graduation???

    BarbPick replied to mspringer's topic in General Nursing

    I sincerely thank

  6. Medical patients on post-partum floor?

    BarbPick replied to tiliimnrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The american Nurses Association has created an RNc specialization of the "Nurse Generalist." This is the specialist of the future. With the nursing shortage, everyone has to adapt or not work

  7. Medical patients on post-partum floor?

    BarbPick replied to tiliimnrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is one of the best posts I have ever read. I admire your insight. Putting on my Oncology CNS hat, when I am in the hospital, they have everything but an Oncology majority on the unit. It seems...

  8. Medical patients on post-partum floor?

    BarbPick replied to tiliimnrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    No one wants to listen when an older nurse tells all to do a full year of med surg. I will sit back and see Mother / baby nurses irrigate a post op TURP, have to de gunk G tubes, give pateints go...

  9. Specialization after Graduation???

    BarbPick replied to mspringer's topic in General Nursing

    I made my comments. follow the thread. Called out by name for giving my opinion like there is just one way. I do not believe in going to a specialty without learning how to organize time, learing...

  10. Specialization after Graduation???

    BarbPick replied to mspringer's topic in General Nursing

    This is not 40 years ago, as you are comparing to a nurse in the 60's. This is recognizing when a patient becomes ill very quickly. I will not get into an arguement. It amazes me how quickly some...

  11. Coumadin and Cranberry Juice

    BarbPick replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    The more people add to this thread, the happier I am to keep my house. I have one IV reminder, Dilantin, don't forget to flush the tubing before and after with

  12. Specialization after Graduation???

    BarbPick replied to mspringer's topic in General Nursing

    I always use my Cousin Susan in all of my examples of mistakes, , well just some of them. Anyway, she went straight into Mother/Baby for 18 year, did not float much and her job was phased out. She...

  13. Travel nursing agencies

    BarbPick replied to Ebeza's topic in Travel

    I read from a travel nurse's site that Motel 6 allows you to bring

  14. Liability insurance

    BarbPick replied to KarenAR's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing Service Organization reprsents CNA insurance, same

  15. Liability insurance

    BarbPick replied to KarenAR's topic in General Nursing

    I have my life insurance with NSO. Their malpractice Insurance is the most popular and easy to keep in touch with. I have seen people squabble back and forth. No disrespect for the nurse who says...

  16. need advice RE: disclosing board monitoring

    BarbPick replied to vanburbian's topic in Nurse Management

    Keep this quiet, no one is sposta know this but in your prospective nursing unit, one out of three nurses has had to have monthly reports done on them also. See the one over, there, no don't look...

  17. Hepatitus b vaccine

    BarbPick replied to Balco's topic in International Nursing

    You start getting immunity immediately. You will be fine. On the other hand, I had my series in 1986 and was tested in 2003 and I needed to get immunized again, I had a booster shit. I showed...

  18. want to move to florida

    BarbPick replied to osprey's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I make sure I see snow every year. Usually with relatives in

  19. want to move to florida

    BarbPick replied to osprey's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I was born and raised in Miami Beach , south beach actually, and I live it here. To each their

  20. How Long Is This Supposed to Last??

    BarbPick replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Mine lasted 14 days,

  21. Thinking about becoming a psych nurse

    BarbPick replied to Carolanne's topic in Psychiatric

    I usually advise new grads to get some real sick people expereince under their belt, but if you have this attraction, go for it. They will either hire you, or

  22. want to move to florida

    BarbPick replied to osprey's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    What part of Florida did you see palm frons on the

  23. Nursing Journals

    BarbPick replied to emmy's topic in International Nursing

    There you

  24. want to move to florida

    BarbPick replied to osprey's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    opps

  25. want to move to florida

    BarbPick replied to osprey's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Pay in Florida is nothing to write home about. I am enclosing a link for the Miami Herald, Herald.com. I always see ads for