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  1. Stumped RE nicotine & caffeine

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! Felt like my brain just wasn't working

  2. Stumped RE nicotine & caffeine

    TennNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    We recently discharged a pt with chillbains (sp?) and the discharge orders stated to avoid nicotine and caffeine for the next several days. Anybody know the rationale behind this? Best I can...

  3. Team Interview

    TennNurse replied to JNT'smom's topic in General Nursing

    The Floor From Hell that I just left did team interviews, and in my case the above concerns about management definitely applied. Having said that, however, I think I've come to like the concept of...

  4. I quit my job (long)

    TennNurse replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Boy, Extra Crispy, do I ever feel for you. I handed in my resignation about 2 weeks ago (did NOT know about the pay for 2 weeks notice thing- can you push for that after you've left??) from a...

  5. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

    TennNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am in dire need of some perspective here, y'all. This may get wordy, so I apologize in advance. Please bear with me. Three months ago I interviewed for a wonderful-sounding job. The staff was...

  6. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thought y'all would like to know that I finally had enough and handed in my resignation this morning. Whoever described this as a nest of spiders clearly has spent at least 5 minutes on this floor!...

  7. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thought y'all would like to know that I finally had enough and handed in my resignation this morning. Whoever described this as a nest of spiders clearly has spent at least 5 minutes on this floor!...

  8. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    The encouragement I've gotten from this board has been nothing short of phenomenal, and when I combine your input with a truly petty incident today, I want to let you all know that I am currently...

  9. What do you HATE to do at work?

    TennNurse replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

    Amen, Amen, and Amen some more. Will you PLEASE come to my hospital and give a conference on this????? Include a quiz and a new zero-tolerance policy, if you would, please. :angryfire :angryfire...

  10. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Again, thanks to all of you. I knew I wasn't happy here anymore, but seeing all of your responses has really brought it home how terrible this place is. The hospital as a whole has had a reputation...

  11. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, if we had the sense of support and community on my floor that exists on this board!! Thank all of you so much for your timely responses. It's amazing to me how we don't realize how awful our...

  12. I think I got fired

    TennNurse replied to sherichance's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you are in our prayers, and there is nothing odd about asking for them when you need them! As awful as divorce is, a miserable marriage is worse, and when you also have a child to consider,...

  13. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners

    TennNurse replied to L&D.RN's topic in Forensic

    This is an area of nursing in which I've had a strong interest for some time. I live in a small town between Memphis and Nashville that does not have SANE. What would be the best way to find a...

  14. Personnal lives or reckless?

    TennNurse replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

    I don't ride as much as I used to (my boys are dangerously close to becoming pasture ornaments) but I raised my 4-year-old from a 5-month-old weanling who was rescued from a meat packing plant. He...

  15. Nursing School Bloopers

    TennNurse replied to Jabber964's topic in Nursing Humor

    If it makes you feel better, when I first got out of school I worked for an OB-GYN, and an OB pt called to ask if she could use her vibrator (she had been in that day for lady partsl bleeding). I...

  16. What not to say / do while you are in the ER...

    TennNurse replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    For some reason one that sticks out in my memory is the old guy brought in by EMS for chest pain (vitals, EKG, enzymes all normal, satting 98) screaming "NURSE! NURSE!" I looked in on him to see...

  17. Things I have learned by being a nurse

    TennNurse replied to unknown99's topic in General Nursing

    The more unloving a patient acts, the more he needs to be loved. This so reminds me of a pt I had today in the ER. Kinda makes me wish I'd read this before work.

  18. Things I have learned by being a nurse

    TennNurse replied to unknown99's topic in General Nursing

    The more unloving a patient acts, the more he needs to be loved. This so reminds me of a pt I had today in the ER. Kinda makes me wish I'd read this before work.

  19. Happy, Happy Day!!

    TennNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    on june 8, 1997, i unknowingly pledged my life to a monster of mind-boggling proportions, cleverly disguised as a nice guy who adored me. for the next 6 years, he lied, cheated, stole, and concealed...

  20. Happy, Happy Day!!

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Many, many thanks to all of y'all! When I was in high school I wanted to be a writer. However, I am now of the opinion that that's not allowed until you have been married and really learn how to...

  21. Happy, Happy Day!!

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! Believe me, I never thought I could be this elated over getting divorced, but I am tickled pink. I also never thought it could be possible to live with someone for 6 years and never know...

  22. Has Anyone Read the Echo Heron Books?

    TennNurse replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    This is not silly! When you go meet her, let me know and I'll come,

  23. Has Anyone Read the Echo Heron Books?

    TennNurse replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    Her first two books were awesome. I discovered her while I was still in nursing school, and her descriptions of therapeutic communication just made me howl! I also loved her recounting of her first...

  24. Red Neck Love Poem

    TennNurse replied to klhs's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh, my God, that is just awful! I must send this on! :roll :roll :roll :roll

  25. I have been impersonated to obtain narcotics

    TennNurse replied to darla80's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    In one office I worked in, I overheard one MA calling in Phenergan w/ codeine for another MA. The MD who supposedly prescribed it wasn't even there that day. It is truly amazing what anyone anywhere...