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The Agony and the Ecstacy is very good. Also, you can rent the video of the same name starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. A better one, made more recently, is "Vincent and Theo". This really gets down to the family dynamics of having a family ...

This one will hit you. In some places they actually make dressings with maggots inside the decubs. The maggots eat the dead tissue and seem to cleanse the wound. Lots of articles on it in the Index Medicus. Of course, these are special maggots for ...

Dear Mayo, While agree the purpose was originally supposed to make for easy identification of specialty areas- and is supposed to be, unfortunately many have somehow managed to assign more exclusive and competitive meanings to it. That is why in ce...

You got it. Write 'em up. You don't have options here. As the man said, "Hoist them up the flag pole and watch them slowly twist in the wind." Hope you charted the living daylights out of the man's decub and your interventions. The facility can't ...

Rane330, Write 'em up. They are there for the patients, not themselves or their assuming friendships. You, on the other hand, have nothing to lose but a bad job. I am usually very casual about staff. They know what they have to do and know they ha...

I'm too old to be jumpting through any hoops anymore and have been in nursing too long to bore the socks off you. 1. Jog security. Here you have it. Its the most needed. With my Boomer generation coming up, it'll figure in like a tidal wave. 2. Sa...

Imagin916. Hope my letter didn't disturb you. I seems you are the exception- and kudos all round. You are in the groove unlike so many. You have the fire. Great going! I must recognize you as a colleague. But, just between you and me, you know a...

I do LTC as an agency RN. I figure I needed a break from the hairy-scary and the fact that I'm almost 60. (Still got the Right Stuff, though). So, I work with a lot of LPNs. Often, they will try to apologize for their lack of the kinds of knowledge...

RN- Jane. Get out of there now and don't wait until things blow up in your face. Remember: It is your license and only you can lose it. And remember how difficult it was to get it. For those nurses who wish to stay, I say: ORGANIZE! UNIONIZE! An...

Boe, Welcome to the wonderful world of Nursing and Nursing Education. From now on, if you stick with it, you will be required to digest and regurgitate-upon-command vast amounts of information, read mountains of text, take innumerable tests, develop ...

Why does Nursing eat its young, respond with vehemence and hostility to colleages, disrespect the common rules of courtesy, openly and even in front of patients and their families challenge Nursing judgement, supervisors and managers openly criticizi...

Dear Vicky, Thank you for the request. As is my policy, I only send copies of this to colleagues who wish to use them as part of their scheduled classes, or for them to peruse and critique. I only mail them signed and under the conditions agreed to...

Sarah, I respect your decision. But, I think you will find dress codes, either written or implied, in almost all other professions. A lawyer would not dare show up in court in the same clothes he wears to mow the lawn, nor would a physician see a pa...

forgot something: NO! I don't hink hospitals have any right telling a nurse what she or he can wear as long as it is clean professional. It is WE who ought to do the regulating. Let me tall you something about most hospitals. The only color they c...

Here is why I think there ought to be uniform codes. (I'm not as conservative as you might think). 1. Patients recognize nursing uniforms. They should, to me, be basically white, with discreet patterns for friendliness (like in Pedi). I'm not impr...

While I am personally quite conservative in this area believing that every graduate have a firm background in Med/Surg Nursing for at least a year, (its like an internship. I wouldn't trust a nurse who didn't have that experience.), I wonder about t...

Here's how I work it: First, I expect it. I stay ready for a shift, especially if its a short call. Second, because we do make a lot more money than the people who work on "Maggie's Farm", I have a savings account to fall back on. I've been cancel...

I tutor for the exam and all my subjects have passed (since its P/F now). First, I go to the NLN site and get an idea of what will be focussed on the next time (say Pediatrics) and make a note, writing a lesson plan for it. Second, I use as my base K...

Pediatrics is something I'd never, cannot, do. Kids are almost alien to me in their medicine with everything different than adults. I have the highest respect for Pediatric Nurses and sonder how they do it. I didn't do well in it at college because...