nursemike ASN, RN

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    Night shift nurses

    nursemike replied to CABG patch kid's topic in General Nursing

    I work two twelves on the weekend and one eight during the week--usually Friday, but Thurs next week, and it can be any night. I usually try to get just a few hours of sleep Mon morning, then go to...
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    PANICKED! Missed first day of ORIENTATION, is it all over???

    nursemike replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have enough insight to tell you how to live your life. In fact, living mine is pretty much a full-time job. Still, I don't see that trying to retain an employee is such bad business....
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    attitudes of male and female patients towards male nursing students

    nursemike replied to Jhanez_k2p's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm sorry you've had a traumatic past. Partly on these boards, and partly in real life, I've learned over the past few years how not uncommon that is. It saddens and perplexes me to realize that...
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    Nurses STOP telling me to be a RN ! PLEASE

    nursemike replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I've been guilty of encouraging one of the LPNs I work with to pursue her RN, although I'm sure I was never nasty about it. It's not an option she can manage, now, but I hope she'll have the...
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    Title confusion

    nursemike replied to transnrs's topic in General Nursing

    LOL!Of course, you realize that title can only be appropriately applied if, in fact, you have a farm. But I don't know that it matters how large a farm. I suppose you could plant a tomato in the...
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    want to be a nurse but afraid of mechanical abilities

    nursemike replied to Gentle Giant's topic in Men in Nursing

    Another concern I occassionally hear is, "I'd like to be a nurse, but I'm not very good at math..." When I was a kid, my Dad asked me a riddle: If a fish-and-a-half costs a dollar-and-a-half, how...
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    Nasal cannula

    nursemike replied to believing's topic in General Nursing

    Learned something while my Dad was in the hospital. If pt has a thick moustache, putting the cannula in backwards is more comfortable. (So it curves away from the face, rather than
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    One of these questions and answers make no sense whatsoever

    nursemike replied to Luv2care0907's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I also saw 1.) as the only correct answer. To me. I think it helps to seperate the feeling of anger from what one does with it. Anger itself is not negative or irrational. In some circumstances, it...
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    I'm afraid for my pt. and afraid to go to work.

    nursemike replied to Peggy4's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not really disagreeing, either, but I have to observe that "habitual drug use," is also a pretty big assumption. The OP originally stated "occassional" marijuana use, though her subsequent posts...
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    Gastric Banding to treat Type II Diabetes

    nursemike replied to twistedpupchaser's topic in General Nursing

    I was reading an article about this just the other day--sorry, I don't recall the source--and it claimed around 70% success for both lap-band and bypass, and seemed to be independant of weight loss....
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    I'm afraid for my pt. and afraid to go to work.

    nursemike replied to Peggy4's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Vera that much of what is described may be a matter of ineffective coping with grief and/or stress, but I also concur that notification to the proper authorities of abuse/neglect is...
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    Need Honest Opinion -- Would You Recommend Nursing?

    nursemike replied to djc1981's topic in General Nursing

    When I was getting ready to start nursing school, several of the nurses I worked with advised me to go into "computers" instead. This was at a time when outsourcing was still a pretty new idea, at...
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    Need Honest Opinion -- Would You Recommend Nursing?

    nursemike replied to djc1981's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I don't see 50 pts. Usually 5-6. Maybe ten, if I split my shift between two assignments. And most mornings I go home feeling glad that shift's over, looking forward to my next days off....
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    I am going to get some clinical hours!

    nursemike replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good
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    Is it okay to dress like a "nurse"?

    nursemike replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    We guys are having some fun with this thread, but I have to say, a crisp, white dress does look very nurselike and
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    Is it okay to dress like a "nurse"?

    nursemike replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

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    Is it okay to dress like a "nurse"?

    nursemike replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I've never felt sufficiently motivated to express my Scottish heritage, but we had a night on our unit when everyone was encouraged to wear all white. It was part of a tribute to a couple of...
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    If you breastpumped at work, were your coworkers supportive?

    nursemike replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    I'll admit, I've seen people go overboard with the smoke breaks. I've seen a few use pregnancy as an excuse not to do anything. I don't think my 2-3 cigs a night is excessive. I would rather take...
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    If you breastpumped at work, were your coworkers supportive?

    nursemike replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    Over the years, a number of married (male) friends have informed me that human milk doesn't taste especially good. I suppose we're more conditioned to cow's milk. None, however, seem to have...
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    If you breastpumped at work, were your coworkers supportive?

    nursemike replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    Everybody gets breaks. Some choose not to take them. I usually don't take all of the 15 minute Q4H breaks the law and my hospital's policy allow. For me, a 10-15 min smoke break between 2200 meds...
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    Do you round on your patients every one hour?

    nursemike replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    thank you for this fine example that a surplus of education does not have to be an insurmountable handicap. you know, i truly do believe that everyone from my nm to my ceo wants to do the right thing,...
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    Do you round on your patients every one hour?

    nursemike replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    I was tired and a little grumpy, so I was being sarcastic. Our facility says we are "patient-centered," and to be honest, I think we usually do a decent job of that, although I've never actually...
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    Do you round on your patients every one hour?

    nursemike replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    The problem, here, is that some of you people are foolishly clinging to the outmoded notion that a nursing education and however many years of working experience qualify you to make nursing...
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    When money is low...

    nursemike replied to dipsett08's topic in General Nursing

    I like Stanley's view, that your dignity is yours, regardless of your circumstances or what anyone else thinks. But I see in many of my patients how fragile dignity can be. If one loses one's sense...
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    A helpful tip

    nursemike posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    I just wanted to pass along to my brethren that if you go into a bar and put a roll of quarters in the jukebox and play Warren Zevon's Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner over and over and over,...