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    Is this Patient Abandonment?

    BrandonLPN replied to cahshaw's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Since you are a licensed nurse and accepted report and counted narcotics, I would imagine the BON (or whoever) would regard this as a scenario where one nurse handed off a patient assingment to...
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    ADN Nurses Being Forced to go Back to School?

    BrandonLPN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think its about control, in the case of the article of the OP, I think its about taking advantage of a weak economy and bullying employees who don't have a lot of options in said economy. (And...
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    ADN Nurses Being Forced to go Back to School?

    BrandonLPN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I think people who say physicians disrespect ADN prepared nurses are projecting their own insecurities onto other people. I suspect the vast majority couldn't care less. When one argues for...
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    ADN Nurses Being Forced to go Back to School?

    BrandonLPN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    A far wiser course of action would be to simply grandfather in all current RNs and make a BSN a requirement for future
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    what did you have a previous degree in before you went into nursing?

    BrandonLPN replied to RNtobe23's topic in General Nursing

    How would you be paying your bills now while you try to break back into music if not for nursing? Maybe nursing isn't for you, but having a degree in *something* practical as a backup was good
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    How does your facility prevent falls?

    BrandonLPN replied to GoldiesMom's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yellow gowns? That seems silly. We just sew big scarlet 'F's on all their
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    Walkie Talkie

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

    Yep, and I've also used the term "feeder" as shorthand in report in reference to residents who need to be fed. I suppose whover got the vapors over "walkie talkie" wouldn't like this one
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    worry.. how to write a proper post mortum note.

    BrandonLPN replied to lisawea's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Keep it short and sweet. called into room by CNA at 0315. Resident found to be without pulse or respirations. Notified on-call physician, obtained order authorizing release of body. Notified Mary...
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    Patient: It's an Adjective as Well as a Noun

    BrandonLPN replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I love that you said that to him. I also love that it totally went over his
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    Nurses with Medical Marijuana Cards.

    BrandonLPN replied to fltopp1's topic in General Nursing

    Other new topics ready for our consideration: Are LPNs being phased out? Are tattoos unprofessional? Do nurses eat their
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    What is the meaning of the "lived experience"?

    BrandonLPN replied to Littlepeanurse's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like an annoyingly redundant buzz-term to me. "Lived" as opposed to what.... fake experience? Imaginary experience? Experience by proxy? By definition, isnt all experience
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    Husband not supportive of me going to school

    BrandonLPN replied to sweetpea2014's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Nursing is many wonderful things, but being conducive to a family with small children isn't really one of them. As a new grad you will be working evening and night shifts and weekends and holidays and...
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    RN working as CNA under an LPN?

    BrandonLPN replied to RNlove17's topic in General Nursing

    Feh. The "Green House" sounds exactly like the "Eden Project" from a few years ago. The upshot seems to be that residents would benefit from a more home-like environment where they have private rooms...
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    Nasty nurses II

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

    Natural selection results in crusty old bats evolving with that foul taste precisely in order to discourage predetors. That and their prepetual scowl-face. Young nurses with their yummy-ness and rosy,...
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    Life is beautiful if one has his/her life centered on God

    BrandonLPN replied to guyna's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I think it's a kind of security based on surrender. It reminds me of the sort of double-edged saftey/oppression that cloistered Muslim women
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    Nasty nurses II

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

    I don't know "crusty old bats", sounds like they might not be hygienically correct as well as being the other kind of
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    TEACHERS>>>UMPH>>I"M DONE

    BrandonLPN replied to mycsm's topic in School

    Yeah, asking you to sew his pants takes a nerve. But I don't get what the big deal is about him taking some Q-tips..... Cleaning his ears out in front of you and the student is kind of creepy, but why...
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    How to get a job working with babies

    BrandonLPN replied to NeoNatMom's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Be careful buying into schools' claims of "100% employment rate". Sure they're employed, but employed doing what? Not working in L&D and the ICU as new grad ADNs, I can assure you. How many of...
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    an oldie but goodie

    BrandonLPN replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    Rotary phones VHS black and white
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    Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'll agree there clearly a double standard when it comes to women vs men when it comes to positions of authority in the workplace. But it's hardly unique to nursing. Traits that would be described as...
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    Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Free tuition and free tutoring is certainly generous, and kudos to hospitals that offer such programs. But did it ever occur to you that those LPNs simply did not want to go back to school, free or...
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    Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As a early-30-something person, I have no actual, real-life memory of the traditional, cap-wearing, "matronly" nurse outside of old TV shows. Most people my age and younger have never had that...
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    Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Re: the whole "nurses don't get respect because we're viewed as wage earning laborers vs salary earning professionals" argument...... it's woth pointing out that in spite of this supposed "working...
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    Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As for the whole critical thinking vs task-oriented debate.... Bedsdide nursing will always have a "tasky" componet in the sense that the nurse will spend most of his time performing tasks such as...
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    Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to fakenurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Ok, I'm sorry but anyone who's never worked a day as a nurse should never be in a position to make policy changes or changes to practice or whatever. They can't improve the field until they have some...