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  1. What do patients say that irks you?

    mariedoreen replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :) I understand exactly what you're saying and most of the time I'm the first to say let people get things off their chest in peace, so I'm trying to decide what it is that has rubbed me the wrong way...

  2. No jobs in Portland,OR area?

    mariedoreen replied to FirefighterDoug's topic in General Nursing

    Oh hey I never heard about that! Washington just became a lot more

  3. half way through and feeling bleak

    mariedoreen replied to leopold's topic in General Students

    When do you get a break between

  4. What do patients say that irks you?

    mariedoreen replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Part of our role is to educate our patients without judging what we feel they should or should not know. Everyone had to learn what they know at some point, some just learn certain things later than...

  5. No jobs in Portland,OR area?

    mariedoreen replied to FirefighterDoug's topic in General Nursing

    Just don't ask them what they pay to register their cars in that state...

  6. Can you be a good RN with a bad memory??

    mariedoreen replied to studentNY's topic in General Nursing

    I could be writing this thread myself. I used to have an excellent memory and have seen myself reduced to a state of near dementia since starting school. I would be running to my doctor if I wasn't...

  7. Lots of kids, a husband, nursing school AND working as a CNA?

    mariedoreen replied to onehusbandsevenkids's topic in General Students

    Two full time jobs??? And nursing school?? Is this an urban legend??

  8. Would you have called the doc? (LONG)

    mariedoreen replied to SierraN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Because they're not upset because they feel she handled the situation poorly, but because they're jealous she handled it so well. She's probably been handling a lot of situations well and they're...

  9. Question about an accident

    mariedoreen replied to Ready's topic in General Nursing

  10. APA format software

    mariedoreen replied to CardioTrans's topic in General Nursing

    Styleease has saved me a lot of

  11. qod 5/11

    mariedoreen replied to mitchsmom's topic in General Students

    D d/t excess intake of

  12. Student question re Isoflurane

    mariedoreen posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Hello, I'm an ADN student that will be observing in the OR soon and part of my assignment is to look up drug info (dose, onset/peak/HL, nursing implications etc...) on some commonly used medications...

  13. Student question re Isoflurane

    mariedoreen replied to mariedoreen's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Perfect, thank

  14. Comment about LPNs made by clinical instructor

    mariedoreen replied to FutureIsBlue's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. I think where I was coming from on that is the idea of a BSN new graduate earning more than an ADN with 10 years of experience. But if you have a pay scale that's graduated based on the amount...

  15. Totally Freaked out by Autopsy

    mariedoreen replied to luvmypatients's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I witnessed my first autopsy at age 18 when I started work in a pathology lab and I felt many of the same things that you're describing. There's a part of you that expects it to be this controlled...

  16. CNA ? Is it really gross and why do we have to?

    mariedoreen replied to pristy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    CNA classes are often required before admittance to nursing school for several reasons, a couple of the big ones are that: programs have found in the past that they lost several students because...

  17. Comment about LPNs made by clinical instructor

    mariedoreen replied to FutureIsBlue's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, in our school the difference between an LPN and an RN is 6 months... You can't tell me that six months of a college education makes SO much of a difference that I'll be entitled to act oh so...

  18. I am new here and not in school now, I am trying to go back and have a question

    mariedoreen replied to Lorel's topic in General Nursing

    Go talk to advisors from each of the colleges that you are considering, find out what their requirements are, what they will hypothetically take (assuming you've paid off your $3,000) and what you'll...

  19. What do you think???

    mariedoreen replied to galaxy781's topic in General Nursing

    I did pre-reqs with a young girl who had recently immigrated from Russia. I and the rest of the class watched her and another Russian immigrant cheat their way through a year of science courses. I...

  20. No She/he Did Not!!!

    mariedoreen replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    Oh my Lord I hope you reported that. I would have been furious on that patient's behalf

  21. Book Smart or Common Sense?

    mariedoreen replied to GWENLYN18's topic in General Students

    And on the flip side, you can be the best in clinical at skills, everyone who sees you thinks you've been doing it for a lifetime... but if you don't understand electrolytes or what the significance...

  22. New Slant on ADN vs BSN: are ADN programs anti-intellectual?

    mariedoreen replied to NurseFirst's topic in General Nursing

    The fact that your instructors have gone out of their way to inform you that you ask tangential questions makes me believe that it might not mean that they're anti-intellectual, it might simply mean...

  23. Book Smart or Common Sense?

    mariedoreen replied to GWENLYN18's topic in General Students

    Nursing is obviously about far more than technical skills and manual dexterity (I assume that's what you mean by "hands on stuff"). A great nurse has common sense and book smarts and knows his/her...

  24. Neurofibromatosis

    mariedoreen replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who has the disease so am aware of it

  25. How can you say you're not paid well?

    mariedoreen replied to malusport's topic in Emergency

    I often question what I don't know... that's one of the ways I come to