Scarlette Wings

Scarlette Wings

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  1. Don't People Have Bills To Pay?

    I read an article on medscape that discusses some of our real generational differences. I think it would fit in well with this discussion. We are all different. Our age, experience, and upbringing do...
  2. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    To me Unions really are just another task master and very controlling. We should be able to advocate for ourselves. Another thought is that nurses and staff would not only have patient rooms to...
  3. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    OMG. That is
  4. Certification in Infection Control (CIC) Examination

    Unless I have mis-read the criteria for taking the exam, I believe that 6 months of experience in the position is a
  5. Should I look for other jobs besides Nursing?

    GrnTea wrote: "Your mother is a mean and vindictive, perhaps damaged, person who doesn't care what her daughter is or does or feels so long as she can make herself feel better by making you feel bad....
  6. Should I look for other jobs besides Nursing?

    First off I would think that the mother you have described is a horrible mother and not a very compassionate or supportive "nurse" either. My mother was mentally ill, had years of ECT and depressive...
  7. Rhabdomyolysis

    With all due repect we all have to research and look up information throughout our life...so let me google that for you. :) Let me google that for
  8. Cry for help: I don't think I can do this.

    Sounds like a complete case of total burnout. Burnout is the natural result of being totally overwhelmed by school, sick of studying, striving to live up to everyone expectations including your own...
  9. Husband and wife working together

    It is often considered nepotism and not a good idea. If a facility is very large and the spouses can work on different floors or shifts, etc then it is not so bad. That said, our facility has an RN in...
  10. Best Hallucinations Thread

    I had a little old lady seeing spiders crawling all over her wall.This was back in the day (early 80's) when you "absolutely had to" reorient confused little patients and NEVER ever ever act like...
  11. Last edit by nhnursie on Dec 12, '12 : Reason: posted before finished typing That is the cutest and funniest reason (guilty myself) for having to edit. Loved
  12. Why is it always "Fire the nurse"

    In almost 30 years of nursing I have rarely seen a true case of "fire the nurse first" over a patient complaint unless there was an extreme error or managers were already looking for an excuse to fire...
  13. Throwing in the towel...

    If you are willing to work anywhere until you find a job you really want your chances are great. Actually they are great most everywhere for experienced nurses that are highly flexible. I see you...
  14. Nursing the old fashioned way

    hi all, i just read a thread asking about older nursing interventions and it made me think of the older techniques that we really did use before so many modern meds and procedures. for a lower gi...
  15. If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    LOL, I have to say that this is your fantasy and you can have it any way you want it. I love to write (but I am horrible at spelling) and I love to draw so I had thought that I would have gone into...
  16. Telemedicine: How will Telecommunications affect Nurses?

    :loveya:
  17. Leave nursing job to be stay-at-home mom?

    i admire and support anyone who is able to stay home and raise their own children. there is no greater gift than the gift of time and presence. i would suggest if you can manage to work at least a few...
  18. getting older has given me the chance to branch out into areas of nursing that i never thought of before (ie: discharge planning, employee health, occupational nursing, school nursing,...
  19. Code Blue Announcement

    paging may be part of the change that happens as technology advances. at one time no one had cell phones or pagers. (at one time the idea of skype could only exist as a sci-fyi thriller for the...
  20. Please, please, please remember the 5 rights!

    GrnTea, I realize that I could have looked up the medication and when I worked the floors and ICU I kept a drug handbook and the Merck manual on my cart. always. They were my Bible and the 10...
  21. Please, please, please remember the 5 rights!

    Thank you Ashley. I never worked with babies or peds and I have been out of ICU and floor work for about 5 years now. I appreciate your answer and also appreciate that you didn't think I was stupid....
  22. Completely confused about this Foley Catheter issue...

    gross. like could he not just let the poor woman be sick and go without! he was a
  23. New nurse still on orientation and first med error?

    Esme I always enjoy your answers. They are solid, well grounded, and offer solutions as well as the reason. It is so easy to rationalize and push the issue under the table, specially if that one...
  24. You and me both. It was nerve wracking at the recent APIC meeting they started to educate on all the steps and the legal methods of handling just such
  25. OMG, how sad...we are still fighting about the same patient/nurse ratios and patient safety issues as 30 years