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Ok, I understand the topic of this thread has been focused on blame, accountability and the appropriateness of the subsequent disciplinary action that followed. My immediate reaction to the information provided is that it would have been a perfect ...

Where you put it.

I'm pretty sure that's on back order.

Depending on your personality, the positives may look like negatives (and the negatives positives.) So here goes... POSITIVES: * you get to know your patients well and you will be able to pick up on very subtle changes in condition that might otherw...

It seems to me that if one has the time/physical capacity/mental capacity to get online or call for a reservation for the EMERGENCY room, one may want to consider the possibility that his/her ailment is not an EMERGENCY... I see an EMERGENCY as somet...

The question of varying dose availabilities is not important from what I read of your situation. You should be asking yourself "why did I give a drug without checking the strength/ml on the vial?" If that sounded "mean", I apologize because my inten...

Call me crazy, but I think it's all a matter of money. We have had issues (on and off) getting IV: B12 Magnesium Decadron Leucovorin Cisplatin 5-FU and most recently, Taxol (probably THE most frequently given drug where I work) It's not only an unf...

Look! It's a bird...it's a plane....oh, wait, it's just a high horse...

"sure, I can run your chemo in wide open so you can get to your important appointment...I didn't realize your appointment involved a ride to the ER via EMS. How silly of me. "

Take any and every opportunity that presents itself (and seek new ones) to perform skills that you have "learned." If you practice as a student, you have one less worry when you start your first nursing job. Bite the bullet and DO IT!

My immediate reaction is this... NCLEX is based completely on the "perfect world" version of nursing. Is it possible that your experience as an LPN is causing you to answer the questions in the mindset of the "real world" scenario? Seems like I wou...

When my Baker Act patient (accidental OD) asked why He couldn't have the wall clock in his room, I said "they are afraid you'll be in here killing time" before thinking. I thought the sitter was going to fall out of his chair. Patient thought it pr...

The only thing stopping me from ripping off your arm ( which is very firmly gripping by boob at the moment) and using it to knock the silly grin off of your face, is the fact that I have one hand Kinking off your NG, and the other trying to pour your...

I had one similar to this: "U/S DVT to r/o LLE" I'm no doc, but I don't need an US to r/o LLE. And if a LLE is ruled out, so is a LLE DVT...

I'm not sure about the rules with HIPPA, but the boundaries set by HIPAA may have been overstepped. Sorry, I had a rough night shift...

I've come to accept the reality that not everyone (well, anyone) can be perfect like me. Don't bother trying, it just makes you look silly.

It's not insulting. If it were, nurses would be insulted by everyone but other nurses. And from what I've seen, many nurses can't seem to get along with each other. I notice some people can turn anything into an insult. I just turn everything in...

I can remember being obsessed with this fear that I had of death and dying for most of my childhood and teenage years. I dwelled on all of the potential (negative) possibilities that my imagination presented. Fear, of anything, is a terrible state ...

I could give you a textbook sized list of BS justifications for why your facility is right or wrong, but who would I be kidding anyway? I'd be lying if I told you I wouldn't be just as angry in the same situation. Finish your degree, get outta there...

It does in my hospital. Probably not just in isolation rooms, either. Funny, I can never seem to get a room cleaned when it's desperately needed, yet I had a patient recently who went for dialysis and came back to a completely empty room! They eve...

We have a lot of HDY and PDY patients. We don't get much more of a warning than "we're on our way down the hall" when they take pts. to ADU. We recently started using an SBAR sheet and the ADU nurse fills it out and faxes it to us when HDY is compl...

Why can you only ask for........one........thing..........at..........a...........time..........?????? When I say "Is there anything else I can do for you right now?":) You say "Nausea Medicine.":rolleyes: I say "Sure, let me get it. Is there ANYT...

I am not quite as hardcore one way or the other as some here, and I do feel for anyone dealing with addiction. Hell, I'm smoking a cigarette at this very moment. Addiction, to anything, sucks. I'll admit, I was quite a wild child and am lucky to ...

All I can say about this post is that I wholeheartedly disagree.

Is that geographically possible?