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  1. No nursing jobs in 2012 ???

    belgarion replied to rawoysteraddict's topic in General Nursing

    In the seventies, Richard Nixon, a Republican president if I'm not mistaken, proposed a health care bill very similar to the ones being kicked about the halls of Congress at this very moment. It was...

  2. No nursing jobs in 2012 ???

    belgarion replied to rawoysteraddict's topic in General Nursing

    And of course MSNBC, CNN, CBS, et al offer up only completely unbiased, factual, impartial, impersonal, and totally accurate stories with no thought to any agenda other than the good of the public?...

  3. Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    belgarion replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Anyone ever stop at the store or Burger King on the way to work? You could be standing in the middle of a whole crowd of folks who are carrying the H1N1 strain. What about the people you get onto...

  4. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    belgarion replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    The English are known for this kind of truncation. To wit, Worcestershire becomes Wistasheer and Cholmondoley becomes Chumley. Don't forget "lefttenant" for

  5. LPN student seeking advice/encouragement.

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

  6. Having a Hard Time

    belgarion replied to SDA3694's topic in General Nursing

    It seems to me that some preceptors feel that making life as difficult as possible for a new nurse is an acceptable way to "toughen them up". In just about any other field, with the possible...

  7. Medical Dosage Calculations - In Your Head or Calculator?

    belgarion replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Just because I come up with 100 mL as an answer doesn't mean I should go ahead and give it if I know that 10 mL makes more sense. I still have to know what's safe, the calculator is just a tool. This...

  8. Should the H1N1 Vaccine be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals?

    belgarion replied to Brian's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My employer has still not mandated the vaccine as yet. I will probably take it when they finally get it in but being a small facility in a small town we may not see it until the season is over. The...

  9. Should I go to work tomorrow

    belgarion replied to bunnie004's topic in General Nursing

    The idea of going to your facility's ER is great. Let them make the decision and you are covered. If you get fired for calling in with those symptoms in the middle of an epidemic I really don't...

  10. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    belgarion replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    You always want to take regional accents and dialects into account. The Kennedy brothers used to pronounce Alaska as "Alasker". If you have ever known anyone from Cajun country you know that they...

  11. never took chemistry or algebra in high school

    belgarion replied to scrubbie's topic in General Nursing

    I minored in math my first time in college and I still occasionally tutor the kids of friends or my daughters friends so I guess I am qualified to say that your best bet for algebra at leastis a...

  12. Can you become a nurse without making the effort?

    belgarion replied to sasha2lady's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I had a few classmates who put forth no effort in class and still aced everything. They then managed to "hide out" during clinicals by staying out of the instructor's way and doing the bare minimum...

  13. LPN student seeking advice/encouragement.

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

    School drags you down. Everyone has those same feelings at some point before they graduate. Every semester I was saying " just a little while longer" and counting the days till I got a break. And...

  14. Medical Dosage Calculations - In Your Head or Calculator?

    belgarion replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Having a heavy math background I always just looked at the problem on a test and wrote down the answer and never missed a calc problem on a test. I still do them that way at work but I do have enough...

  15. Is Tramadol part of your Narc count?

    belgarion replied to Alibaba's topic in General Nursing

    It's locked up and counted at each shift change where I am. I think I've given it maybe 3 times in the last

  16. What should I expect in nursing school

    belgarion replied to hathead91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I already had an engineering degree which is very heavy in math and physics before I turned to nursing so I didn't find the subject matter as hard as I did the way it is presented. The way questions...

  17. Houston we have a problem!

    belgarion replied to buddaluv08's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    There are at least two LTC facilities around here that allow the nurses to take a couple of Tylenol or Tums for personal use if they sign for them. They can also provide the same for CNAs or others...

  18. Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    belgarion replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    Some years back, my wife and a coworker reported to the LTC facility where they worked for the evening shift. The asked the offgoing nurse how one particularly noisy patient had been doing that day....

  19. Caring for amputees...post op and in general

    belgarion replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing

    The patient's attitude is everything. As a student, I was assigned to a patient who was scheduled for a BKA that afternoon. He was already setting up an appointment to be fitted for his "pegleg" and...

  20. ALL NURSES this affects all of you

    belgarion replied to AnalegnaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I thought I read somewhere that someone had started legal action to stop this. Is there any action on that

  21. Schools without waiting list for 2year RN program???

    belgarion replied to MrsCurious1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You might check out some of the programs in and around medium to smaller size cities in Texas. Abilene, Wichita Falls, Lubbock, Amarillo, Sherman/Denison, Midland/Odessa, Tyler, etc. might be good...

  22. LPN....I'm still a nurse, right??

    belgarion replied to kkluczynski's topic in General Nursing

    You say the guy has a PhD. We used to call his behavior PhD syndrome. For some reason, when some people earn the right to put those three letters after their name they also think they have earned...

  23. I'm guilty. It's about the condom catheter

    belgarion replied to tatara's topic in General Nursing

    As a guy my first reaction is "OUCH". (just kidding) The guy knew exactly what he was doing. Don't make excuses for inexcusable behavior and stop losing sleep over it. Personally, I can't think of...

  24. Nurse stereotypes

    belgarion replied to Inspired By Silence's topic in General Nursing

    It is very easy to be judgemental, pious, and omnipotent when you are young and are practicing at "Utopia Memorial". I tell you what. Come back in a few years and tell everyone that you have never...

  25. When to draw the line on religious and cultural accomodation?

    belgarion replied to Inspired By Silence's topic in General Nursing

    But should I come across a woman who grew up in the pre civil rights era who does not want to be treated by a Mexican American male nurse, how do I respond? The knee-jerk "official, facility approved"...