Aoretta

Aoretta has 2 years experience and specializes in cardiac/heart failure.

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1. I fainted today in the ICU!

   Aoretta replied to aismail3's topic in General Students

   Oh my friend, it happens. It happens. I saw a wound one time...it wasn't the sight that bothered me so much as the smell. It was only my second semester of nursing. He smelled like a moldy side of...

2. Factory worker one day ... nurse the next?

   Aoretta replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

   So what will it be in the '10's

3. Factory worker one day ... nurse the next?

   Aoretta replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

   Forgive me - I did not mean to imply that ALL nurses who were not factory workers would say this, think this, or roll their eyes. I meant that those who worked in the factories would empathize with...

4. Factory worker one day ... nurse the next?

   Aoretta replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

   As an addendum: I will always be a registered nurse, but the legacy of being a blue collar worker with ink and paper cuts all over my hands, that will be part of my soul forever. The day Brown...

5. Factory worker one day ... nurse the next?

   Aoretta replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

   Charlie T., I loved your post. I totally identify with you.

6. Factory worker one day ... nurse the next?

   Aoretta replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

   I worked at Brown Printing in East Greenville, PA; making magazines such as Time, SI, Entertainment weekly, Family Circle. I worked there right out of high school. I loved my job there. To this day...

7. Speaking of facebook...inappropriate...but am I within my rights...?

   Aoretta replied to laurasc's topic in General Nursing

   According to the Nurse practice Act of the state of Pennsylvania: In the acute care setting, the nurse-patient relationship ends at discharge. In the psychiatric settting (any setting psychiatric, I...