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    Double Checking subQ Insulin Requirement

    NurseCard replied to KTakami25's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry I have not answered your original question. I'm in Kentucky. I work in a small community hospital in a small town close to 2-3 large cities (Louisville, Lexington, Cincy). We ARE required to...
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    A Stupid Mistake

    NurseCard replied to ahcolwell's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I've made more mistakes in my career than I can count. Some of them were downright horrible. Some of them made me feel like I needed to hang it up for good. The child is okay. It will be okay....
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    Do you need English and math courses to get into a nursing program

    NurseCard replied to helloego's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, if you are pursuing an RN, then that is an associates degree, and generally you are required to take an English class for sure, and I think a math class as well. If you are LPN, then that may be...
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    New job, "mandatory class / training" but no pay

    NurseCard replied to AnOldsterRN's topic in General Nursing

    No. A sub acute SNF is about the last place I'd want to spend my final years as a nurse. My hats off to you for doing it. I want my last nursing years to be easy-peasy and to me any work in a SNF...
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    Help. No pay for orientation and buy their uniform?

    NurseCard replied to HappyCNA's topic in General Nursing

    Gawd almighty I will never work at another SNF. The whole industry is full of scumbags. Like the ones that own this particular facility. I am with everyone else; go somewhere
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    It used to be given to reduce libido

    NurseCard replied to Truegem's topic in Correctional

    Think I need to get my husband some
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    Weight loss for nurses

    NurseCard replied to tortillaRN17's topic in General Nursing

    This is a sensitive topic. Tread lightly. :) I sympathize with you though. I'm very overweight as well and have been for over 10 years now. I've had a serious issue with my weight every since my...
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    Whatever happened to Anzemet?

    NurseCard posted a topic in Patient Medications

    Was just reading a thread on here about IV vs PO meds for nausea, and it took me back to my salad days as a nurse, lol. 13 years ago when I was working on a primarily post surgical Med Surge floor......
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    Quitting Nursing permanently

    NurseCard replied to BurntRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I suppose you could contact the BON and tell them that you wish to surrender your license. Your post suggests that there are other things going on. Are you in trouble with the BON? What's...
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    Communication Discrimination

    NurseCard replied to WinterLilac's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh my goodness, if I ended up in MA... I would never hear the end of it. As much as I try to watch how I speak, the fact is that I have a terrible KY accent. Ugh!!!
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    Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    NurseCard replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, adult psych tends to be very very quiet on night shift, unless you have a manic person who doesn't sleep, or simply the occasional person who wakes up at night and decides to start throwing and...
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    Do nurses have to work from home?

    NurseCard replied to lilythorburn's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, when you work in a hospital, you are done when you clock out. That doesn't mean that if something happened during your shift that your manager or someone else has a question about, that they...
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    How do you feel about being a nurse?

    NurseCard replied to Grier's topic in General Nursing

    My turn I guess. :) There have been numerous times in my relatively short yet varied nursing career, when I wanted to hang it up. Not so long ago, I even had a real opportunity to walk away... find...
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    NO MORE SNOW DAYS!!!

    NurseCard replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    I'll tell ya what frustrates me about "Winter Storm Stella". I'm here in KY. No snow here. I am however, trying to buy a house, HAVE been for over two months now. My lender, who is FINALLY about to...
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    Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    NurseCard replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    I LOVED night shift when I worked acute psych!!!! SO easy!! The patients mostly slept. Every once in a while we would have an incident on nights in which someone would start "going off".... but...
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    What was your worst shift ever?

    NurseCard replied to Isakolistic's topic in General Nursing

    Shew... I've had some horrible shifts. Most of the worst shifts I've ever had actually occurred during my very first nursing job, on my very first Med Surge unit. I worked on that unit for seven...
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    Double Checking subQ Insulin Requirement

    NurseCard replied to KTakami25's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Soooo.... you planning on moving across country just so that you don't have to have another nurse double check insulin with you? Or were you just curious? Making
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    New Grad rejected from First Hospital

    NurseCard replied to LindseyLou14's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh. That sucks that they actually want you to explain why you were fired. I think your explanation is a bit too wordy. In the future, if you are asked the same question, there's got to be a quicker...
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    Nursing Student From Hell

    NurseCard replied to DWelly14's topic in General Nursing

    The only part of your post that I have just SOME issue with... before you went into the room with Alice to admit that patient, did she know what was expected of her? Did she know she would be doing...
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    Worried about turning in my two weeks

    NurseCard replied to newgradrn2016's topic in General Nursing

    I read your other thread that you started. What is your goal as a nurse? What type of nursing do you feel like you want to be doing? If it isn't sub-acute nursing, and I have to assume that it's...
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    Agency contracts

    NurseCard replied to Adaiello92's topic in General Nursing

    When you work agency, you get little to no orientation usually. It can depend on the facility. Some facilities insist that their agency nurses receive a pretty comprehensive orientation period....
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    If you go to a hospital get ready to YELL

    NurseCard replied to BSN16's topic in General Nursing

    If you read the article "Touching a Raw Nerve",which he wrote in a vain attempt to apologize for the "Get ready to YELL" article... at the end of that article it says "Comments" in a gray
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    Does "BSN preferred" mean "ADNs need not apply"?

    NurseCard replied to nursewall-e's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Yes, I say apply. You never
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    If you go to a hospital get ready to YELL

    NurseCard replied to BSN16's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, this guy is a complete joke. And of course he has a book
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    New nurse missing something I should have caught

    NurseCard replied to DLMJ's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, really curious to know what the other issue