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    Advice please

    NurseCard replied to ert01479's topic in General Nursing

    No phlebotomists in a big teaching hospital? Are you serious?? Even my little tiny hospital has phlebotomists. Every hospital that I've worked in has had them. The only time I've ever had to draw...
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    Sample voicemail greeting for an oncall runner for hospice

    NurseCard replied to guest907278's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds
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    "You made a mistake."

    NurseCard replied to CharleeFoxtrot's topic in General Nursing

    For me it's never one neglected patient; it's a whole group of patients that I knew I had and kinda ignored all shift. Is that
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    "You made a mistake."

    NurseCard replied to CharleeFoxtrot's topic in General Nursing

    I always dream that it's the end of the shift, and I have barely laid eyes on any of my patients, and I haven't given them any meds, so now I'm scrambling through the MAR, the PAPER MAR, to see what...
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    need advice: new RN with doubts

    NurseCard replied to newRN02's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OP, I am struggling with what to say to you without being too pessimistic, or bringing you down even more. Do you have ANY idea what type of nursing, field of nursing, that you might eventually want...
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    Job Websites

    NurseCard replied to Renell's topic in Nursing Career

    I used to always use CareerBuilder.com. Is it still around? These days I use
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    Preparing for the unthinkable

    NurseCard replied to Jacquipals's topic in School

    Just yesterday morning (Friday), schools in my county were called off due to a very legitimate threat. There was a 20 year old living just a few yards from the high school who had guns, lots of...
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    New RN Grad Need Guidance Please :()

    NurseCard replied to NewICUNurse93's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Two things that are very common with new grads: 1) They often do not do well going right into ICU. 2) They often "do not know what they do not know" There's nothing wrong with doing something a bit...
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    Staff attacked by resident

    NurseCard replied to nurseguy213's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I knew what to tell you other than, I also once had a resident like this. She was AWFUL. She would scream, hit, kick... you name it. She was mostly alert and oriented too, with occasional...
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    New grad hired as charge nurse

    NurseCard replied to mdenton's topic in General Nursing

    What you described sounds completely normal for most nursing homes. It actually sounds like you've found a good one. As long as your CNA's are doing their jobs properly and keeping the residents...
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    Case Study: Why Is She Having Hallucinations? The Mystery of The Dog in A Fedora

    NurseCard replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    Major depressive disorder with psychotic
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    Pagan in a Catholic Hospital...

    NurseCard replied to Kaelsdream's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I left this forum and came back a few days later. Wow. Vetpharmtech, you've mentioned my name and my post about six times. I only posted ONCE. And that was simply to share my experience, what my...
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    How do you work your three days/nights ?

    NurseCard replied to Hershell's topic in General Nursing

    Well you definitely don't want to do every other night. Every other DAY might work for most people, but every other night?.. on your days off, you would always be too tired to do anything. Other than...
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    Blood specimen from iv sites.

    NurseCard replied to omotee's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting thread... my facility just recently laid down the law, that labs are NOT to be drawn from PIV's, only from PICC lines or Central lines, or ports. I'm honestly not 100% sure of the...
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    Do you ever get concerned about certain users on here?

    NurseCard replied to Bakingismylife's topic in General Nursing

    I'm quite unstable, and thanks for
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    Seeking tips for nursing in Hawaii

    NurseCard replied to shawest21's topic in General Nursing

    Buy a good surfboard? Actually in all seriousness, as has been alluded to already, I don't think the job market there is very good. I will also say this... I was offered a travel position once....
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    Inclement weather conditions...mandatory to work?

    NurseCard replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sitting here trying to decide what I would do if faced with this type of situation. I suppose if my family and I were in the path of a hurricane... well, hopefully I would still have family...
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    Hot Cheetos are a public health menace

    NurseCard replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I tried posting a picture of one, but the picture was too
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    Hot Cheetos are a public health menace

    NurseCard replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Don't let any of these posts distract you from the following fact: A Flamin Hot Cheetos Frappucino, is actually a
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    Hot Cheetos are a public health menace

    NurseCard replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I.love.Hot.Cheetos. That is all.
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    When did being pregnant become a disability?

    NurseCard replied to guest940422's topic in General Nursing

    I too have been pregnant twice. The first time I worked up until about two weeks before I delivered. There were just too many things I felt like I could not or should not do anymore. The second...
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    Not sure how to handle this situation with recent interview

    NurseCard replied to Southpawdown's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, let me tell you what happened to ME! So I went to interview for a job in a facility that I had wanted to work, for a very long time. Well, it just so happened that this facility had just been...
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    Am I a woosy for feeling 5 patients is too much on a medsurg floor

    NurseCard replied to PaperPushingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Those numbers are absolutely ridiculous. 8 patients with no assistants?? Unreal. Not acceptable in my opinion. To me 8 patients is too many WITH an assistant, but probably doable if the patients...
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    Where Were You...9/11

    NurseCard replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I had worked all night that night, and was in bed, had been in bed for about an hour I guess. My husband burst in the bedroom door about 930 am or so? He said "An airplane just flew into the...
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    LTC nurses...

    NurseCard replied to Cora_Ann's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am an RN, and in most of my LTC experience, I have done the same job as the LPN's, pretty much... passing medications, doing treatments, charting, etc.. just wanted to put that out there. Not...