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  1. Male Nurse, Female issues?

    anonymurse replied to LorderrorproneRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Get an

  2. NCLEX-RN in VA HOW LONG SHOULD I WAIT??

    anonymurse replied to badickins's topic in Virginia Nursing

    Make sure you looked it up the right way. I looked mine up the wrong way (sorry I forgot how) but when I looked it up the right way, it was

  3. I desperately need advice

    anonymurse replied to ElseeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Let me ask you: is it possible a diverter is trying to use you for a smoke screen? ===== Another question: has anyone come up to you as if they were your best friend really concerned for your welfare,...

  4. just another vent, unhelpful co-workers

    anonymurse replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    I give help to the max. If I can drop everything to help I do it. However if I need help I'll wait for it. One incident of not waiting for help and getting some temporary back pain was enough of a...

  5. Are cardiology Stethoscopes harder to uses?

    anonymurse replied to Rmedin19's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Since my beloved Thinklabs ds232a bit the dust (it started making a loud swishing sound so I mailed it back this week; hope they can fix it at a reasonable price), I got on a cheap-but-decent scope...

  6. Nursing shoe suggestions for flat feet

    anonymurse replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Try New Balance

  7. Making corrections to a computerized medication record

    anonymurse replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    I have driven back to work to chart something I forgot when it's important enough to me. I expect others to do the same, if it's important enough to them. If I didn't do it, I don't chart it. If I...

  8. If you can say one thing to your boss, what would it be?

    anonymurse replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    It's not a question of luck. While your prospective employer is interviewing you, you're interviewing them. You have to decide in advance what's most important to you. I put the character of the...

  9. If you can say one thing to your boss, what would it be?

    anonymurse replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    You guys make me appreciate my boss even more than I did

  10. Coworker reported me for something I hadn't done = Final warning

    anonymurse replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

    The A is for

  11. has anyone ever expirenced burn out on a job?

    anonymurse replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah. Everyone where I work is burned out. We just keep encouraging each other to keep plugging away anyhow. People will pretty much do anything if they know they're treasured, so we treasure each...

  12. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    anonymurse replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yeah, but you'd do 'em anyway,

  13. Where does the public get the idea that nurses make a ton of money?

    anonymurse replied to edogs334's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Maybe he should make more if he kills fewer pts. Seriously, shouldn't the pt be able to compare doctors' outcomes? Wouldn't that be a major part of an informed decision? And hey, it might also have...

  14. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    anonymurse replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Do any of our docs get mad when we tell them pt X went into afib? NO, because we're speaking their language. If we had to communicate with them in NANDAnese, we'd be as understandable as if we were...

  15. Patient made me feel like low life

    anonymurse replied to FiduciaRN's topic in General Nursing

    It is truly said that "To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." Our problem as a profession is that we were outfitted to deal with psychosocial problems with only psychobabble...

  16. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs??

    anonymurse replied to EMEddie's topic in General Nursing

    It smelled like the computer-related job market was getting soft back in 2004, so I threw over 3 years to a computer sci degree to start from scratch with nursing prereqs. At that time, the salaries...

  17. specialty with lowest turnover rate?

    anonymurse replied to thekid's topic in General Nursing

    Just guessing--school

  18. Physical exam for pressure ulcers with people without risk factors

    anonymurse replied to 4treasures's topic in General Nursing

    It's the last item on my admission assessment routine to say "OK, let me check your tailbone to see how your skin is doing there; can you roll to the side?" and they always do. By doing it all the...

  19. Are cardiology Stethoscopes harder to uses?

    anonymurse replied to Rmedin19's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Here's a review of acoustic stethoscopes that'll get you thinking:

  20. Bored on night shift- should I ask for transfer?

    anonymurse replied to Happyday1's topic in Nursing Career

    Hang out with the monitor tech and learn to do that proficiently. If there's a secretary on nights, learn her job

  21. Why are some nurses so rude to students?

    anonymurse replied to kayty2339's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't say anything about your instructor, and to me the instructor is the key to good clinicals. I've seen instructors who show up early to carefully figure out what pts they want for which...

  22. New male nurse getting ready to tackle first nursing job

    anonymurse replied to scsunurse85's topic in General Nursing

    That's tough. I don't know if I could've succeeded if my first job had been floating. Hard enough learning the ways of just one unit. Good luck to

  23. "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    anonymurse replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    After 1 night (12 hrs) with a pt who eats up all our time, we may ask at the end of the shift not to get that pt the next night (this invariably turns out to be the other 2 nights of the f/t week)....

  24. 2 page resume, what to do?

    anonymurse replied to shuubie's topic in General Nursing

    I've never had a resume, but if I did, I'd do like kittyhawk. For my first RN job, I didn't have any RN experience. But everyone had seen me around as an aide and a student and had already made up...

  25. How to Gain Respect in the Workplace

    anonymurse replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in General Nursing

    Try The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work .This has a slightly higher Amazon rating than the older, original book I read. The basic idea is to look at the literal meaning of what a person...