Merlyn

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  1. Feeling like a Complete Failure

    Merlyn replied to LivingTestimony's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    MAZEL TOV

  2. Do you find that you get more support from other nurses than your own friends/family?

    Merlyn replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Mazel tov! You made it now for the bad news. No one can understand a nurse except another nurse. No non nurse can understand what we do. What is important to us is not important to a plumber and...

  3. The Mockery of Nursing

    Merlyn replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    a tongue is a terrible thing to

  4. Junior in high school, interested in becoming a nurse but confused!

    Merlyn replied to lwang's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ashamed? The economy and the job market will not be the same, if will be worst. We are already in hock to China and Japan. Hospitals will continue to cut back on staff. Hospitals of yesterdays...

  5. should i quit?

    Merlyn replied to pyocola's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    This is the life you chose. It gets better as time goes on. I was lucky In LPN school, after 4 months, we worked on the floor as nurses. The regular staff went and drank coffee, and we worked their...

  6. Junior in high school, interested in becoming a nurse but confused!

    Merlyn replied to lwang's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My advise. Don't be a nurse. The market is flooded with nurses already. Take up business administration, computer science, law first. Read these boards. See how the graduate nurses are not getting...

  7. The Mockery of Nursing

    Merlyn replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Move her in Jersey. Then go postal. No death sentence. Along with the life sentence (7 years) you get to wear scrubs in a bar when you go out drinking

  8. Am I the only one

    Merlyn replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in Home Health

    Now that you explained it. I have down it. No matter our title, some of us remember the oath, " ...and dedicate ourselves to those placed within our charge." You were just being a

  9. Dealing with "Web-Trained" Patient/Family Members.

    Merlyn replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in General Nursing

    I'm against Dr. Phil. He can put the most serious mental disease on his show and in less than 1 hour cure it. Not matter if it is a little school nervousness to full blown crippling

  10. Am I the only one

    Merlyn replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in Home Health

    Your patient you do it? what does the ALF nurse do? I don't understand how she could be your patient if she lives at a ALF unless you work agency, if you do isn't that your job, to give her extra...

  11. Should I feel bad about this?? New grad wanting to quit days.

    Merlyn replied to Bonnie86's topic in Medical-Surgical

    What is the problem? Go to the place that is closer to your home. Don't "Suck it up". Go! Don't expect to sleep on nights. I work nights for almost 25 years. There are times when you might get a...

  12. Nursing Instructor Issues

    Merlyn replied to cwilliams6's topic in General Students

    Last day with her. Lets see. Do you have a .45? Seriously, you will meet a lot of people like her. For that one day whatever she says is fine with you. After you finish nursing school you can always...

  13. Nurses eat their young - now I understand why.

    Merlyn replied to RN_Marie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No need to worry about the superior nursing students. When and if they graduate reality hits them right square in the ass. You see the superior new nurses on this board every day. Crying because they...

  14. Nurses eat their young - now I understand why.

    Merlyn replied to RN_Marie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And that phase of the moon. Excuse me, I have to go and

  15. so happy and scared!

    Merlyn replied to loveprn's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Great News. Now you learn how to be a nurse. Hope you have a long and happy

  16. New grad with a question

    Merlyn replied to beeker's topic in First Year After Licensure

  17. New RN, what kind of makeup can I use to cover a tattoo?

    Merlyn replied to lilybug12's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A company by the name of 'Bloody Mary' has a tattoo covering kit. http://www.dearbloodymary.com/makeup_products.html They carry a lot of horror and goth

  18. Pre-nursing anxiety

    Merlyn replied to squeakercarp's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The best advise is take a brake before you have a brake down. It gets harder. You need to take some time. Don't base your education on test, focus it on learning. Not once in 40 some years of nursing...

  19. Nurses eat their young - now I understand why.

    Merlyn replied to RN_Marie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Trained! I hate working with Trainable Charge Nurses. They say they are paper trained, but when you work with them you always find little presents they leave in the hall. You have to hit them on the...

  20. Pill falls on pt gown...is it safe to give?

    Merlyn replied to sle1191's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Med falls on gown = Med error. That's a new one on me. If the gown was dirty, or the pill landed in spit. I could see that, but on his gown. My rule for 40 some years on clean gown give the pill. On...

  21. Nurses eat their young - now I understand why.

    Merlyn replied to RN_Marie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Didn't coin it, but repeated it on Monday? Night Main Event back in the 80's when he was a co-host with the late, great Gino Marella- Gorilla

  22. Nurses eat their young - now I understand why.

    Merlyn replied to RN_Marie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "The scum always raises to the top of the water" -- Jesse

  23. New Nurse's 1st Crash & Burn

    Merlyn replied to JazzyK89's topic in MICU, SICU

    Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, World of Nursing! Nights like the one you describe have and are happening to all nurses every day. I guess they didn't tell you that in Nursing School, that you would...

  24. Dealing with "Web-Trained" Patient/Family Members.

    Merlyn replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in General Nursing

    I baffle them with my BS. I say something like "yes, WEBMD says that But that disease has another web site you have to look for it. I found it at the very end of my goole search it was attack on to a...

  25. How would you comfort a dying atheist?

    Merlyn replied to stripbubbles's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    We do feel peace, Sweet Soul. In the beauty of a sunset. When I'm alone in the forest or listening to Beethoven's Fifth. To gaze into the sky and see the tail of the Milky Way. For a Surgeon to cut...