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  1. How high tech should we go?

    jen42 replied to Hilundlass's topic in School

    Oh, now, I think that high school nurse is being unfair. There are kids with ankylosing spondylitis (sp?), nerve disorders, and recovering from cancer that need prescription pain meds. They also...

  2. "What do you need Christmas off for? You don't have kids!" (rant)

    jen42 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think your coworker is right. You know why? Because secretly, you are an orphan with no family whatsoever. And furthermore, you have NO friends or loved ones you'd like to be with. None at all. On...

  3. Your Worst Mistake

    jen42 replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    The error another nurse told me about when I was crying on the BMT floor as a new nurse will always stick in my brain... She was transfusing some blood, and it just wouldn't tranfuse at all. She...

  4. written up already!

    jen42 replied to janetrette's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The first year of nursing is when new nurses make mistakes, like everybody else starting out in a new profession. If you make a mistake, you usually get written up. If you're getting written up every...

  5. Would you become a nurse again

    jen42 replied to Human nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I've been wishing I became a teacher. Or bit the bullet and studied opera singing. I was too afraid I'd

  6. 24-hour shift?

    jen42 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm faced with a possible dilemma... I have two jobs, and once a week I work shifts back-to-back- days at one job and evenings at the other. The problem is, lately we have no on-call nurses for Job #2...

  7. Sick, sick, sick

    jen42 posted a topic in School

    This is my first year in school nursing. I am getting sick ALL THE TIME. I swear I've had about a week of health. If I'm not fighting off something, I've got in and I'm home with a fever. Is this...

  8. Cold Case episode - school nurse depiction

    jen42 replied to bergren's topic in School

    What, you don't make out with the math

  9. wearing perfume to work

    jen42 replied to acaringnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't wear anything. I did get a sharp talking-to from one nurse until she let me get a word in and say that I was wearing DEODORANT, and if she had a problem with that she should smell me without...

  10. What Gets to You??

    jen42 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    Head lice. And deep, horrible, suppurating wounds that are oozing green stuff as fast as I can blot it away and have horrible mounds of granulating flesh rearing up from it until it looks like some...

  11. Nosebleeds

    jen42 replied to roseycrest's topic in School

    I always pinch the bridge of the nose right under the eyes- hard. I haven't had one that didn't dry up after a few

  12. Would you marry your prison pen pal?

    jen42 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    Well, it depends on how MUCH marijuana... But you're right, simple assault usually doesn't get you a prison sentence, unless you punch out Paris Hilton or something. I am sure there are some people...

  13. Please answer for my class research paper

    jen42 replied to Deb123j's topic in General Nursing

    I've actually worked in animal research before I went back to school to be an RN. I couldn't do it. I worked in a lab that experimented on periodontal disease. They used rats, monkeys, and beagles...

  14. LPN School nurse?

    jen42 replied to AngelOvaMe's topic in School

    In Washington not only do you need a BSN but you have to have EXTRA credits in nursing or education. I was hired on a "preliminary" basis and have to spend 2 weekends in Tacoma in the spring doing...

  15. Would you marry your prison pen pal?

    jen42 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    There are always women who want to save men. Come on, why else is the John Travolta bad-boy motorcycle-ridin' image so popular? It's just an extension of it. I work in a jail, and I am sometimes...

  16. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    jen42 replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    With the nursing shortage, there will always be agency nurses. Getting a hospital "float pool" is a godsend, since they work at the facility all the time, albeit in different units, and usually have...

  17. Sex at School Increasing, Some Educators Say

    jen42 replied to bergren's topic in School

    Class of 95, happened ALL the time. Mostly at parties, but sometimes on school property. There were famous janitorial closets that nobody ever went into. Of course, in my junior high, two TEACHERS...

  18. Worst patient experience

    jen42 replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    In bone marrow transplant, we had a guy who had steroid psychosis. I wasn't there that night, but apparently he somehow managed to barricade his nurse in his room, and went rampaging up and down the...

  19. AUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!(i.e.head lice)

    jen42 replied to jen42's topic in School

    Well, after seeing three more cases of horrendous, horrendous head lice infestation, I can happily say that it doesn't freak me out as much as it used to. However, I still have dreams where I'm...

  20. What Grossness Is Cool?

    jen42 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    I used to work in a place with teens who would stick ANYTHING they could in their arms... glass, plastic, pieces of CDs, pencil shards... anything. Also in their ears. While I didn't like that they...

  21. Kids with broken bones

    jen42 posted a topic in Pediatric

    I've been an elementary school nurse for two months now, and we've had 5 broken bones. (Damn you, monkey bars!!) I've dealt with broken bones in adults, where people scream, cry, or talk incessantly,...

  22. Any new 2nd degree nurses?

    jen42 replied to cjog's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I felt unprepared when I started, but I think everybody does. I avoided the general med-surg clinicals like the plague when I could... instead did cancer, GI, cardiology. Never inserted a Foley on a...

  23. New grad - should I go right into psych???

    jen42 replied to spunkymunkey's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Go for it. If you decide you want to do med-surg later, there's enough of a shortage that some hospital will train you well. For now, why not do what you

  24. Cosmetic Treatments for Inmates

    jen42 replied to crjnursewarrior's topic in Correctional

    We do give out dandruff shampoo for people with really bad dandruff... if we don't, they scratch scratch scratch and then get a big MRSA-infected sore on their head. Ick. And we give out acne meds as...

  25. Honest Answer Here ??

    jen42 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    I'm lucky. Our teachers treat me like a total professional, to the point of constantly asking for health advice. However, they do send down "behavior problems" sometimes... I used to do pediatric...