hypnotic_nurse

I have a second job doing psych. We can wear scrubs or street clothes (no jeans). Mostly I wear scrubs, but then again, I work nights. I'd go with plain generic clothing or scrubs (color doesn't matter, really). Boring clothes means it's less likely ...

I absolutely was not going to be a nurse (too many family members in it already). I refused to even consider it for many, many years. So no, I have no calling. But I did become at nurse at 44 for a number of reasons. Doesn't make me less good at wha...

First name basis if the pt calls me by my first name. Otherwise we're all on a Mr/Ms basis. Docs who use my first name (but don't give me permission to use theirs) get the first name of "Doc".

I graduated in 2000 at age 44. I already had a previous degree. Nursing school was difficult, but more because I had so many other responsibilities in addition to school (I worked fulltime and was divorced with two preteen kids). I felt crazed by str...

I've been in your shoes. Some people are very intimidated by knowledge display and this is exacerbated if the knowledge displayer is younger, better looking, of a different gender, or is perceived to have been given better life opportunities. It gets...

Talk to a lawyer or a judge and get a valid opinion on this -- you might even call the BON and see what they say. This is what I know: My daughter was in a similar situation when she was 12. I made her go through all the probation, etc. When she was ...

I've had two colpos, and the pain level depends a lot on the skill of the MD and the sharpness of the instrument (btw, the snips they take for a colpo are teeny, and most docs will only do one or two -- the resident who did my first one took 7). But ...

I worked for KUMC when I lived in Kansas (research nurse) and I loved it. Great benefits and great working conditions.

Er, I mean, having been a breastfeeding mother....

In that case, so are tears, and sweat, and spit and airborne sneeze particles...I just don't understand why we let any people out in public AT ALL. Maybe we should just stay home unless we leave in biohazard suits because, gee, we might get some body...

Ah! So if they're cute it's more OK than if they're ugly. So it's back to breastfeeding being more about sex than about nourishment for children.

Actually, yes, it was intended (and a little humor never hurts!)

First of all, I have to get this off my chest: Discreet: marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint Discrete: separate and distinct There are at least two DISCRETE factions here on allnurses in the discussion of DISCREET breastfeeding. :ch...

If you don't want to learn a spoken language, you can take Latin instead -- most schools will accept it for your foreign language credits. I took it in two correspondence courses over a summer. It was a lot of written work but I didn't have to go any...

I wear scrubs sometimes because they are inexpensive and comfortable, and they are allowed at this job (research nursing). But there are days (sometimes weeks) when I don't even SEE a patient. And when I DO see a patient, they are outpatient cancer p...

It is very important to keep professional distance no matter where you work, but especially in psychiatry. We were advised that it was unethical to ever see a patient socially, and if we happened to come across one of our patients in daily life outsi...

I'd see a psychologist if I wanted a specific kind of therapy, such as behavioral therapy or play therapy, or a specialized kind of test such as Stanford Binet or Wechsler. If I wanted meds and talk therapy, I'd see an NP. If I wanted strictly talk t...

When I worked in psychiatry, it was very clearcut -- you did not date patients, you did not become friends with patients, you did not participate in their lives outside of the therapeutic milieu. Period. Sometimes you can't avoid it, if you already k...

I know when I moved from KS to OK, the only people who would talk to me were individuals in departments. Anything I sent to hospitals dropped into a black hole. I was offered several jobs prior to moving, but not a single one was a hospital where I'd...

During my clinicals, whenever I saw a doc, I'd ask him/her questions right off the bat -- they like answering, they think you're intelligent for asking, and I can't recall ever being quizzed by an MD.

Downtown is filled with people today; Clinton and Cheney are here. My survivor friend won't be there, though -- like so many of her group, it's still too overwhelming. Everyone here on campus had 168 seconds of silence at 9:02.

I'm a research nurse and make about the same amount of money as floor nurses in my city. I do not have CCRC certification, but I've done this type of work for 15 years now. Works out to about $25/hr.

This is a good place to complain, because people here work in our profession and understand each other. My family can barely stand to hear the word "blood"...and I imagine others have the same problem. :) Some people on this board have been working i...

I'm with Tweety, only I was also a single mom with two kids.

Chad, I'm so sorry about your dog. I can't bear for living things to suffer. And rescue animals any time I can. When my kids were smaller, if we saw a dead animal on the side of the road, I'd them "It's just resting." They knew it wasn't true, I knew...