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  1. Guys, do you wear your wedding band to work?

    belgarion replied to JaredCNA's topic in Men in Nursing

    I got out of the habit of wearing mine at work years ago. When I was working in the field on a project it was just too dangerous. I knew of three incidents in our company where a worker lost their...

  2. Tylenol overdose and the public's ignorance.

    belgarion replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    My wife has chronic pain from a number of causes. She used to take Lortabs (5/500mg). I got her doctor to change her over to Norco (10/325mg). Her pain is actually under better control now and she...

  3. sending an online thank you after interview

    belgarion replied to MorningLight's topic in General Nursing

    Another thing to consider is that if you send a thank you by snail mail, it will take a couple or three days to get there. That makes the interviewer stop for a second and actually think about you....

  4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    belgarion replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you. I don't smoke so it's very rare that I ever leave the floor. Seem like every time one of my coworkers goes to smoke, every one of their patients has a sudden urge to go potty. It's...

  5. Are YOU terrified to be a patient (and your loved ones, too!)

    belgarion replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Last year alone I made 8 complaints regarding my wife's care at the hospital she was in on 7 occasions. These were not about cold coffee, waiting too long for a blanket, or anything customer service...

  6. plus size scrubs.

    belgarion replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Aviators. They're pricey but you can order them to YOUR

  7. I need HELP on how to prepare/study for CLEP Intro to Sociology exam.

    belgarion replied to Di0sAbELLA's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The CLEP book from Amazon is probably the REA book. The nice thing about it is that it condenses everything down to about 80 pages. There are three practice tests in the book and you can get a CD...

  8. Administration okays family's mental abuse of staff

    belgarion replied to FoolsErrand's topic in General Nursing

    If you really read the post instead of just reacting to it, she does NOT say nurses ARE indentured servants. What she actually says is that nurses are TREATED LIKE indentured servants. Big difference...

  9. What are the top 5 medications YOU administer daily?

    belgarion replied to northmississippi's topic in Patient Medications

    Eighty percent of our patients are swingbeds. Docusate, zocor, coumadin, zantac, lortab (all strengths). Also albuterol and atrovent nebs. We don't have RTs on

  10. Can an LPN/LVN discontinue an IV?

    belgarion replied to Miss_3Bb's topic in General Nursing

    In Texas we do it all the time. Of course our scope of practice basically states our scope of practice is what the facility says it

  11. Tips for working night shift as a new lpn.

    belgarion replied to jmitchell-85's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Depends. If I have to go back to work that night I try for at least 6 or 7. If I'm off that night it could be anywhere from 2 to 10 depending on how many things I have to catch up

  12. Tips for working night shift as a new lpn.

    belgarion replied to jmitchell-85's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I work 7P-7A for family reasons as well. My advice is you have to develop a little bit of a selfish streak. Your sleep time is your sleep time. Yes, there will be exceptions to the rule but for the...

  13. Is this out of my scope?

    belgarion replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    True. Leave the nurse part out of it and you could be a food service person. They have to know proper hand washing tecniques as

  14. Is this out of my scope?

    belgarion replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I don't see a thing wrong with it. It's not like you would be doing patient education on changing a wound dressing or teaching a nursing class about central line care. The problem is there...

  15. Fired By Patient Family

    belgarion replied to SolaireSolstice's topic in General Nursing

    Got "fired" a while back. Had a pt. in the end stages of COPD, his wife was staying with him 24/7. The orders called or the HOB to be kept at no lower than 30 deg and preferred 45. As soon as a...

  16. Has anyone really broke down the numbers?

    belgarion replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to go with numbers what about the little rural or even suburban county owned facilities? I'm talking the ones with less than a hundred or sometimes less that fifty beds. I really doubt...

  17. No handwashing equals fines?

    belgarion replied to sara42105's topic in General Nursing

    If they serve stone crab claws and Taylor Swift provides the entertainment at the next Christmas party you'll have your

  18. Caring for the Chart or the Patient?

    belgarion replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    We have a doc who show up right at shift change every morning, grabs all his patients' charts, and keeps them until he has gone through every single one. All this time we are trying to get our chart...

  19. Oh no they didn't...uniform changes in florida

    belgarion replied to pearljammer's topic in General Nursing

    When my daughter worked at a McDonalds while she was in college her uniforms were furnished. My old employer required us to wear company logo shirts when in the field but they furnished them. There...

  20. No handwashing equals fines?

    belgarion replied to sara42105's topic in General Nursing

    How will they know? Cameras aimed at the sinks in every patient's room? That would open up the privacy worm can. How about patient's or family members reporting staff not doing proper hand washing?...

  21. What are OSHA's restrictions on shift length for Nurses?

    belgarion replied to icb1977's topic in General Nursing

    OSHA is pretty much a paper tiger. It takes a whole lot to get them up and moving and their fine structure is a joke. Most states have laws regarding how many hours nurses can work at a time,...

  22. Oh no they didn't...uniform changes in florida

    belgarion replied to pearljammer's topic in General Nursing

    I like the color coding, wish we did it but we're so small everyone knows everyone else so it really doesn't matter. Forcing everyone to buy the exact same style from the same vendor and using the...

  23. Willing to come to snow new grads there are jobs here.

    belgarion replied to mentalhealthRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is funny because because at this moment I have about a foot of snow on top of about two inches of ice covering my driveway. My "driveway" is nearly a half mile long. In the morning I'm going to...

  24. To get the flu shot, or not to get the flu shot...

    belgarion replied to jordansnapp's topic in General Nursing

    According to the CDC, the vaccine is 70 to 90% effective at preventing the flu in healthy adults under age 65. This depends on how well their crystal ball was working when they made their guess as to...

  25. heartless DON or reality check?

    belgarion replied to sarafina's topic in General Nursing

    Some years ago when my wife worked in LTC their best aide called in one day and said the doctors had told her to gather the family because her mother wouldn't last the day. The administrator threw a...