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    What does an order of "Q2D" mean to you?

    BrandonLPN replied to Manofstone's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I don't like electronic charting because I can't type that little 'c' with the line over it. I don't feel like a real nurse if I can't use all my little nurse-y shorthand
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    Respect from patients as a Registered Nurse?

    BrandonLPN replied to tiamaria123's topic in General Nursing

    All these employers who apparently disparage their nursing staff because they don't rack up the billable charges would do well to remember that the *entire* reason anybody, anywhere, is admitted to an...
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    Unusual treatments

    BrandonLPN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I hope she had a home remedy for cat scratches as
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    I'm a sexless nurse

    BrandonLPN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    If a female patient doesn't want a male nurse catching them, it's kind of out of your hands cause that is her right as a patient. A male nurse who doesn't want to cath females is an entirely different...
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    BrandonLPN replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this program still
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    GoFundMe Thoughts?

    BrandonLPN replied to singwithme123's topic in General Nursing

    :shrug: Nobody's forcing anybody to do anything. Nobody's stealing. I don't see what all the moral fuss is about. If someone is charismatic or persuasive enough to convince complete strangers to...
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    This week, I learned..... (6/6/15)

    BrandonLPN replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I've learned things in the various "nursing and sex workers" threads that I'll never be able to un-learn, try as I
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    Why do nurses seem to have a bad reputation?

    BrandonLPN replied to unbrokenx3's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse romance was actually a popular Harlequin
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    Paying jobs in Latin America?

    BrandonLPN replied to kep308's topic in General Nursing

    Also, "Latin America" is a pretty broad descriptor. Working/economic conditions in Chile or Argentina are very different from those in Guatemala or
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    People really need to stop coming into nursing

    BrandonLPN replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in General Nursing

    The allegations against Ms Trujillo are public record. She allegedly "educated" a patient with an upcoming liver transplant by going into the room at 2am-ish while the patient was groggy from...
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    Procedure on this? Nurse and her abuser

    BrandonLPN replied to CMarieRN87's topic in General Nursing

    Im not sure I agree with the idea that you should uproot your life and move to avoid any potential contact with this man. Like the Commuter said, you do not want to allow him to affect your life any...
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    You will all probably hate me for this

    BrandonLPN replied to Lulu Belle's topic in General Nursing

    The vast majority of people here who invoke the "endlessly compassionate", "it's a calling", yadda yadda yadda, etc. stereotypes are either nursing students or else very recently licensed. I don't see...
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    Article: Paramedics equal to RNs

    BrandonLPN replied to SummitRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have no experience in the ER, but I'm puzzled as to what exactly a paramedic performing to the full extent of his scope in that setting would entail. Sounds to me like a tech who can perform a wider...
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    You will all probably hate me for this

    BrandonLPN replied to Lulu Belle's topic in General Nursing

    I can't imagine it would come as any great shock to patients that nurses complain about them in private, or that some nurses secretly are contemptuous of certain patient populations. They know that...
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

    BrandonLPN replied to WinterLilac's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have the highest of opinions of herbalists....but, honestly, I don't think asking you if you've had blood work done to check Thyroid levels to be a particularly "quacky" thing to say. Rude,...
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    Article: Paramedics equal to RNs

    BrandonLPN replied to SummitRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    There is actually very little overlap between the pre-hospital setting and the hospital ER setting. And almost none between the pre-hospital setting and the inpatient hospital setting. I don't think...
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    bon

    BrandonLPN replied to butterfly1983's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    pharmacology
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    IS THIS TRUE???

    BrandonLPN replied to nurse2211's topic in General Nursing

    True, but I guess our definitions of what's modest or immodest must differ. Shorts and tanks/sports bras, I don't find that immodest or awkward. And I don't see why turning a classmate in bed, or...
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    Shaking hands

    BrandonLPN replied to court811's topic in General Nursing

    No one will expect an extern to be good at venipuncture. Many, many experienced RNs are not so great at starting IVs. I'm sure many of the nurses on the floor you'll be on are not so great at it. Its...
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    IS THIS TRUE???

    BrandonLPN replied to nurse2211's topic in General Nursing

    Some of us male students took our shirts off for the EKG lesson. And on sponge bath day we were told to wear shorts and tank tops (which I guess could be considered "undergarments"). We touched each...
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    Weird Job Shadowing Experience

    BrandonLPN replied to SookieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    .... I can't imagine a hospital just allowing an interviewee nurse who showed up to shadow to work the floor 'cause they're short staffed. Not in 2015. At what juncture in the hiring process were you...
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    You will all probably hate me for this

    BrandonLPN replied to Lulu Belle's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that's
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    You will all probably hate me for this

    BrandonLPN replied to Lulu Belle's topic in General Nursing

    Kudos if you're being ironic
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    You will all probably hate me for this

    BrandonLPN replied to Lulu Belle's topic in General Nursing

    Careful..... naughty threads have been disappearing
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    Shift change rant

    BrandonLPN replied to Nurse Molly's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, but you can catch more flies with honey then with vinegar. You still have to work with these people, after