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  1. Don't People Have Bills To Pay?

    weirdscience replied to Ruby Vee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Take heart, some of us do have bills to pay! I'm just a breath away from my one-year mark, and it's been tough. I've not cried, but I'm pretty sure my tear ducts are non-functional. I work nights on a...

  2. Ugghhh, another new nurse...

    weirdscience replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

  3. I notice nice veins!

    weirdscience replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Me too! I fiddle with my husband's wrist and arm veins absentmindedly until he gets irritated and tells me to

  4. New Graduate/First Job Med/Surg

    weirdscience replied to tara3hughes's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Wow, BSNINTHEWORKS...that advice is solid gold for med/surg. I wish I'd read that a year

  5. Hard and Soft Skills

    weirdscience replied to TheCommuter's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is true in many, many other fields as well. Nursing is finally catching up with other "businesses" in this sense. Great article as always,

  6. Chest Tube Air Leaks

    weirdscience replied to MidwestICURN's topic in General Nursing

    This oughta be a sticky. Great

  7. What caused the hypothermia?

    weirdscience replied to AlphaPig's topic in General Nursing

    I thought I remembered learning that a low temp in the elderly often DOES mean sepsis...am I crazy? Not that 60 is elderly, but w/those

  8. They didn't teach me that in school

    weirdscience replied to sax82677's topic in Oncology

    Also newish, also hem/onc, also lost a parent to cancer prior to nursing. May I ask how long it has been since yours passed? The residual grief may be compounded as patients pass on the same floor...

  9. Night shift sleep patterns?

    weirdscience replied to theantichick's topic in General Nursing

    Night owl since birth. I've been on nights since April. I started out flipping my schedule, but I would nearly pass out at odd times throughout the day, so I stopped, and now I keep a night schedule...

  10. Don't go into nursing school if_____

    weirdscience replied to 2k15NurseExtern4u's topic in General Students

    "Time of the month." Heh. How many nurses have gone their entire 13 hour shift without peeing and upon finally going, their first thought was, "Jeez, I hope I didn't just give myself TSS." (I tried to...

  11. I had time for a chat....

    weirdscience replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Emergency

    Really great post. I'm in med/surg oncology, so even though I'm pretty new, I've had a couple opportunities to interact with patients on this level. It's such a good reminder of the idealism I had...

  12. Don't know what to do

    weirdscience replied to pseudo_name's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Less than a year here, too. I say stay on nights, grab any experience you can get. If you still have a job, there's a reason. Trust and believe, they'd get rid of you if your performance were a real...

  13. Question for nurses working in various ICU settings

    weirdscience replied to karenlm's topic in Critical Care

    They were testing

  14. Tired of hearing about the kids.

    weirdscience replied to TECHTORNHOPEFULLY's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  15. Is this common with teaching hospitals?

    weirdscience replied to liketheairport's topic in General Nursing

    I can only tell you some pretty dated info, but it speaks to what you describe. My mom, in 1982-83, was s/p molar pregnancy. It was pretty brutal for her and she basically ended up delivering a dead...

  16. really sad

    weirdscience replied to MadpeysRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I hear you. Less than a year new grad, almost 6 months on my own, and my second biggest driving force (apart from trying to be the best I can be for my pts) is trying to get everything done so I don't...

  17. Assessing Acute Abdominal Pain vs. Cancer Abdominal Pain

    weirdscience replied to Nurseknit's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    That's kind of where I was going with my question to the OP, as well. If she brought pain to the MD's attention and the MD chastised her because this was chronic disease-progression type pain, that to...

  18. Assessing Acute Abdominal Pain vs. Cancer Abdominal Pain

    weirdscience replied to Nurseknit's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Was their feedback because you missed identifying an acute situation, or because you brought what you thought was an emerging issue to their attention and it turned out to be "normal" disease...

  19. 8hr vs. 12hr work days

    weirdscience replied to sjm30's topic in Nurse Management

    I wouldn't do this job if it were 5 days a week. I enjoy nursing more than my office gigs but the compressed work week was a huge draw for

  20. We are AllNurses!

    weirdscience replied to The_Optimist's topic in General Nursing

    Nicely

  21. Family claims hospital's staff shortage responsible for fatal crash

    weirdscience replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I can't believe (well, yes, I guess I can) that most people are like, "welp, yeah, being a nurse is hard and all, but PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY..." Try working a 13 hour overnight with no lunch one time....

  22. Unhappy camper looking for some advice from nurses

    weirdscience replied to skigirl8's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was a longtime office worker who left my field of 12+ years for nursing, for all of the same reasons you mentioned. I'm a newish grad--working since Feb, on my own since June, so take my opinion for...

  23. Oh! My feet! What are the best shoes to wear at work??

    weirdscience replied to Yellibee's topic in General Students

    Danskos+ knee high compression socks. Just the socks should take care of throbbing legs,

  24. Too Much Suffering

    weirdscience replied to GundeRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Amen to this. We have such a warped view of death and dying in this country (I guess I'm assuming you're in the US,

  25. Can I travel with my dog who is a pit mix?

    weirdscience replied to neurogirl77's topic in Travel

    Get a doggie DNA test...they're only like $50. My friend has a dog she thought was a pit mix based on looks and she has, like, 2% bull terrier in