Nurse Leigh

Nurse Leigh

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  1. Nurse Bullying

    Nurse Leigh replied to Slhengy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I mentioned in another thread that I was bullied throughout school. People spit in my food, pushed me, grabbed my arm, made nasty comments and other behaviors. I imagine several of the nurses posting...

  2. Nurse Bullying

    Nurse Leigh replied to Slhengy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is disgustingly ageist.

  3. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    Nurse Leigh replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    That medical consultant must have been at craft services while those scenes were being

  4. Dispelling NCLEX myths

    Nurse Leigh replied to Rose_Queen's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I *think* she was posting it as a myth she's heard. Though I have been known to be wrong once or

  5. When should nursing homes be allowed to evict residents?

    Nurse Leigh replied to Emergent's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Something that has been mentioned here and in another thread have me curious about registered sex offenders. How are they placed if the facilities are too close to schools or if there are minors as...

  6. Tattoos and Nursing

    Nurse Leigh replied to Yadisanchez's topic in General Nursing

    I just posted this link on another thread but it looks like it could help here, too. Why the Confederate Flag Made a 20th Century

  7. Should I leave this racist town?

    Nurse Leigh replied to ChutneyFries's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Here's an article from National Geographic regarding the confederate flag. It mostly disappeared after the Civil War and really made it's resurgence in retaliation to the Civil Rights Movement. So...

  8. Should I leave this racist town?

    Nurse Leigh replied to ChutneyFries's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To whom are you replying? Please use the "quote" feature.

  9. Dress Codes for School

    Nurse Leigh replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    This sounds suspiciously like "Did you see how short her skirt was? She was asking to be raped!" to me. Perhaps that was not your intent, but that's how I perceive

  10. New school disease & New treatment regimen

    Nurse Leigh replied to NanaPoo's topic in School

    I remember in high school I suddenly felt terrible. Went to the nurses office and she had me lie down. *sigh* My physics class was right across the hall and I could still hear the teacher. My stomach...

  11. Venting

    Nurse Leigh replied to bugya90's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That's a whole lot of

  12. I harmed my first patient today.

    Nurse Leigh replied to starwarrior's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    So I too had a (male)patient with an indwelling urinary catheter. I walked into his room and to my horror found a splash of blood in his bed. Upon further inspection, I found that he had indeed...

  13. Random Thoughts: School Nurses

    Nurse Leigh replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Just a guess that he won't progress beyond "pre-med"

  14. Nursing speciality for someone that hates people

    Nurse Leigh replied to Gogol's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    :rolleyes: I'm guessing he (she?) means passing with 60 questions because 15 questions on every exam are supposed to be non-graded as they are being tested for future exams. Still all RN NCLEX test...

  15. Nursing speciality for someone that hates people

    Nurse Leigh replied to Gogol's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know. There are roughly 8,048 threads on the NCLEX - writing about one's experience is hardly unique. Why bring it up in every thread? OP, I think you might want to research a few other career...

  16. Question from a doc on NP education

    Nurse Leigh replied to clamchow's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Eh, I'm usually pretty annoyed by poor spelling and grammar but I believe English is a second language for the member in question so I cut her plenty of slack. Especially compared to other posters who...

  17. 2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    Nurse Leigh replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    At least he knows she puts out... (the AN app does not have an appropriate emoticon for the above statement - please imagine what you think should be

  18. The Fifth Vital Sign

    Nurse Leigh replied to bgxyrnf's topic in General Nursing

    Except that I *would* wake SOME patients to take pain medication so that their pain does not get out of hand and we're basically back to square one as far as properly controlling

  19. Partnerships will advance personalized medicine

    Nurse Leigh replied to yhl1975's topic in Advanced Practice

    Right there with

  20. Partnerships will advance personalized medicine

    Nurse Leigh replied to yhl1975's topic in Advanced Practice

    I put the quoted sentence in Google and this is what came up. Top trends to watch in Israel in 2016 | ISRAEL21c So......? I got

  21. Where are all of the holistic nurses?

    Nurse Leigh replied to PaleoNurse's topic in Holistic

    Freaking love this post!

  22. Bernie Sanders gets NNU nod

    Nurse Leigh replied to Farawyn's topic in Nursing News

    But Trump FEELS like a

  23. 2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    Nurse Leigh replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    (((hugs))) ixchel Hope things improve for you. Yeah, psych nursing takes some special skills - not every nurse has those skills, but every nurse has patients with psych diagnoses. This can be...

  24. Bernie Sanders gets NNU nod

    Nurse Leigh replied to Farawyn's topic in Nursing News

    Except they've just called Nevada for Clinton. But she won Nevada 8 years ago as well and did not go on to get the nomination so I'm still Feeling the

  25. Day in the life of a Holistic Nurse?

    Nurse Leigh replied to planetearth's topic in General Nursing

    Because using scientific - evidence based practices is decidedly *not* mutually exclusive to helping our patients in all areas of life as appropriate. Cayenne gave some excellent examples of helping...