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  1. Possible Closing of St. Vincent's In Manhattan - Slow Ending of Charity Care in USA?

    tiddles replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    As one who comes from a country where healthcare is a basic human right, it is extremely painful to pay $1000 a month for health insurance for my

  2. Is nursing REALLY for you?

    tiddles replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    I have to admit, I went into nursing because I had no idea of what else I wanted to do. From the start I didn't really care for it but I stuck with it and learned to make the best of it. I don't have...

  3. Student nurses do the darndest things

    tiddles replied to NurseNinaFla's topic in General Nursing

    That reminds me of my first experience having to give a suppository. The nurse handed it to me and I literally froze..I mean could not move. Eventually she took it off me in disgust and did it...

  4. I did the stupidest thing ever

    tiddles replied to shanika1m1's topic in General Nursing

    so tell me again why we are always working around our husbands

  5. Depressed about nursing

    tiddles replied to StudentOnceAgain's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in the hospital for 20 years. The last few years I've been severely depressed and more recently on the verge of starting antidepressants (several of my co workers already are). Two...

  6. Gum Chewing

    tiddles replied to NinetyNine's topic in General Nursing

    Gum was forbidden at my last place of work (as was anything remotely enjoyable) but I still chewed it because I worked nights and no one gave a .... I'm such a

  7. Share your story: How did you land your first nursing job?

    tiddles replied to KeepItReal21's topic in General Nursing

    Another olden day story..I graduated in New Zealand in 1989, 3 yr diploma in nursing. There were NO jobs there. After working as a postie for the summer, I zipped over to Syney, Australia with some...

  8. Selecting malpractice insurance provider

    tiddles replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    I just got NSO liability insurance for a case management position. I was required to get $1 mil per claim/$6 mil aggregate. Cost $174 per year for part time, roughly twice that for full time. I was...

  9. Things I have learned in Nursing

    tiddles replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Saying "now I've seen everything" will only tempt fate to send along something even more

  10. Called to court?

    tiddles replied to LoveANurse09's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would never be able to remember details of an event years after the fact. Just remember - if you didn't document it , it never happened. So chart every med, VS, teaching, any interaction with a pt,...

  11. Called to court?

    tiddles replied to LoveANurse09's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I heard that having your own liability insurance can make you a target for a greedy lawyer who may not otherwise have bothered. Having said that, I have to get my own now, as I'm just starting out as...

  12. Then shouldn't you know better??????

    tiddles replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    I was triaging a pt with abdo pain, whose wife was in my face screaming and swearing at me to get a doctor immediately. I had to leave the room before I said something I regretted and had a co worker...

  13. Accident and Emergecy Nurses - one of a kind

    tiddles replied to snoopy29's topic in Emergency

    It's the ED in other countries (Britain, NZ, Australia). I'd love to work there for a while, just to see how different the attitudes of the patients, nurses, docs etc. are. I recently quit the ED from...

  14. Accident and Emergecy Nurses - one of a kind

    tiddles replied to snoopy29's topic in Emergency

    LOL.That is too hilarious and so true! You really have a way with words,