metal_m0nk BSN, RN

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    Care plans are stupid.

    metal_m0nk replied to maestrotee's topic in General Nursing

    I love posts like this. Appreciating the historical
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    Time for some introspective criticism perhaps?

    metal_m0nk replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    QFT = Quoted for truth.
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    Irritating Classmates

    metal_m0nk replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    Can I play too?? I know you are, but what am
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    Darn you, allnurses...Darn you all to heck!

    metal_m0nk posted a topic in General Students

    Stop it! Stop tempting me! I'm supposed to be studying. Darn you and your seductive ways. Darn you all to
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    metal_m0nk replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Might come in useful in a convo with a
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    metal_m0nk replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Yep, again. There is a sort of "understanding" (as I found when I was refreshing my A&P) among the faculty on my campus that nursing students are to be handled with care. The curriculum was the...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    metal_m0nk replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    As was described several pages back by a nursing educator, I would imagine that most programs balance their admissions criteria with their bottom line. Higher admissions standards pose the risk of...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    metal_m0nk replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    As an example: In a recent discussion (in my nursing program) about the etiology of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, only 2 of about 50 students (myself and another Biologist in a past life included)...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    metal_m0nk replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Yep. I could have written most every word of this post save for the teaching part - I did a smathering of research before I left the field for a glamorous life of changing diapers, instilling social...
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    Time for some introspective criticism perhaps?

    metal_m0nk replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Probably already been said, but it's probably cheaper in the long run to pay you OT prn than it is to hire, train, and retain new staff. Edit: Yep, there it
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    Irritating Classmates

    metal_m0nk replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    /facepalm
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    Post op nursing care plan help

    metal_m0nk replied to Livingmydream1's topic in General Students

    The answer to that question kinda depends on who you ask. I would check with your professor and get his/her take on
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    Students with young kids...how are you handling it?

    metal_m0nk replied to brittanywatson's topic in General Students

    Asking for advice from other parents, I'm pretty certain, was not meant to be exclusionary for the purposes of being offensive, but exclusionary for the purposes of seeking advice from those whose...
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    How will the new healthcare law in 2014 NOT create more jobs?

    metal_m0nk replied to xInspiredx's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Honestly, we can speculate all we like, but we won't know until we're
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    At my lowest point, my patient lifted ME up...

    metal_m0nk replied to FrazzledButBlessed's topic in General Students

    Amazing story. Those are the folks who make it all worth it. Stick with it so you can be that rock for others like her when they need
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    THE Epic failure of surveys and the new focus on "customer service".

    metal_m0nk replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. What baffles me is...Surely the people who construct and/or direct the construction of these surveys realize how capricious and idiosyncratic customer satisfaction can be. Why on Earth would...
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    Post op nursing care plan help

    metal_m0nk replied to Livingmydream1's topic in General Students

    some other assessment interventions for ineffective tissue perfusion might include capillary refill rates (peripheral) and loc (cerebral). there are many others as well which concentrate on assessing...
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    Students with young kids...how are you handling it?

    metal_m0nk replied to brittanywatson's topic in General Students

    The kind of 24/7/365 commitment and stress you face when you are a parent is something that is difficult to fully comprehend until/unless you are a parent or other full time caregiver (specifically...
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    Students with young kids...how are you handling it?

    metal_m0nk replied to brittanywatson's topic in General Students

    I'm a single parent with a preschooler. I take it a day (or sometimes a minute) at a
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    wearing makeup to work?

    metal_m0nk replied to meghan91's topic in General Nursing

    Heh...I don't know that washing my face with Dove bar soap in the shower qualifies as a skincare regime, but hey, I'll take what I can get. Parabens, dioxanes, petroleum by-products and fragrances...
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    Need Pathophysiology help!

    metal_m0nk replied to living on faith's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    ImThatGuy offered a great description. The truncated version is that when it comes to understanding the movement or stasis of fluids in the body, a firm understanding of osmosis is key. Osmosis is the...
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    wearing makeup to work?

    metal_m0nk replied to meghan91's topic in General Nursing

    It is my impression that full coverage makeup prematurely ages your skin. I haven't worn it more than a handful of days in my lifetime. Don't like the way it feels. I've never needed to wear it, I...
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    wearing makeup to work?

    metal_m0nk replied to meghan91's topic in General Nursing

    Hair? My hair is mid-back length and wild so I usually have to tie it up if I'm going to be in a clinical
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    wearing makeup to work?

    metal_m0nk replied to meghan91's topic in General Nursing

    Does Carmex and mascara
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    'bout time

    metal_m0nk replied to Mulan's topic in General Nursing

    Or in the victim's open eyes...mucous membranes and all