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Not all of them. Orthos, eyes, orals, vascular, and plastics do not have to void. Pretty much everyone else does. SDS unit in hospital which also covers endoscopy. Endos do not void either. About 40-50 cases a day and 30-40 discharge home same day.

I was accepted to the RN-BSN for UTA Online program to start January 2011. Anyone else starting with me?

I did not know it should be changed if they had had a hysterectomy-it make sense though. Thanks!

The reason those patients are not in pain and you are is this...they had a camera shoved up their butt and you had your face peeled down and pulled back up. Plastic surgery hurts a lot...colonoscopy not so much.

I don't understand "floating it in" either, and I've been doing IVs for almost 20 years. Are you saying once you get a flash to withdraw the needle, hook it up to the saline and then continue to advance it? Since moving into periop I do a lot of ...

How is this working out for you so far? Are you doing the online program or the the classroom?

Background- I am a diploma level RN with something like 118 hrs of random college credit. I was applying to a RN-BSN program online and they want to know when I am going to take this test. I googled it and it came up as an aptitude test? I have been ...

Thanks to both of you. I appreciate the info.

When I first applied it meant you were a "RN applicant" until you passed the nclex exam and you had 90 days to do so. I got a job right out of school, had 90 days to pass the test, and was designated as an "RN applicant" on my hospital ID and that i...

Why one of the nurses I work with seems to not want to be on record in the pixis? She always asks someone else to get meds for her patients regardless of how busy we are. I can't quite figure it out, she will let her patient suffer until someone ha...

Yup, I would never do that. When I withdraw a med for a patient, I give that med myself. I never hand off a med, ever. That is part of the irritation...I am doing my work and her work too. I did not realize that is what you all thought I meant was...

Thanks guys. Yeah, we "noticed" that she asks us to medicate her patients for her. It is pretty casually done..."hey, can you get him something for pain for me?" and of course, we administer it ourselves after a quick assessment. (We are in a small...

I am new to phase II and I have a question maybe you can help me with. Sometimes it seems to me like one of the other nurses is so focused on getting the patients out the door that things are being overlooked that are detrimental to the patient. Fo...

Once I said..."Did I get drunk and we get married during the black out? Because only my exhusband has ever spoken to me this way." But generally the doctors have been respectful. I did have one surgeon, whom I was not actually speaking to, literally...

I do think it is a professional boundary crossing but not a HIPPA violation unless you speak to a family member and not directly to the patient. I know it happens all the time and is relatively harmless, so I don't see why the PACU nurse got her kni...

I need to see the flash.

I am pretty sure this is the same medication and SE I have. I had memory issue prior to taking it and they are magnified now, but I would not trade the benefits at this point. That said, it does make me wonder if people think I am stupid, air headed,...

I live in the Salem Lakes/ Rock Lake area of VB which is a nice safe area near TCC and the amphitheater. I do not have trouble with traffic at all in the mornings and rarely have jet noise issues. I love the schools. I would have moved out of stat...

Yup! If I am tired, needing food, or just overwhelmed even the simplest words can completely leave my vocabulary. "Thingy" is one of my big filler words too. Somethimes I just blank and have to stop talking completely for a minute. I have also act...

It happens. Don't beat yourself up about it. I have yet to have a family member or patient get irrate when something like that happens if you apologize for your slip. Most understand the circumstance.

Try not violating it in a six bed ambulatory surgical "pod" where the beds are separated by curtains. You do the best you can under the circumstances.

School nurse for a private day school if you can handle that fifth day.

My last job had an excellent no prexisting conditions Anthem plan that was affordable. My current employer has both United Healthcare and Optima plan...both of which are good. I picked the UHC plan because some of the stuff done at the hospital whe...

It took me almost two months to get mine straight. As to the resignation stuff...my employer attempted to get me to sign a contract which indicated I was voluntarily resigning when they cut my job. I amended the paperwork to state my job was elimin...

Don't have much of a "story", but last we got our first real snow here since '89 or so. Everything closed down that could. It was amazing. Being from WV, I grew up with snow so I always find it laughable when people make runs on the stores for mil...