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  1. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

    nightengalegoddess replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Right on Debbie Anne! It warms my heart to know that someone got something out of my posts besides anger. Doesn't hurt to try. Love and self-actualization to all....patients and nurses

  2. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

    nightengalegoddess replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Excuse me. My original post re: patient care was post #89. May want to refer to my nursing judgement. Again, the most recent posts were directed towards nurses who are at their wits end about their...

  3. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

    nightengalegoddess replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry you guys...I've learned this after many years of self-education. If you read my first post about how I work with my patients; this is entirely different than what I have posted here. This is for...

  4. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

    nightengalegoddess replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    addendum. My BMI is actually 20.7....just checked again. Sorry, whoops. But who really cares? BMI is

  5. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

    nightengalegoddess replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Okay..ya'll. This thread involves our nurses' personal emotional feelings. This is really a doozy. I posted long ago about how I deal with my obese and at risk patients. I will forgoe all that at this...

  6. Have you ever had a pt have sex...

    nightengalegoddess replied to jarrn03's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This thread has turned out to be a doozy! This is a hot one!....So many personal issues being adressed beyond the OP's simple inquiry which seemed to me to be along the lines of appropriate behavior...

  7. Leaving position after less than 1 year

    nightengalegoddess replied to prinsessa's topic in General Nursing

    Looking forward to the experienced nurses to answer here. I need to know how to interview after coming from an unethical and unsafe hospital environment as

  8. What info should be "tattooed" on a nurse's brain?

    nightengalegoddess replied to rloh961's topic in General Nursing

    ...look at the patient, trust your gut, search your memory for what may be the reason this pt. is changing in condition, google your hunches, look at the labs, just know how to round out the whole...

  9. Need advice about job situation

    nightengalegoddess replied to sungrl01's topic in General Nursing

    Are you so valuable in your present postition that they would hate to get rid of you? That may be a naive idea...but possible. I would just be applying, shaking hands, calling over and over again at...

  10. Im scared!! help

    nightengalegoddess replied to Amberlynnp13's topic in General Nursing

    Normal and common to have these feelings!But there are also options where you can learn and work within an environment which isn't so stressful....how about Med-Surg..( I know, it's stressful...

  11. Sleeping on lunch break

    nightengalegoddess replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    I have not read all the responses yet...(addicted to this site but got to get going)....but I was wondering about it too...When I was going through a divorce and a death of a good friend a while...

  12. Rn's, are you able to do job well without chemistry class?

    nightengalegoddess replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    I was required to take chemistry. You do not really utilize most of the information in it. But I truly believe that it helps the mind think critically and will help to involve all areas of the brain...

  13. I Quit Bedside Nursing

    nightengalegoddess replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing

    To dear LittleMouse....stay in nursing if you possibly can. As others have said, bullies and sourpusses prey on the unconfident. Remember your qualities and enhance them as much as possible. What has...

  14. I Quit Bedside Nursing

    nightengalegoddess replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing

    KalipsoRed, although I truly understand the spirit of what you have said re: Florence Nightengale and the martyr thing...I DO dislike nursing allowing the martyrdom!! Hate that! But I HVE TO mention...

  15. random drug testing

    nightengalegoddess replied to TamTam23's topic in General Nursing

    Backatit!!! Yes. How about, "The work environment here was so hostile, my physician had to prescribe this or that just so I could tolerate managements' inhumane and incompetent behaviours!!!"...I am...

  16. Why are people encouraging me to become an M.D. rather than an RN?

    nightengalegoddess replied to tnewman's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry Rkitty...no offense...I'm an RN myself! I was just pointing out the different models / medical and nursing. They are very different, I'm sure you already know ...and different mindsets may work...

  17. random drug testing

    nightengalegoddess replied to TamTam23's topic in General Nursing

    Horsehoe: The way it reads to me is that there needs to be a suspectful reason to demand drug testing. I DO believe it is worthwhile for the protection of the public that health-care workers are not...

  18. random drug testing

    nightengalegoddess replied to TamTam23's topic in General Nursing

    addendum whoops....I was talking about the poster Backatit re: my hunch of benzo tx...sorry got a little "anxious"...:

  19. random drug testing

    nightengalegoddess replied to TamTam23's topic in General Nursing

    Clean and sober is good. It is the only way to go!! But what about someone with an anxiety disorder who has to take a benzo on occassion if life'e trauma amps up their symptoms? And what if their...

  20. What does "I'll do the paperwork" really mean?

    nightengalegoddess replied to MHSA LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Duh, Old Timer...WAS I EVER IGNORANT !!!!!! : -) . Thank you so much. I am imagining a bunch of our old elders.........I am such a green nurse. But even makes the event of the OP more frightening!!!...

  21. Why are people encouraging me to become an M.D. rather than an RN?

    nightengalegoddess replied to tnewman's topic in General Nursing

    After reading more posts...when I finish my BSN....if I live long enough...WHEN i live long enough...BAM!!! Maybe I'll get to be a N.P......this community never fails to inspire me!! :

  22. Why are people encouraging me to become an M.D. rather than an RN?

    nightengalegoddess replied to tnewman's topic in General Nursing

    Reply to very original poster...Sounds to me like a pretty obvious message that if you have some obvious qualitities of being a physician..than you ought to go for it if you have the time and money!.....

  23. What does "I'll do the paperwork" really mean?

    nightengalegoddess replied to MHSA LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Just a suggestion ....never trust that anyone will do what is your job. That's been said already...but, if ya want something done right, do it yourself. Also....I'm glad you left! Yay! Sounds like a...

  24. So tired :(

    nightengalegoddess replied to EarthChild1130's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for clarification, Fancypants. Guess I need to get my human head into the higher thinking mode as well!!!

  25. So... how do you deflect family members when you're busy?

    nightengalegoddess replied to nenabee's topic in General Nursing

    addendum to above: Yes, sometimes when they are just b&*%$ing about water or manicures....I always have this in my hat..." I want you to know that your mom, sister, etc..is the most stable and...