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  1. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    sweetcheekers replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I will definitely let you know. Thanks for your interest. It has been so difficult to go from having the camraderie and support of fellow students for two years to nothing. I went from being...

  2. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    sweetcheekers replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thank you. I actually did print a professional looking resume on linen paper with a cover letter and references the other day and thought I might just hand deliver it. (The original was an online...

  3. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    sweetcheekers replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I could have sworn I'd heard there is a nursing shortage! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I'd heard that more than once. I just finished nursing school and applied for four positions at my...

  4. bed baths

    sweetcheekers replied to RnAngl's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a LPN and am currently pursuing my RN. The other day I had a patient in my clinical that was 94 years old. As students we are required to see to the hygiene of our patients every day. I gave this...

  5. Had a Pt this week who routinely takes 8000mg of Tylenol a day.

    sweetcheekers posted a topic in General Nursing

    When I informed her docter of this practice he ordered liver function tests. Would you believe that they came back normal? I could not believe it!!! How in the $%#* is that

  6. Had a Pt this week who routinely takes 8000mg of Tylenol a day.

    sweetcheekers replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, she only weighed 48 kg and had been doing this for months if not years. She said she takes 2 500mg caplets at a time every few hours. I said, "Tell me how many times in a 24 hour period do...

  7. Just Curious........

    sweetcheekers replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see, clerk at 2 clothing stores when I was a teen, clerk at drug store, telemarketer, insurance agent for Life, Accident, and Health insurance, SAHM, personal care assistant at geriatric...

  8. Had a Pt this week who routinely takes 8000mg of Tylenol a day.

    sweetcheekers replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    All I can say is WOW! Unbelieveable. It goes to show how uninformed people can be. I am as guilty as any of minimizing the potential harm of OTC meds. Not anymore. (Amazing how nursing school...

  9. Had a Pt this week who routinely takes 8000mg of Tylenol a day.

    sweetcheekers replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what his plan was. He didn't put her on the Tylenol in the first place. She was self medicating for Fibromyalgia. I told her that she needed to speak with her doctor about other...

  10. Sad story 480-pound woman dies after six years on couch

    sweetcheekers replied to dietersmanifesto's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not trying to attack any posters for "judging". It is only natural to feel some of the things posted here initially. I felt some of them myself before thinking about the situation and reminding...

  11. Sad story 480-pound woman dies after six years on couch

    sweetcheekers replied to dietersmanifesto's topic in General Nursing

    One thing we all need to keep in mind is that human beings are very diverse. Not everyone would respond to this situation in the manner that seems obvious to us. I agree that the people involved in...

  12. Pda Software

    sweetcheekers replied to murmur's topic in Emergency

    My understanding is that you download it once during the period that you subscribe for (either 6 or 12 months) and that there is a cradle that connects to your home computer that you place it in when...

  13. arrogant nurses

    sweetcheekers replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Okay, I "assist them to ambulate to the restroom to void or defacate". Better? Anyway, while they are my patients, they ARE my babies. I treat them with the same care and attention that I would a...

  14. arrogant nurses

    sweetcheekers replied to Purple Princess's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    First, sorry this is going to be long. I'm a nursing student working towards my RN. (Finished my LPN last spring.) I spent a day last week as an aide doing nothing but baths and bedding all day...

  15. When the nurse has to leave because of an emergency

    sweetcheekers replied to LPNtoBSNstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting topic, had never thought of this. I've never had an experience with this so I don't know what to expect, but I can tell you that my children would never wait for me in an emergency so I...

  16. I need a nurses opinion

    sweetcheekers replied to shllby1's topic in General Nursing

    In my area which is a community of 10,000, I will be starting at $17.40 an hour when I get my RN license. That is slightly above average for the surrounding communities. (It is at a hospital, and...

  17. Pda Software

    sweetcheekers replied to murmur's topic in Emergency

    http://www.pepid.com/products/rn/default.asp?product=RN&source=overture

  18. Professionalism and Nurses

    sweetcheekers replied to Dixiedi's topic in General Nursing

    I totally understand that you were "rubbed the wrong way" by the nurse referring to your dad so casually, but I also agree that she probably was just being friendly or personable. She sounds "spunky"...

  19. Where Do I Draw The Line Between Right And Wrong?

    sweetcheekers replied to ZinnianWolf's topic in General Nursing

    There is right and there is wrong. Maybe sometimes the line is foggy. Be thankful this isn't one of them. A great nurse does what is right regardless of who may have their toes stepped on. That IS...

  20. Nurses grossed out by spit/mucus

    sweetcheekers replied to rnmi2004's topic in General Nursing

    This must be the common thread among most nurses. When I began nursing school I felt the same way and thought I was odd until I asked my instructors about it. 5 out of 6 said the mucous was their...

  21. What was your secret weapon for surviving nursing school??

    sweetcheekers replied to michelle_s_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think the person that said "how bad do you want it" summed it up. Nursing school is kind of like marriage. It is up to you wether it works or not. (Luckily with nursing school, though, its up to...

  22. Please clarify degree types!

    sweetcheekers replied to trees's topic in General Nursing

    I just received my LPN diploma from our local community college nursing program.:balloons: (It is a two year program to attain RN). When I am finished this spring I will receive my ADN (Associates...