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  1. Awful PCA situation

    Call them and read your Original Post to
  2. Nurse Manager threatening to report me to BRN...

    Hey look, I wrote your report for you. (See
  3. When I started doing my prerequisites for nursing school, a sociology professor asked that exact question of my class. To my (then) amazement, an alarming number of my classmates raised their hands....
  4. Thank you. I'm all about
  5. Hmm...Ms. City Girl is complaining about traffic again. In detail. Details about wonderful life with Mr. Wonderful are noticeably missing. I officially now think that you really don't want to be...
  6. No brainer! You've got a ticking clock and a ticking boyfriend with physical and emotional issues. Get your BSN, go to work, see if you can work it out with Mr. Wonderful then go back and get your...
  7. This timing technique suggested, when implemented properly, is a fantastic way to highlight wasteful parts of a process. It is one of the reasons that Toyota did so well as a car company while...
  8. Groupthink: The phenomenon where a group arrives at a decision collectively that no single person in the group would come to if they had to make a decision
  9. they see dead people

    Of course I would be sensitive to a patient's feelings if they reported something like this, but personally I think we see what we want to see. Parents, siblings, Elvis, Baal.... I heard of an...
  10. Newby wanting to be a nurse/Need advice!

    I would suggest talking to a guidance counselor at your school for some direction. I took my CNA training at the Red Cross, but it sure wasn't free. Sidebar: Does EVERY prospective nurse go through...
  11. Cussed out and disprespected by CNA

    I once saw a CNA aggressively ream out a floor nurse at the nurse's station. I submitted a complete incident report and absolutely nothing happened - no one even asked me about the incident. I asked...
  12. Help with Nursing Diagnosis

    Your diagnosis choices may be making this one a bit harder on yourself than necessary. During your first stab at these, start with the data in the book and go from there. An assignment to stick...
  13. future nurse and taking care of my parents

    I am in a similar situation to you in my age, educational status (I am in a ADN-RN program) and (future) status of parents. However, no matter how far I go in Nursing, I will NEVER be a primary...
  14. Is it really that bad out there?

    In the immortal words of Cheech and Chong: "Hey, things are tough all over." Things will come
  15. Look, accusing me of having "professional and personal issues" simply because I am not "scared" is practically the definition of fear mongering. The facts don't make me "scared" because there is...
  16. I paid a few hundred at the Red Cross and you get that reimbursed if you work in a Medicare funded facility for 90
  17. Currently, it is YOU doing the fear
  18. Nursing School: Did you turn into Jekyll & Hyde?

    I want to choke you just for the font in your OP. Just kidding. A few of my fellow students are reporting similar phenomena and I've even noticed classmates having a go at each other when an exam or...
  19. Hopkins ER vs UMMC ICU

    In this job market I think the OP is just rubbing it
  20. RN student

    Are you supposed to prepare a presentation? Or are you looking for someone to send you one or just cut and paste one from the
  21. Is it ok to call CNA's nurses?

    absofrigginlutely
  22. Do you ever feel like you short-changed someone?

    I feel like that all the time. I just worked my first shift as a CNA in about a year, returning to the LTC Transitional Care Unit I previously worked on. The admissions department has been bringing...
  23. Hello Everyone, Like many fellow students, I've got my nose in the Pocket Guide as a resource for using patient data to create care plans. My intent here is not to debate the usefulness of Care Plans...
  24. "disturbed Energy Field" ...Really?

    Marvelously stated, thank
  25. "disturbed Energy Field" ...Really?

    I've actually done quite a bit of research on pseudoscientific claims. No one has been able to confirm the claims or interventions I described. If they have, please point me to them and we'll go...