That Guy BSN, RN, EMT-B

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    What I learned in clincals

    If you find yourself bored, ask if there is someone, anyone you can help with
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    Forensic Nursing (FN)

    And people laughed at me when I said the most stable pts are the dead ones so forensic nursing would be for them. I think it sounds very
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    What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

    Working. Traded someone with a family. The soon to be wife works so no point in staying home by
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    I think there was another thread where we were discussing this. While sad, it isnt the hospitals
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    Night shifters-when do you eat?

    Eat at 1700 at home, 0200/0300 at work and maybe a light breakfast when I get home. Thats what works for
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    ACLS/BLS cards are so flimsy...?

    It sits in my office drawer along with all my other certs and
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    Drug Seeker Stories

    I say Doradol. "YEAH THATS THE ONE! It works great". Ok thats where you chart that the pt is full of
  8. While sad, it isnt the hospitals fault she
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    You can't fix stupid!

    At least you dont have to get surveys from the
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    Nurses that don't work holidays?

    I do love it. Plus with the wife working the opposite holidays as me, I volunteer to work them all so I am not just at home alone. Its not a bad thing, I dont mind it at all. But thats why we are
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    Nurses that don't work holidays?

    Or you make friends with people like me that dont care about holidays and offer to work them for people like
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    My instructor said...

    "Its easier to make a hole than a pole" In reference to gender reassignment
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    Impossible standards

    Qhour for most pts per our facility. Its easy though for us. Set spacelabs to q15 checks and then import at your
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    PLEASE HELP Before they kick me out!

    Wait let me get this straight.... You are mad that you knowingly broke the rules and are being punished for it? Thats like people being mad that they got a speeding ticket when they know they speed...
  15. I have a bag for when we are camping/traveling from my SAR days but thats it. No nursing bag. All my stuff stays at
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    You know you're a nurse when...

    Or the hot girl at the gym probably has a dirty
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    You want us to do what?!?

    Now that sounds like an idea I could get
  18. Start IVs but not fluids once trained in Wyoming
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    Phasing out noc shift differential in acute care?

    Honestly it would be a driving force for me to go to day shift. I love the extra money I get working nights. I could care less about the weekend diff bu the night one is pretty decent for what I have...
  20. Good job newbie! That sounds like a good first day to me. I notice this a lot with the new people to the ER. They want to function like the seasoned ER folk, and you wont for awhile. Its the truth,...
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    Pros and Cons of Computerized Charting

    The problem is, you have to work with it for awhile to see what the bad areas are. We went to EPIC recently and it was sold to us as the next best thing. We all hate it and have been working to make...
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    Do Mean Girls make Mean Nurses

    Want to take any more leaps there Evil
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    5 Tips in How To Adapt to Night Shift

    Im in the same boat. I get better sleep with her on that schedule. I sleep while she is at work and vice versa.I also work stretches so she knows that first day is dedicated to flipping my schedule...
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    5 Tips in How To Adapt to Night Shift

    Insulated black out curtains. Best invention
  25. Bullets are cheaper and manufactured right here in good old 'merica. Either way its more political puffing and it gets old fast. Why dont they have a **** fit about using