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  1. How are you spending your retirement?

    Owney replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

    My boss got tired of my complaints about the corners I had to cut trying to give nursing care that I could live with. She retired me (AKA found somebody to lie about me, fire me, contest my 6 months...

  2. New grad RN with questions on IVP meds

    Owney replied to heaverboo's topic in General Nursing

    Heaverboo, When I was in nursing school, way back in the 1980's, we were required to write 3X5 index cards for every drug each of our patients were given. It listed generic &/or trade name(s),...

  3. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Owney replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Babs, From my first day in the ER of a major trauma center, I knew I was putting myself at risk for PTSD. In 1981 I don't think it even had a name yet, and I had no idea how much I was paying until I...

  4. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Owney replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Dear readytolive, zoeboboey gave you a good answer. My therapist thought I might be ready to work after a year, so she gave me a referral to the "rehab counselor." After speaking with her...

  5. Leaving for awhile...ambivalance...help

    Owney replied to 123sunnid's topic in Retired Nurses

    Dear 123sunnid, It sounds as though you should explore your career issues with a disinterested third-party such as your mentor, therapist or pastor. I know next to nothing about floral design, but I...

  6. No more internet access

    Owney replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    My Dear Colleagues, I have seen computers move into hospitals throughout my career. Before the internet (yes, there really was such a time) we had some PCs that were supposedly dedicated to printing...

  7. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Owney replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    My Dear Colleagues, In 1976 I obtained a bachelor of arts degree from San Diego State University, with emphases in developmental, personality, abnormal, and industrial psychology. When I studied...

  8. How are you spending your retirement?

    Owney replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

    Like some of you I retired early (57) and live on disability (SSD). Unlike most of you my boss woke up one morning and decided she no longer loved me so she suspended me and gave the chief of...

  9. Has Anyone Read the Echo Heron Books?

    Owney replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    I read "Critical Care" and "Tending Lives." Heron's career is very much like mine. She worked for 17 years and I worked for 22, mostly ER. In "Tending Lives" each chapter is the story of nurses...

  10. Who are the Uninsured?

    Owney replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Dixiedi, Are you prepared to withold your care to fellow humans and watch them die because they cannot afford to pay it? Why should the greatest country, with the greatest medical care in history...

  11. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    Owney replied to Blackcat99's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    mkue, How can you say FINALLY if you read the date, 27 February? How can you say that Kerry "sings with a different choir every day" if you look at Junior's flip-flops, especially his flip-flop on...

  12. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    Owney replied to Blackcat99's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "Fighting a Comprehensive War on Terrorism" Remarks by Senator John Kerry at the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations February 27, 2004--University of California at Los Angeles--As...

  13. Great book entitled "NURSE"

    Owney replied to kea6783's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I read, "Nurse", by Peggy Anderson, RN when I was a senior nursing student. For a heart-rending story of a Viet Nam Nurse's experience read, "Home Before Morning." I forget the author's name....

  14. I'm so frustrated and sad...

    Owney replied to Sadie04's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sadie04, I hope you archived your message to yourself. If you have not, go back to your post and down load it into your word processor. Whenever your patients care is compromised, you should write a...

  15. History of Expert Witness (Nurses)

    Owney replied to dunga's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I recently saw a discussion on allnurses about getting started in Legal Nurse Consulting. The best advice was to visit the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. They publish the "bible"...

  16. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    Owney replied to Blackcat99's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If Kerry tossed somebody else's medals they were GIVEN to him by another combat Vet to toss. I, like Mr. Kerry, saw the folly of a war for hearts and minds up close and personal. I was at first...

  17. My take on nursing

    Owney replied to New CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone needs to read the books by Echo Heron, RN. Her first one was, "Critical Care", and deals with her own career experiences. The second one I read was "Tending Lives." Each chapter is the story...

  18. Sexual Assualt Photography

    Owney replied to CSI295's topic in Forensic

    cs1295, so nice to see an outsider asking nurses (instead of doctors or hospital administators) about nursing. i could ask about crime at the mayor's office, but you folks give me the real deal. i...

  19. Religion's Place in Nursing

    Owney replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

    BeachNurse, "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."~Ralph Waldo Emerson Are you aware that Emerson was a Universalist minister? Did you know that...

  20. Religion's Place in Nursing

    Owney replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just finished reading every post on this string--WHEW! All of the posts espouse the belief that if there is a god, (s)he would be pleased that we are using our brains to think. The sign on my...

  21. religion and nursing

    Owney replied to alikat70's topic in General Nursing

    The Only Good Religion I was born into a Roman Catholic family of six children. I went to public school for kindergarten, since my local Catholic school did not have one. I went to first grade in...

  22. Religion's Place in Nursing

    Owney replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

    TEN GOOD REASONS FOR JOINING A UNITARIAN-UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION Because here we join with open hearts and minds to worship together, seeking what is sacred among us. Because here we are a...

  23. Religion's Place in Nursing

    Owney replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

    steph, Yeah, well kind of. We don't make up religion out of thin air. We use our mind to look at ALL belief systems and follow what we are obligated to, rather than depending on somebody else to...

  24. Religion's Place in Nursing

    Owney replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am disappointed that nobody seems to have read my post. It is number 75, and admittedly it is rather long. It does discuss my personal account of the best of all religions, which sometimes becomes...

  25. Is there room for sensitive individuals in Nursing?

    Owney replied to nursing6's topic in Nursing Career

    Excellent post! Worth repeating. Congratulations on your RN. I got my licence at age 34, and found myself at first becoming de-sensitised to the mahem that mankind inflicts upon itself. At the same...