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  1. Charity Patients

    Fiona, what is wrong about calling someone a charity case? What is horrifying about that? These patients have a common denominator - noncompliance. Have you had anybody beg for your forgiveness but do...
  2. Charity Patients

    The amputee patient I mentioned apparently is not allowed to go AMA so it looks like our hospital is stuck with him until the course of his life runs over which is being hastened by his in...
  3. Passing things on

    There is a nurse in my hospital who stays 3-4 hours to chart every single day! I'm normally working the unit but I've done the floor too and it is doable to get out in time 99% of the
  4. Charity Patients

    Oh wow. We used to have a child molester in our unit and the nurse will not go to his room
  5. Well, then again only 60% may make it nursing school. However, in my other degree, the tests are hard that teachers have to curve the grades or only a few will pass. They don't curve in nursing school...
  6. I agree. I have a microbiology degree prior to nursing and I hate nursing tests. Thank God after many practice, I got good enough that I passed the nclex. I would rather the questions be like...
  7. Patients who love their sick role

  8. Is having an ADN really a terrible choice?

    To answer the question, it's not terrible. A degree is a degree and a certification is a certification. If you want to advance yourself, it should be for your own satisfaction. My husband do not have...
  9. Is Anyone PCCN Certified?

    Hey all. I have woodruffs audio cd but it's from 2005. What do you think? I already have two other books, pass CCRN and an orange one by accn. Is this
  10. Quit nursing school after two months...

    You know who you are and since nursing is not what you wanted to begin with, it shows. I went to nursing wanting it. Although I am bad with nursing skills in nursing school, I always come out of the...
  11. Is having an ADN really a terrible choice?

    BSN Prepared Nurses Connected to Fewer Patient Deaths This is one of the reason. New York will stop hiring ADN next year. I don't know which classes BSN students take which is not in the ADN program...
  12. Patients who love their sick role

    I love all you guys examples and makes me feel like I am not alone in this world! This brings me to another point though, the ridiculousness of HCAPS.
  13. Patients who love their sick role

    Yeah good point I forgot to mention about the patient with the scds which I posted above. Don't you love patients who are up ad lib but asks for a bed bath and sits there like he is ready for his spa...
  14. Patients who love their sick role

    I need to practice responding to these requests without getting flustered, flabbergasted and having a ***
  15. Passing things on

    I'm not stereotyping. I'm talking in particular about my floor and not every hospital in United States of
  16. Patients who love their sick role

    Thanks. A patient yesterday also wanted her scds on but will not put it on herself when she is able to do it. I told her that since she is up ad lib, maybe she should put it on while she sleeps to...
  17. Passing things on

    The level of irritability of your next nurse is a measure of their character not mine. I am a hard worker and does everything I can on my shift. I work days on a total care floor so I do extra work...
  18. Girl I hope it gets better for
  19. Charity Patients

    Why can't illegals be taken back to Mexico? Why patients who are continuously documented to be non compliant to the point of dying, and I know for sure they do this to stay in the hospital, be given a...
  20. Saw a nurse yelling at a patient in ICU

    I'm relatively new nurse and after all the old people who can't hear who had been my patient, I tend to use this loud voice to talk to elderly. It's a mistake that I should avoid but in reports most...
  21. talk to me about oklahoma

    We dont get a lot of snow, very humid, hot summers. Tornadoes in May. Fishing and hunting is popular here. Lots of churches if you like religion. I am single, call me! (lol
  22. Nurses not speaking english at work

    I am born in the Phils and we have over 100 local dialects. My first language is Tagalog which is the national language and whenever I am around with another Filipino who starts talking in their local...
  23. Reebock EasyTone or Sketchers ShapeUp shoes

    Hello. I have a reebok shapeup and my friend and another coworker has sketchers. Unfortunately, we do not see any difference. If you are going to buy one buy a reebok since it is so much better...
  24. Nursing School vs. Family

    get ready to lose a lot of sleep! every minute counts when you start nursing school. no more dilly dallying around! that is my plan of attack when i start this fall because i will be keeping my full...
  25. nursing vs medicine

    oh lord your not even in med school and you already look down on nursing. be an