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  1. Caught in the middle

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Marchantia's topic in Men in Nursing

    Stay out of the argument ("I like all you guys, I don't want to be anybody's enemy, I wasn't there, I don't know the facts, I know you'll all get this worked out") and focus on yourself and your...

  2. Confused!!!!!! What do I do

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to 2bnurseguy_2005's topic in Nursing Career

    Having completed a bachelors degree and holding an advanced degree demonstrates that you do have the intellectual ability. If your GPA improved in grad school, you can always suggest that you "grew...

  3. nursing Dx

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to fd2_2001's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Off the top of my head, I'd say you terminate the nurse-client relationship when the goals have been met and/or the client wants to end it. The best way I found to determine the nursing diagnosis was...

  4. to tell or not to tell?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to ablynn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    A) If the hospital is that lax, you don't want to be doing clinicals there anyway, since you will unknowingly pick up bad habits. B) Hospitals don't have confidentiality, patients do. You need to...

  5. Help I need Info

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to kittycats1002000's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that if you wanted to work in German hospitals, you'd have to speak some pretty good German, and I think you'd have to have a German nursing license. If that required a written exam,...

  6. Ummm....aren't we grown ups now? UGH.

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to onehusbandsevenkids's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Definitely don't hold your tongue! As a frequent advocate for the underdog (still quite a Girl Scout here), I've come across that sort of bad behavior a lot in my life. Likely, so has your classmate....

  7. Need Advice On The Excelsior Program

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to closatssl1's topic in Online Distance Learning

    No kidding, STOP!!!Rue is nothing more than an overpriced set of notes. You still have to apply to Excelsior, and be accepted by them, and PAY them. If money is an issue, Rue is not the answer, nor is...

  8. Need Advice On The Excelsior Program

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to closatssl1's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I work for HCA, and I just checked out that website, and it does say "endorsed by the Hospital Corporation of America."However, istudysmart is just another of many study aids. No one in the...

  9. your very own personal crusade

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

    There are ways of addressing people by their first names that is supportive, caring and appropriate--and ways of addressing people by more formal names, or sir or ma'am, that is condescending and...

  10. I freeze up when the big traumas/CPRs come in

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to vampireslayer's topic in Emergency

    One big hurdle for anyone with a soul and/or conscience, who potentially holds someone else's life in their hands is confidence.Your preceptor yelling at you and ignoring you during opportunities for...

  11. Med Error!!!!

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    No kidding! Point well

  12. Med Error!!!!

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, that is one stupid thing about the eMAR, it doesn't let you know you're outside the acceptable time until the end of the process.I've gotten so I check those little asterisks to make sure the...

  13. Groped on the job...

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Tony35NYC's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have been sexually harrassed on the job, the a*****e admitted it to his immediate superior, along with the words "I guess that wasn't a very smart thing to do," and I didn't get anywhere near the...

  14. Med Error!!!!

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    Some errors are certainly worse than others. A nurse I know mixed two incompatible meds--fortunately (for some reason, i forgot why) she never administered it. One of them had to be witnessed to be...

  15. Did I miss something? (rant and need help)

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to PMHNP10's topic in Psychiatric

    I don't think they do the traveling thing, although a couple of our nurses work weekend doubles and just stay the in-between night in a local hotel.Seriously, travel from the Houston area to the...

  16. Did I miss something? (rant and need help)

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to PMHNP10's topic in Psychiatric

    Better question: Are they ticked at you?You did exactly the right thing. If the 5 mg Zydis didn't work, or he continued to escalate and you weren't there for that, how can you be held responsible?...

  17. ICE-- your cellphone

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to rjflyn's topic in General Nursing

    I wondered about that when I put in the entry "home," figuring that if they are looking for my NOK (next of kin?), "home" would be where they'd find him. Or at least his voice

  18. man holding wife still during epidural dies!

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to smk1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think in the end it will come down to "proximal cause." What was the actual "cause" of the injury, the complied-with request to hold his wife? Or his own inability to manage himself and say when...

  19. What's the funniest thing you've heard a patient say?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in Nursing Humor

    This wasn't a patient, but one of our better psychiatrists. She is from India, speaks perfect English and clearly has been listening to too many of our west Texans. We were talking about pets. I...

  20. Patients knowing medical lingo

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    This may certainly be because you are a new nurse, but I hope you hang onto this.As nurses, a lot of what we do is assess (where is the patient?) and teach (for which, you'd better have an answer to...

  21. Patients knowing medical lingo

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    I neither like nor dislike it. If a patient knows something about their illness or knows terminology (notice I didn't just say "uses" it), then so much the better--I find where they are in their...

  22. Need Advice On The Excelsior Program

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to closatssl1's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Not necessarily. I know you have to have completed more than 50% of the clinical part successfully. It would depend on what you were "kicked out" for.I found their review of records to be...

  23. I rescheduled

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I defer to the experienced one here....The only thing with which I would take issue is, I don't think you will get $16/hr in Dallas. I have worked at two of the best paying hospitals in Dallas. One...

  24. I rescheduled

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'd think you could work as a graduate nurse--but that might depend on having graduated from a US school.Where are you in Texas? If near the Dallas area, email me privately--there might be a place...

  25. TIPS/Info for passing NCLEX

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to paula77720's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Not silly at all. It is the best advice one can give (or take).Jamming facts into our heads just before an exam may ensure a higher grade, but it doesn't demonstrate long term, usable knowledge....