bds165

bds165

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bds165 has 4 years experience.


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  1. A day in the life of a UK nurse

    Hello everyone! I noticed that there are several nurses posting here who have worked both in the U.K. and U.S. I was curious about the differences in practice that a staff nurse would see. For example, the differences in ancillary staff. Do U.K. hos...
  2. Why are the divorce rates among nurses so high?

    You know, 100% of divorces started with marriage...
  3. Stewart/Colbert 2012!
  4. Aw man, just leave it alone! I agree with you to a degree but who cares if people pray, meditate, use introspection, or say to themselves "The Dude Abides" as long as it settles them and helps them proceed successfully throughout their day? Be it G...
  5. Package

    Hey five_marshalls, We're in the same boat (somewhat). I'm completing my package for fully qualified med/surg (active duty) and the deadline is 27 Sept for submission to the board. The "Fully Qualified" board I believe meets sometime at the end of ...
  6. Air in IV line

    If your pump cassette has a piggyback clave, after you've primed the line take a 10cc flush and squirt out the contents and attach it to the piggyback clave (keeping things sterile with swabs of course) and backprime the air out of it. If this doesn...
  7. AF Officer with break in service...

    Thanks for the info. Yep, got my BSN last year. Right now, I have 1+ years of full time Med/Surg experience. And personally, I would feel more comfortable with another solid year before looking to go into an ICU program. My recruiter seems to th...
  8. As we come to Independence Day

    Here, Here!
  9. I've gotten the ball rolling with my recruiter to join the Nurse Corps and I've got a few questions that you esteemed allnurses folks might have answers to. The recruiters, bless their hearts, don't always have the most current or accurate data. -...
  10. how to leave work at work?

    Excellent topic. I too am about 9 months into my nursing career and luckily I've had two previous stressful occupations that taught me some hard-learned lessons. I try to evaluate each shift by asking myself these questions as I head home: -Did I ...
  11. Ok...way off topic...but dude, I love your screen name. Such a great SNL skit... Sorry for the interruption...
  12. Freaking hilarious! Ruby Vee, I get the frustration, but is anyone making you visit this website? Are mouse-clicks that hard to pull off? "HELP ME" posts are never well thought out and, for the most part, obnoxious. This is a FREE public forum that...
  13. New OR nurse here

    L&M refers to a Leadership and Management course. I'm in my last semester and this course allows us to work with a nurse manager to see the ins and outs of management within a unit. I think some schools call it a Capstone course. The reason I ...
  14. New OR nurse here

    Out of curiosity, for those of you who have landed a New Grad OR job, what was your background/experience? Did you do your L & M/Summer internship in an OR? I've gotta say...I'm a little jealous! Congrats!
  15. Cop to Nurse resume questions

    Actuall post-op/ortho DOES interest me as well as OR. I loved my clinical rotations in both of those units. At this point, I'll take just about anything other than OB. Got any openings for a not-so-green new grad?