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  1. Patients and cell phone cameras

    ECKPowers replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    It's really no different than an x-ray, ultrasound, MRI, or CT. Scan. It's their body. It's just an area where a picture might not usually be taken. As a patient I've taken pictures of some pretty...

  2. Pubic hair

    ECKPowers replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

    LOL By all means! I just said it one day and it

  3. Vent: Embarrassed during change of shift.

    ECKPowers replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    That's assault. Unwarranted and unwelcome touching in a threatening manner is assault. I wouldn't talk to her. I'd speak to charge nurse, house supervisor, administration and law enforcement. Most...

  4. A Patient Made Me Cry Today

    ECKPowers replied to flightnurse2b's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Your compassion drove you to document this mans pain and suffering. Perhaps not only did you help him but I'm sure whoever did this has done it before. Now social services and law enforcement will be...

  5. Pubic hair

    ECKPowers replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

    Thats just shag nasty. Tell that woman to send her mom to Walgreens for some wax! Nurses have better things to do.And it's still shag

  6. Scheduling C-Sections for Convenience Nurses Thoughts?

    ECKPowers posted a topic in General Nursing

    In the past few months I've heard of Ob's actually scheduling C-sections for convenience. A friend of mine recently went to a local OB when she found out she was pregnant. At the first appointment...

  7. Scheduling C-Sections for Convenience Nurses Thoughts?

    ECKPowers replied to ECKPowers's topic in General Nursing

    It just seems to me that natural birth would be best for Mommy and baby. I would also think that if a mother had to have pain relief (medicine) for post C-section pain, then her milk would be...

  8. Dangerous nurses

    ECKPowers replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Again, my only experience is as a patient. So I offer my two cents worth with my own grain of salt. LOL In laymans terms, medicine is a constantly evoloving entity. Practices that were acceptable and...

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    ECKPowers replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I suppose this counts under this section. I had to get my port flushed yesterday. I went to the oncology clinic (as usual) and I heard another patient growling yelling at the nurse. Of course, being...

  10. Working as a stripper AND a nurse

    ECKPowers replied to inland18mempire's topic in General Nursing

    It's not illegal. And it's NONE of our business what she does. She asked about legality. Not everyone's personal moral

  11. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Now that annoy's me. We are talking about understanding of foreign accents. Not race or ability. Sheesh. Why do people always play the race card? It's NOT about race. It's about whether I as the...

  12. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    *Eye

  13. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have many MD's that are foreign born. If I don't understand them I ask them to please ask someone else to come and see if they can understand it and relay it to me. It's NOT a big deal. But everyone...

  14. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. You all are right. It's not a prejudice at all. If I were to go to Wal Mart and I couldn't get help from the beauty section, because she ONLY spoke Spanish. I would be forced to seek out...

  15. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Not a nurse, but I said

  16. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    My ONLY issue as a patient is this: if I can't understand you I will nicely ask to speak to someone else. It's not personal. It's MY health. MY

  17. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Hiondfa Ligfoasdfkasd fkadl godaoqweruc dnasdirll gjuiasdovnm aleirakdn! That's what I hear when a heavily accented person tries to speak Engilsh and fails miserably. I need to understand my...

  18. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Cause they don't want to slap a co-worker when they can't understand

  19. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    W:OW! And we are back to you putting words in my mouth. I said patients should be able to understand and trust their nurse. When the nurse is unable to communicate well with his/her patients they...

  20. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't saying or implying you were. Something you wrote reminded me of something else. Sheesh! When I call my husband Egghead it sometimes reminds me to pick up eggs at Wal Mart.

  21. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    "Just a patient"? Subconscienc slipping of the tongue? I may be " just a patient ", but us " patients " keep nurses in jobs. ********** My own spelling at 3 am is horrific ************** Subconscious...

  22. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    ^^ That reminded me of another aspect of foreign born nurses that I hadn't mentioned. The incorrect grammar issue. Not only is it difficult to understand the accents, the horrific and incorrect...

  23. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps it's just best to put it simply and plainly. I, as the patient, want a nurse I can understand and that knows what he/she is doing. Before a foreign born nurse starts a job here, they should be...

  24. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    ECKPowers replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Patients have the right and the need to understand what the nurse is telling them. It's sometimes a life and death issue. A good nurse is a good nurse. It doesn't matter where he/she came from. A...

  25. Dangerous nurses

    ECKPowers replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The only type of nurses that I fear are the ones that are too lazy and unmotivated to learn the correct way to do things.Or are too lazy to do their job. At seven months pregnant I was in a car...