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  1. Nursing Diagnosis

    Fribblet replied to healthstar's topic in General Nursing

    Check out your library or local bookstore. They have entire books devoted to nursing

  2. How can I get OUT of Med Surg and into ICU, ER??

    Fribblet replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    You can learn and still think your job sucks at the same time. I'd never work med/surg out of choice because that's not the kind of nursing that suits me. There's nothing wrong or arrogant about...

  3. From new student nurse to new RN...nursing diagnosis?

    Fribblet replied to Frazzled_One's topic in General Students

    I'd go so far as to say that most nurses don't understand them

  4. From new student nurse to new RN...nursing diagnosis?

    Fribblet replied to Frazzled_One's topic in General Students

    In the ER I've never seen them, but they're not too useful down there. If nursing school did a better job of teaching the pathophysiology of diseases, then nursing diagnoses would have even less of a...

  5. Why I love allnurses ... seriously

    Fribblet replied to grandmawrinkle's topic in General Nursing

    I think that it's important to remember that SDN stands for STUDENT doctor forums. While, I'm sure, there are many licensed physicians that post on those boards, many of them still haven't got a clue...

  6. From new student nurse to new RN...nursing diagnosis?

    Fribblet replied to Frazzled_One's topic in General Students

    In my corner of the hospital settings nursing diagnoses are not used. Partly because we don't have time to formulate a diagnosis and a correlating care plan, but mostly because they're

  7. I need two people to respond to this question about nurses and attire.

    Fribblet replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

    I think asking non-nurses this question would yield more interesting

  8. Care plan help needed

    Fribblet replied to sunshine12's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    :bugeyes::bugeyes:

  9. California nurses and medical marijuana

    Fribblet replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Pain Management

    Educational. Thank you! I learned alliteration in college: Puff,

  10. California nurses and medical marijuana

    Fribblet replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Pain Management

    hehe I get it, man, and you're totally freakin' me out! From what I understand, not all cannabis plants contain the much coveted THC. So, unless you can trace the genealogy of your plant, it may not...

  11. California nurses and medical marijuana

    Fribblet replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Pain Management

    I can grow antibiotics in my kitchen and I can plant poppies in my back yard. And, if we're talking street value, pot is already cheaper than narcs. Crack is cheaper than picking up a prescription...

  12. Nurse Practitioner

    Fribblet replied to ttpurtee's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Considering many nurses are skipping the bedside and going straight on to get their practitioner degree, I'd say PAs will be more in demand. NP schools are deficient without significant

  13. California nurses and medical marijuana

    Fribblet replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Pain Management

    It just needs to be legalized period. Alcohol is more deadly and addictive. Also, regarding marijuana being "overprescribed," so are narcotics and antibiotics. What's your

  14. not looking "put together"

    Fribblet replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    see, that's why i don't quilt. too much ironing. i do sometimes kill two birds with one stone and steam my clothes while i shower. if that doesn't work, then there's the

  15. not looking "put together"

    Fribblet replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    Hell, I don't even own an

  16. About transgendered patients

    Fribblet replied to YEGRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gender is cultural; sex is biological. If a person has had sexual reassignment surgery, then they are now a transexual, and, for all intents and purposes, male or female (depending on which surgery...

  17. Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

    Fribblet replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Grandmawrinkle isn't doubting the individual experience. What she's doubting is the extrapolation of the individual experience to all of nursing. And the stories collected in this thread are not the...

  18. LPN to RN wage in current LPN position

    Fribblet replied to sallyjane's topic in LPN to RN

    LPN and RN "duties" are different in LTC. A LPN cannot do a nursing assessment, or the initial assessment, or something along those lines. The OP very clearly stated that she would not be working in...

  19. Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    Fribblet replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    Right, and, as a professional, I use terms with a patient that they understand. If it bothers someone that I refer to a brief using the same terminology that my patient uses and understands, I don't...

  20. Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    Fribblet replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    So was I, but I've started taking queues from my patients who refer to their "briefs" as "diapers" or "a pamper." More often than not, with my patient population, I've gotten confused looks when I...

  21. Just a random vent

    Fribblet replied to himilayaneyes's topic in General Nursing

    I find that often people who act obnoxiously to staff and claim they are a nurse, really aren't nurses. That's not to say that there aren't nurses who have behaved badly like this, but frequently, if...

  22. Do you think a professor will write you 20plus letter of recommendation?

    Fribblet replied to nowIamRN's topic in General Nursing

    They only need to write one and make 20 copies. That being said do you not have anyone else who can write you a recommendation? Have you never had an

  23. Germ fatigue...

    Fribblet replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    Remember nursing caps? Those were worn how long before they were laundered? And does anyone really think that MDs wear a fresh lab coat every

  24. Germ fatigue...

    Fribblet replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    I wear my hospital shoes inside the house and don't wash my scrubs and clothes separately (unless I've gotten blood or vomit or something on them). I only shower after I get home (I always shower...

  25. Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    Fribblet replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    I think patients and nurses call them diapers because that's what they are. I don't call a needle "the sharp pokey thing that goes jab jab;" I call it a