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  1. 20+ year old felony drug convition RN job advice

    belgarion replied to soontograd's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    If your record has been clean for that long and you can get people to vouch for what a good citizen you have been, you might try applying to the state board of pardons and parole and see if you can...

  2. Health Care Bill

    belgarion replied to VerbalGrl715's topic in General Nursing

    It's pretty common practice for the party in power to bame the previous p.i.p. for everything from the economy to outbreaks of toenail fungus. Carter blamed Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr. blamed Carter,...

  3. Safe Harbor

    belgarion replied to mstere's topic in General Nursing

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that Safe Harbor can also be invoked if a nurse feels that an assignment will place the nurse in jeopardy. An example would be an assignment to deal with a violent...

  4. Health Care Bill

    belgarion replied to VerbalGrl715's topic in General Nursing

    Who knows? Some parts of it won't kick in until 2020. It will probably be tweaked, twisted, and ammended a few dozen times over the next few years to the point where it will bear no resemblence to...

  5. Will the real Dr. House plz stand up!

    belgarion replied to Mr. Evans's topic in General Nursing

    How many docs would you allow to actually sit at the controls of an expensive piece of equip,emt like an MRI? As far as a real life House, we had a twenty-something in the ER once who was injured when...

  6. nurses and spelling

    belgarion replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

    I think a lot of the spelling and grammar mistakes we see are due to a lack of practice. We use so much shorthand and abbreviation in our work that it's no wonder so many have problems with "regular"...

  7. Walking rounds and HIPPA

    belgarion replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    This is an area that has driven me nuts with regard to HIPAA. In a semi-private room the patient in the next bed AND their visitors get to hear every intimate detail of your case. Doctors tend to...

  8. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    belgarion replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Several months ago the doctor prescribed IM injections of B12 for my wife and the nurse was going to set up home health to come by and give them. When I told her that I could give the shots and save...

  9. I have a hunch about a patient and I cannot prove it!

    belgarion replied to WoofyMutt80's topic in General Nursing

    I second this. Growing up in the boondocks and living there now I have seen and smelled plenty of meth cooking going on. Not to mention a couple of large scale pot growing operations some...

  10. My vent and What I will learn from it?

    belgarion replied to SmilesNoir's topic in General Nursing

    I did a reply once regarding an RN during my clinicals who gave an injection using the blunt she had drawn up the medication with. Some people can give shots, some can't, so the MA drawing blood...

  11. When everybody knows your name

    belgarion replied to 313RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think a lot of this depends on where you are. In the small town hospital I work in most of my patients get highly offended when I call them Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. I try to address people by their...

  12. good markets for new grads

    belgarion replied to hbgwan's topic in General Nursing

    In Texas there are nearly 600 hospitals. They range in size from small town facilities with maybe 25 beds to places like Baylor in Dallas or MD Anderson in Houston that are actually small cities by...

  13. patient dies from combination of drugs that doc prescribed. who is responsible?

    belgarion replied to premedwoahs's topic in General Nursing

    One of my old instructors put it very plainly - One of the duties of a nurse is to keep doctors from killing

  14. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    belgarion replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Having a wife with more chronic problems than Carter has pills I have to say it depends on what is going on. For the most part, if she is in the hospital and getting good care I prefer to kick back in...

  15. Scary story I heard from some nursing students

    belgarion replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

  16. Scary story I heard from some nursing students

    belgarion replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Student flunked, failed, out, expelled, shot, hung, drawn and quartered. My question is, how could an instructor not know that a student's clinical skills were that weak? It sounds like there was a...

  17. Fired!!

    belgarion replied to cjveronica's topic in General Nursing

  18. Balancing Nursing School and a Boyfriend

    belgarion replied to averie123's topic in General Nursing

    You know, having this issue surface now may be a blessing in disguise. If this is his attitude during your FIRST semester, how will he be once you are actually a nurse? How will he like you working...

  19. Do you like being a LPN?

    belgarion replied to sillysallie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm an LVN in a small, rural hospital and I enjoy it. I am currently checking out the different paths to becoming an RN but that's because I am never really satisfied to sit still. The job market...

  20. Is full-time as an LPN usually 36 or 40 hours a week?

    belgarion replied to helikias's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Our pay periods are two weeks, 3 twelves one week and 4 the next (3-2-2 shift). I usually wind up staying a few minutes extra, especially if we had a last minute admission. Like others have said, it...

  21. M.R.S.A or mersa?

    belgarion replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Mersa

  22. sex in the work place...really?

    belgarion replied to Mr. Evans's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At another LTC where my wife worked the standing joke was that the administrator's desk was always so clean because the ADON was regularly polishing it with her

  23. sex in the work place...really?

    belgarion replied to Mr. Evans's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I worked in manufacturing there were a number of incidents where a couple (not always heterosexual BTW) were caught in the act and excorted out the door. I was assigned to five different...

  24. Vent: Recognition from employer

    belgarion replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    Spending years in a large corporation you see these kind of programs come and go. At one plant where I was working some bright boy decided housekeeping needed more attention, hence another program...

  25. I can't be the only one who has done this

    belgarion replied to squirtle's topic in General Nursing

    When I start to wonder what I was smoking when I decided to become a nurse I think back more years than I like to the two summers I spent with a wheat harvest crew or the uplifting period I spent...