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    Difference in gluco checks

    BrandonLPN replied to laderalis's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I use the thumb all the time. Toes sometimes, too. I'm still always in the pts normal
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    Misogyny in Nursing

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

    Another thought, maybe certain professions just naturally attract a certain type of person. I said earlier that office work breeds passive aggressiveness, while manual labor breeds physical...
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    Difference in gluco checks

    BrandonLPN replied to laderalis's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Also, if you don't let the alcohol dry before doing the fingerstick, that can give a false
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    Misogyny in Nursing

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

    This surprises me. It goes against all of my experience. Does he work in an office? I've never worked in a office in my life. But I've noticed that people who do tend to be more passive aggressive....
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    How many of you are forced to clock out to stay back and chart?

    BrandonLPN replied to HelloM1M1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    But if this facility had been unionized, this never would have happened in the first place. Plus laborers and managers are polarized by nature, not by
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    Nursing: Not A Recession-Proof Career

    BrandonLPN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    Grand Rapids, MI is probably one of the least trendy and/or desirable places to live in the country. But after reading about people's experiences in the more "with it" cities, I'm kind of glad I live...
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    Removing a tic from a patient

    BrandonLPN replied to kellycinalli's topic in General Nursing

    I can handle just about anything, but for some reason I think having to do this would really gross me
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    Misogyny in Nursing

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

    Before I became a nursing assistant, then nurse, my only two jobs had been in construction and a moving company. I had had almost no female coworkers. Since coming to nursing, I obviously work mostly...
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    Moving On

    BrandonLPN replied to RN-767's topic in General Nursing

    This may sound condescending, but have you tried just flat out ignoring all the drama? Frankly I look at all the high strung melodramatic drama queens around me as a source of free entertainment. That...
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    Nursing Instructor Continuously Embarrassing Me

    BrandonLPN replied to Jlseeze's topic in General Students

    I'm not seeing the harassment angle either. So the instructor is making speeches about how nurses need to be vocal an proactive. It's a valid point. And it's probably a point he makes to every group...
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    Funny things our patients say

    BrandonLPN replied to Isitpossible's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    There's a little old blind man on my floor who's always sitting by the nurses station. Everytime he hears me go by with the med cart he yells out "here he comes with the pill wagon!" I don't know why,...
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    Are nurses allowed to have their nails painted?

    BrandonLPN replied to f_nurse2b16's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I don't understand how a nurse could even function at her job with fake acrylic nails? Where I work, digital feces removal is a regular task. Can you imagine a nurse with fake nails doing
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    I've made medication error and my mind and confidence is completely shot.

    BrandonLPN replied to jenzul's topic in Patient Medications

    Med errors are definitely a learning experience, and they make us better nurses. My first job out of school was working 11-7 at the county jail. One of our jobs was to note all the orders in the MAR....
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    Giving the wrong meds.

    BrandonLPN replied to Julie19's topic in Patient Medications

    EVERYONE makes med errors once in a great while. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or to stupid and unobservant to notice. What business of yours is it how or if she's being punished? If...
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    Retraining Displaced Workers As Nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    I'm baffled by the posters who criticize those of us who became nurses "for the paycheck". Isn't compensation the reason 99.99999% of people choose the jobs they do. I chose to become a nurse because...
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    Retraining Displaced Workers As Nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    I went to one of those ungodly expensive trade schools for my LPN. As I was unemployed, laid off from construction, the Michigan Works program paid for over 75% of my $27,000 tuition. I NEVER would...
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    New RN, interviewed at an LTC facility.....scared!!!

    BrandonLPN replied to dianne777RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Are you sure you didn't hear wrong about the one CNA. One RN/LPN per 24 reidents is fine. One CNA per 24 residents is impossible! Unless their census is really really low? I'd frankly be nervous...
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    What have I gotten myself into.....?

    BrandonLPN replied to lgood905's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just stick it out, you'll find your flow. Also, keep in mind what works for other nurses won't necessarily work for you. My preceptor really pushed the "worksheet" with every pt's room number, diet,...
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    My email filter is a genius!

    BrandonLPN replied to PennyWise's topic in General Nursing

    It makes you wonder who is gullible enough to fall for this
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    JCAHO, how you annoy me.

    BrandonLPN replied to brainkandy87's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What I wonder is how these crooks sleep at night. They serve no real function other than to "bless" the hospital with their approval. And of course this "approval" costs $$$. And is conditional on...
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    Nursing Diagnoses...

    BrandonLPN replied to turnforthenurse's topic in General Nursing

    But why do we really need nursing dx?? I read your sources there and I still don't understand the point. I do understand the difference between medicine and nursing. Medicine has to do with the...
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    New Nurse/Old Attitude

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

    So, it's your understanding that it's your role as a new grad to come in and "fix" everything we "old" ( I'm 29) nurses are doing wrong? Don't you see this is exactly what drives us crazy?? I get so...
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    Am I asking for too much

    BrandonLPN replied to mvm2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Why on earth would you think it's "unsafe"? Your big issues are that a CNA spilled some juice and then forgot about it, and that it took them a little over 24 hours to cater to your request and get...
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    Will an internship be helpful?

    BrandonLPN replied to BloomNurseRN's topic in General Students

    My advice would be to keep in mind that there are other places be sided the hospital for a nurse to work. Why on earth do 90% of nursing students want to work in their local hospitals? Look around...
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    When will people learn NOT to say the "Q" word...

    BrandonLPN replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The last time I remarked it was a "quiet" night, the CNA promptly came to inform me the lady in room 269 was naked and pooping in the wastebasket of the guy in room