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    Evolution and Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    The creationist group tend to drastically misinterpret the scientific admission that the existence (or non-existence) of God is unverifiable either way. Just as they tend to misinterpret the word...
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    if you hate nursing, what would you rather do instead?

    BrandonLPN replied to ceccia's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, right. No way am I going to cancel my vacation and airline tickets for a single shift plopped in the middle of my vacation. Pretty sure my cell phone works in Florida. Can call in sick just as...
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    LPNs can't chart suicidal threats and they can't digitally stimulate rectums?!

    BrandonLPN replied to Nola009's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Legally, you can do both as a LPN. Your facility's policy might be another matter. I have manually removed feces from rectums more times than I care to think about. Working with paraplegic pts who...
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    are mandatory scrub color-coding in hospitals the wave of the future?

    BrandonLPN replied to kelligracie's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Oh, okay. gotcha. I think the fact that any studies at all were done re: color of scrubs is evidence of time and money being
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    are mandatory scrub color-coding in hospitals the wave of the future?

    BrandonLPN replied to kelligracie's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I got the impression you were saying the reason the VA doesn't have color-coded scrubs is because they aren't always up to date on
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    Today a patient asked, "Do you know Jesus?"

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

    Yes, 'rictus' seems like a word tha could actually prove useful in charting. Sounds better than trying to phyically describe it. I just started using 'somnolent', which sounds so much better than...
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    are mandatory scrub color-coding in hospitals the wave of the future?

    BrandonLPN replied to kelligracie's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Calling color-coded scrubs an example of "evidence based practice" is taking the whole EBP thing a bit too
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    Do you tell?

    BrandonLPN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's more fun not to tell them until just before you're
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    Yet another interruption on nights

    BrandonLPN replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    But the floor nurses are already documenting their assessment of their patients' central lines every shift. Why on earth can't the data just be collected from the charted assessments? Why add an extra...
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    Shocked by facial piercings at work

    BrandonLPN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I got nothing against tattoos or piercings, but some people seem blissfully ignorant of the irony of their logic that making the self look like a member of a sub-culture somehow makes them an...
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    Is the RN--->BSN push a clever way to get older nurses out of the way

    BrandonLPN replied to Nola009's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Sooo...you're saying that all nurses who choose to go to ADN programs are self-centered individuals who don't care as much about the profession or about their patients as you do. I see. Gotcha. I'm...
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    What game show describes your workplace?

    BrandonLPN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? ....some of my less intelligent
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    What game show describes your workplace?

    BrandonLPN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    The Price is Right.... they pay me enough to
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    Dizzy during circumcision

    BrandonLPN replied to RavensNation's topic in General Students

    I could happily go through 4 years and beyond of nursing school without ever seeing a circumcision. Or a C-section. Or an I and D. Or any surgical procedure, really. Poop and vomit and wounds and dead...
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    Transcribing Weird Doctor Orders?

    BrandonLPN replied to RhetoricalQuestion's topic in General Nursing

    That's an absurdly complicated medication order. I would refuse to note it as is, and demand the doctor clarify and simplify it. It would make more sense to just order the OTC scheduled TID along with...
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    Industrial Piercing

    BrandonLPN replied to jessadarling14's topic in General Nursing

    Even if your future employer allows the industrial piercing, its not advisable to wear while working as a nurse. As others have said its basically a handlebar for ear-ripping. I know, you think...
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    Where are all the nurses?

    BrandonLPN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The local nursing homes in my area came to our school and passed out business cards to the students. Of course, hiring a slew of new grads all at once is a good way to wind up with dead residents....
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    Today a patient asked, "Do you know Jesus?"

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

    I would advise not even broaching the subject unless he does
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    Things you tell newbies

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

    In any other
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    Here we go again

    BrandonLPN replied to AngiereeRN's topic in Travel

    This makes me wonder if LTAC should be called something else. Continual Acute Care? Extended Critical
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    Today a patient asked, "Do you know Jesus?"

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

    You see, there are these things called
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    Today a patient asked, "Do you know Jesus?"

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

    Possible replies: "No, do you?" "Yes, He's standing right there" "No, but I do know Bast, the Egyptian cat-goddess."
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    Evolution and Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Okay, so I am now officially obsessed with the human void that is Sherri Shepard, and I'm reading up on her. Here's a quote from the comment section of her website where one of her Christian...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    But if you listen 'til the end of the clip, she did say she would take her son to the library to see if the world is really round.... Seriously.... What sort of environment did that woman grow up in...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Really, its kinda cruel that they let Sherri Shephard put herself on The View to embarrass herself. Aren't there laws against exploiting the mentally retarded? It's not even an ignorance or uninformed...