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I know a nursing student who frequents the local ED seeking narcotic pain medications...which she always receives. I am concerned for her ability to treat patients while using narcotic medication. Can I anonymously report her? To who?

Hello All, I need a PALS class ASAP before I begin a new job. I have taken it before but need the 2 day as my previous has expired. . Do the online PALS classes provide AHA provider cards? Anybody with any experience taking an online PALS class? ...

Thanks for all your responses! I signed up for the online AHA class and scheduled the skills check-off with my local EMS educator. Total cost...$225. The other non-AHA class was $275 AND I would have missed out on a great concert in LA. Now I get...

So what happened after her "seizure"? Did she get up and skip away?

Kathy White for sure.

How about an EKG?

I was in my final year of nursing school, working in palliative/oncology. I had helped a patient to the bathroom (IV pole and everything) when the tunnel vision began. I managed to squat to the floor to avoid falling as the patient called for help....

I would suggest taking a 12 lead EKG class. Is it not mandatory where you work? Recognizing all types of cardiac rhythms is definitely a qualification for any ICU nurse (where I work anyways).

We recently started having madatory work email. On the first week, we ALL got many emails from a penile enlargement company, and adult lesbian pornography video sales!

Remember the pneumonic DOPE? D - Disconnection O - Obstruction P - Pnemothorax E - Equipment (failure)

" I have seen the difference education and experience in nursing makes. Nurses look at their patients...sometimes reading even the smallest cues that things are wrong, this includes physical and emotional aspects. I have rarely seen physicians with s...

I wanted to be a MD, but didn't want to go away to school as my father had recently died and I felt like my mother needed me. I went to nursing school instead and got my Bachelor's degree. It was only when I was actually in nursing school that I de...

PBJ? Peanut butter and jelly?

For larger patients, I put the bed in trendelemburg and always drop the siderail so I can better position myself. Sometimes I ever have another nurse or two hold her legs up and apart. Haven't missed one in a few years.... (and I'm talking 400-500 p...

Re : Bangarang. Hahah!!! I love that song...however, I feel that I may start trying to spin on the patient's chest rather than compress it..

A paper bag with a bottle of water, and apple, a chocolate square, and trail mix. Oh, and a pin with the CNO's picture on it so we all know what he looks like.

It's not just my family member and SO..it's the day staff who also don't quite get it. I was called at 1100 AM after working 7p-7a - and had to come in again at 7p just to ask about my schedule for the next week. I have also been called by the manag...

Try Your school approved research engines such as MedScape or PubMed. Google may also turn up some articles. AACN just published a really good article recently. Further, therapeutic hypothermia is extremely comon in most hospitals now. If you're doi...

Just wondering what other opinions there may be out there about an incident that happened to me the other night at work. A patient had a syncopal episode while being ambulated after open heart surgery. The nurses lowered him to the floor and called ...

Update..much later of course. I was asked to give a verbal statement of the occurrence by her manager. She was given a counseling and has never worked on our floor since...

If they lie there and let you do it, they probably need it...

So, I've been working in adult critical care for about 10 years now. I've been having some issues with morale at my current job, and was feeling the urge to make a change so I applied for the supervisor position in the ICU I've been working in, as w...

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I have been a charge nurse on my current unit for over 2 years. I am one of 7 RNs that has worked on the unit for > 2 years. We employ about 80 RNs. There were 2 supervisor positions open, and I was...

I'd go to culinary school. And cook for all my nurse friends!

Post # 3 : That's Patch Adams!!! Love it!