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  1. Tired of bedside nursing

    bigjay replied to youngebloodrn's topic in Men in Nursing

    I worked bedside on an oncolgy/g-med floor for twelve years and didn't realize how tired I was of it until I recently transferred to ER. ER is still technically "bedside" but there's such a variety...

  2. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

    bigjay replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    This is how we did it at one facility I was at as a student. The upside is that you're minimizing the amount injected at each site. The downside is the potential for error if someone is not familiar...

  3. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

    bigjay replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    You have to flush if the port tubing is primed with anything besides the drug you are giving. Otherwise as you said you are not actually giving the drug, simply whatever is in the tubing at the time....

  4. Female nurses have more advantage over male nurses?

    bigjay replied to u2me's topic in Men in Nursing

    I find that being a male nurse you stick out more. People are more likely to remember you and notice you. This can be a positive or a negative depending on the perception. Generally for me I think...

  5. Female nurses have more advantage over male nurses?

    bigjay replied to u2me's topic in Men in Nursing

    Please provide this information since the above above is an incredibly offensive

  6. Contracting Respiratory MRSA After Death?????????

    bigjay replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    Very minimal transmission risk since you cleaned his face before hand. MRSA will only colonize in moist environments (rectum, nares, lungs, etc) or the bloodstream. His face (the surface she touched)...

  7. Concerns About Relationships In/After Nursing School

    bigjay replied to dfj22's topic in Men in Nursing

    Nursing school definately gives you a pretty wide dating pool if you want to go there. I did and it never became an issue with my classmates. I did tend to date either above or below my year which...

  8. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    bigjay replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think you have to take this type of behaviour on a case by case basis. One thing I always look at it why the patient is in hospital and what their future expectations are. If they're going to be...

  9. Sex Discrimination or not?

    bigjay replied to VAC's topic in General Nursing

    Why would the OP want to go into L+D/OB? Probably for the same reasons any female would, an interest that area of nursing. One's genitalia generally don't determine what field of nursing we're...

  10. It's 4am, do you know where your patient is?

    bigjay replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Had a gentleman who at 0100 pulled out his pain pump, IV from his port-a-cath, NG tube and foley. Refused to have any put back in, called the doc, doc said it was okay and to leave him until the...

  11. Why So Many Unhealthy Nurses?

    bigjay replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    I think there's a lot of factors leading to an unhealthy lifestyle in nurses. I also think that as a general population in North America we tend to have an unhealthy lifestyle so that doesn't make...

  12. My Poor Hands have been Washed Raw

    bigjay replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Try using cold water for your handwashing. That made a big difference for me, especially since as a male I generally don't use lotion on my

  13. methadone therapy for cancer pain?

    bigjay replied to ceelynncee's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    This may be a bit late since your brother is likely recieving his treatment now and hopefully is doing well. I work on an oncology inpatient floor and our palliative docs use methadone very...

  14. What do you love about working in oncology?

    bigjay replied to PatricksRNMommy's topic in Oncology

    I work on an onc/g-med floor and have been here for seven years. I love working in oncology. Cancer is a disease that is debilitating to body, mind and spirit. Working with people who have it is...

  15. Just accepted, what to expect being a guy?

    bigjay replied to deftonez188's topic in Men in Nursing

    Hitting the gym is good advice for ALL nurses, not just men. So many of my co-workers have back and shoulder problems (I work on an inpatient ONC/GMED floor so there's lots of lifting and pulling) but...

  16. Pain Scores Effective or not

    bigjay replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    As a student I was a huge proponent of the pain scale. Now as an RN I don't really find it useful at all. I work in oncology and we deal with a lot of pain issue. Numerical scales are somewhat...

  17. Docs yelling at nurses....

    bigjay replied to ClassQ1's topic in Men in Nursing

    I've never had a problem with a doc yelling at me in person. Over the phone once but that was my own fault. I was new and ended up calling him three times about a coumadin order for a pt he was...

  18. Get to Work On Time.

    bigjay replied to banditrn's topic in General Nursing

    Do you put in for OT when your co-workers are late? That would get your supervisor's attention and probably get action on the

  19. Losing patients - does it get easier?

    bigjay replied to future L&Dnurse's topic in Oncology

    I've worked in oncology and palliative care for almost ten years now and it does get easier. You gradually learn to accept that death is simply a part of life and is often an end to pain and...

  20. pros and cons of being a weekender?

    bigjay replied to Bibagirl's topic in General Nursing

    I work a modified full-time line where I do 60 hours per pay period and get paid for 80. I give up my shift premiums and my sick time is calculated differently, using my banked stats rather than the...

  21. vanc=CDiff?

    bigjay replied to MrsWampthang's topic in General Nursing

    C-diff is pretty much endemic is hospitals. Anti-biotic therapy tends to decimate the body's normal flora which leaves it open to invasion by opportunistic organisms like C-diff. Without doing a lit...

  22. Are there any dancing nurses out there?

    bigjay replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    My wife and I have been doing latin and ballroom dance for a year or so now. We got into it through a friend of ours who we met through our baby group who is a dance teacher. We do waltz, tango,...

  23. Have you performed CPR?

    bigjay replied to TemperStripe's topic in General Nursing

    I've been at about a half-dozen codes in the nine years I've worked at my hospital. Four of those years were in palliative care so no codes there. I work on an oncology/G-med floor now. We usually get...

  24. So..You're going to be a MALE nurse?

    bigjay replied to mingez's topic in Men in Nursing

    I usually respond with "Last time I checked" while glancing down at my crotch

  25. The Lifting Debate

    bigjay replied to bigjay's topic in Men in Nursing

    I really think this is excellent advice for ALL nurses who do frontline patient care, male and female. In my experience very few of my colleagues do much in the way of regular excercise, much less...