TDub

TDub MSN, EdD

OB, critical care, hospice, farm/industr

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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    TDub replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I'm working hospice now and I have seen that too! It really shakes you up, doesn't it? Edit: I replied to the person who described a "glow" on the face of a pt that died; a minister. Sorry for...

  2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    TDub replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen this as a hospice nurse. It's uncanny in the original sense of the word. I also had a nun at the sisterhouse look THROUGH me, get really excited, say "Oh, it's YOU!" and then lie back to...

  3. How to drop subtle hints with my nursing students about faith.

    TDub replied to HappyWife77's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Do not not not do it. I am a Christian and never say anything about unless I am asked directly or my student says something directly and privately. Not everyone is a Christian and many people feel any...

  4. Can Male RNs get jobs in Maternity Nursing?

    TDub replied to Samian Q's topic in Male Nursing Students

    One caveat: If you want to be an MSN in Maternal/child health, you had better know your Pathophys backwards and forwards. OB conditions can mask serious diseases you will need to be able to catch....

  5. CNS as Educators

    TDub replied to ChelleChelle's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Well now that I've graduated, I find teaching jobs that are FT/pay anywhere near a living wage are few and far between. I'm looking to network and have given up on getting a decent job in academia....

  6. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    TDub replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Peed on by a dead man... hmmm, I'd say you are in the front runners for

  7. I hope I don't offend anyone, but....

    TDub replied to Maevish's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My mother said "Boliver Shagnasty" or if a person was really big, "Man Mountain

  8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    TDub replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    We have to explain pelvic rest means "nothing in there, nothing ON there and especially no orgasms' No orgasms for the threat of pre-term

  9. What is your personal nursing mission statement?

    TDub replied to loveshospital's topic in General Nursing

    To find Christ in every person I

  10. Handling inappropriate student requests

    TDub replied to AOx1's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Man, I shoulda proofed that last post-sorry for the spelling

  11. Handling inappropriate student requests

    TDub replied to AOx1's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I had probelems with students doing inappropriate things and then saying "I never read/heard/knew that." I had a sheet made up with important data, all the things lk washington mentioned and had them...

  12. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    TDub replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    I would have really wanted to yell, "Oh my gosh, a snake!" and proceed to whack the bejebus out of

  13. My lie to patient's mom

    TDub replied to hiddencatRN's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly-better 'n her,

  14. From the Other Side of the Bed Rails - When the Nurse Becomes the Patient

    TDub replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    These stories have made me feel less alone and a little braver... I am currently waiting for results on a sinus bx. I cracked a tooth; when it was pulled the dentist discovered a growth on the root...

  15. The Patient I Failed

    TDub replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And this is why I love being a hospice nurse. Truly a

  16. Finding preceptor for CNS program

    TDub replied to hisblueskies's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    On that note, anyone know anything about graduating with an MSN, (but not a CNS) and where to go to complete CNS

  17. CNS as Educators

    TDub replied to ChelleChelle's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    I agree going for the CNS with emphasis in education is the wisest choice. I am finishing a master's in nursing education and to my horror found halfway through a mere nurse educator is not considered...

  18. Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    TDub replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    Some of the best advice I got in nursing school was "You don't have to like all your patients." I was so grateful I could have kissed that professor! You can care deeply about doing a good job, being...

  19. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    TDub replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    Mission Impossible during codes...that's a riot! There's one I sing all the time by Rufus Wainwright: My phone's on vibrate for you God knows what all these new drugs do I guess to have no more fears...

  20. Will you expereinced help Me!?!

    TDub replied to Renee4christ's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Pace yourself. I would seriously urge you to have much more than a year of nursing before you go back to get a master's. You need 5 years at least in different paths, investigating different areas and...

  21. When will they change the name???

    TDub replied to hand2cut's topic in Men in Nursing

    Wow, I like that! I think of "nurse" more as lying in the frame of "nurturer" or "one who intervenes on your behalf" the same as counselor, gardener, coach, soldier, marshall or leader. None of those...

  22. should i give up online MSN?

    TDub replied to nurseinspire's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm in an online program and I can tell you right now it is a ton of homework and reading. Unless you go without sleep I don't see how you could do all the reading properly and get the assignments in...

  23. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    TDub replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have the feeling if bird flu ever really got going it wouldn't be likr the Epidemic of 1918. It would be more like the Black Death in the 1300's. I think things would

  24. Pushing drugs for the Man bother anyone?

    TDub replied to somebody's topic in General Nursing

    After this, I'll quit posting... Herein lies the rub. It worked for somebody. (Did you pick that name on purpose?) BUT just because it worked for somebody doesn't mean it will work for everyone else....

  25. Pushing drugs for the Man bother anyone?

    TDub replied to somebody's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 9 years younger than you and I wanted to go to Woodstock so badly! I was a little wanna-be hippie in the fourth