cb_rn

cb_rn

CT stepdown, hospice, psych, ortho

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  1. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    cb_rn replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the 18 year old visitor who doesn't want me to come the room to hang an IV because her 19 year old fiance is naked while she gives him a full body bath..."Sweetheart, I have 3 male children. I have...

  2. math question

    cb_rn replied to lake girl's topic in General Nursing

    It would have been odd to have a math problem on homework that you wouldn't be able to answer without more information. It was just worded to be tricky and see if you knew how many ml were in a tsp....

  3. Where are all of the "experienced nurses hiding?"

    cb_rn replied to SWS RN's topic in General Nursing

    There are plenty of topics that are fine for non-nurses to post on, I think (could be wrong) OP is referring to ones that have a specific context where only a nurse would be able to relate or...

  4. math question

    cb_rn replied to lake girl's topic in General Nursing

    It would be really nice if people that posted questions would post what they think the answer is as well. I'm not being nasty at all, so don't take it that way. I don't mind helping and there are...

  5. Should I continue or should I not?????

    cb_rn replied to nancypants's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, I have to comment on this. Do not go to nursing school because you think it will give you portability and job security. Right now, in this economy, this is a fallacy. I know grads from 2009...

  6. online BSN programs

    cb_rn replied to aflac381's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I am not disparaging their education but I will say I talked to a recruiter at South University and it was a high pressure sales pitch and before I could even get a transcript evaluation finalized...

  7. Where are all of the "experienced nurses hiding?"

    cb_rn replied to SWS RN's topic in General Nursing

    I want to preface this by saying I love mentoring nursing students when I have time. I have gone to graduations and preceptored some of my former student nurses. I'm willing to bet that most of those...

  8. Brain cancer metast. from lung, Diagnosis??

    cb_rn replied to nursetobehopefully's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    how much do you know about palliative care? I found doing hospice people had a wide range of expectations for what hospice was and wasn't. And it wasn't what I thought it was, either! A knowledge...

  9. Last Offices

    cb_rn replied to iNurseUK's topic in General Nursing

    In nursing school if a patient passed, we had to wheel them downstairs with another student to the basement after we performed the final care. It was down a long, secluded hallway and nobody was...

  10. Is this too many courses???

    cb_rn replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    Depends on you. Chemistry is the subject I have to study most for, it has a great deal of math. I'm suprised they are letting you take it if you are in a non degree math course (unless its not...

  11. False + on drug screen

    cb_rn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Interesting fact I just found out...maybe I was asleep in school the day we covered this... but it seems there are a few docs and labs that don't know this either protonix can create a false positive...

  12. False + on drug screen

    cb_rn replied to cb_rn's topic in General Nursing

    haha yeh - that is pretty strange, I didnt do a lot of investigation on the site, it was one of the first things that popped up in my google search just to give a relative idea of the different things...

  13. False + on drug screen

    cb_rn replied to cb_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I have no doubt you can distinguish a false + from a true one with some investigation. I just think its interesting. Especially that there are so many common drugs on that link I posted above (which...

  14. Last Offices

    cb_rn replied to iNurseUK's topic in General Nursing

    what the heck bunsterj...lol...did someone think they were going to get up and walk

  15. Start up Home Health business

    cb_rn replied to Joe_Black's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Once you work out the nuts and bolts of what you have to do to be legal, make sure you network. Home health care is a referral business (need a doc's order), so you need contacts with the case...

  16. False + on drug screen

    cb_rn replied to cb_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I would have thought so as well. Evidently not. Actually this little tibit of knowledge came back from someone who tested postive demanding to see the physician and the lab supervisor. The lab...

  17. was i wrong?

    cb_rn replied to Lissacheer87's topic in General Nursing

    If she thought that the finding was normal she should teach the student the reason for her thinking "Its often normal to lose that amount fresh out of surgery but lets assess the patient -- lets see -...

  18. was i wrong?

    cb_rn replied to Lissacheer87's topic in General Nursing

    I know lots of schools have great nursing instructors but sometimes you have ones that haven't done bedside nursing in a while but try to act like they still remember everything. I dunno how much...

  19. New grad experiences

    cb_rn replied to bumLVN's topic in General Nursing

    self medicate with a glass of wine before bed ...j/k (sort of). Being the newbie is stressful. Keep reviewing your textbooks based on the patients you had that day to help reinforce why you completed...

  20. agency asking me to go back and sign Mars-help

    cb_rn replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely wouldn't sign that you didn't give them and ESPECIALLY not patient refused. That would make you just as culpable as signing off that you gave something that you didn't. I don't find it...

  21. Gonzaga (WA) FNP Distance Program

    cb_rn replied to RavenAngel's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I'm starting this program in summer so ill be glad to give you some info once i'm in it. i can tell you the admission process was a piece of cake except that darn MAT test. get a good review book. (I...

  22. what is the shortest amount of time you've lasted at a nursing job?

    cb_rn replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    two weeks, brand new nurse with freshly minted nursing license on med-surg/peds/tele/everything but a ventilator or drip floor at small community hospital. Three nurses called out on night shift and I...

  23. Is it worth it to keep trying? Desperate for answers!

    cb_rn replied to americanlatina313's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that you should jump back in and find something you love and that you are meant for...don't know that HH is it. You can have very sick home health patients that really could be hospice but...

  24. I want you to help me, but you will do it my way.....

    cb_rn replied to Daisy Doodle's topic in Emergency

    I just remembered this story from my orientation, ahahaha I must have blocked it out. Pts could go outside and smoke with MD order and everyone had the MD order. Newly diagnosed diabetic, just out of...

  25. Can nurses legally "refuse" to take a new admit?

    cb_rn replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

    Ill tell you what pisses me off about this whole matter...i dont do LT care so maybe me three cents aren't welcome here but I have seen, on more than one occasion, a charge nurse get bullied into...