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  1. giving your email to a patient, yes or no?

    anonymurse replied to Sterren's topic in General Nursing

    First, I'm guessing by your post that you're a hospital nurse. If so, your relationship with your patients begins when you accept assignment and ends when you hand off your patient to the gaining...

  2. Potassium tablets!

    anonymurse replied to Acarter2618's topic in General Nursing

    Pts seem to prefer Klor-Con fruit flavored powder dissolved in juice to the elixir or tablet forms. If your patient's diarrheic, examine the stool to make sure tablets aren't passing through their...

  3. Best Way to Learn Medical Spanish?

    anonymurse replied to cbcle's topic in Virginia Nursing

    We have translator phones and I use 'em. Translation is outside my scope of practice. If Spanish were my native language, OTOH, that would hold up in

  4. charting resting with eyes closed vs "asleep"

    anonymurse replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    I chart "snoring" when I

  5. Stock up on mucomyst!

    anonymurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Long term Tylenol for a broken heart?

  6. Med-surg or tele floor?

    anonymurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Follow a nurse for at least an entire shift on both units. Then pick the job that matches your chaos tolerance/craving

  7. Would you switch to nights for alot more money?

    anonymurse replied to Maco's topic in General Nursing

    The first thing you want out of ANY change to working conditions is personal sustainability, your own ability to hang with your job. Will the change burn you out? If so, ignore all other...

  8. Did I keep my composure...too well?

    anonymurse replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    An old lesson taught me by a wise old nurse: "Never let a pt get between you and the

  9. If you have rec' d the H1N1 vaccine - please report

    anonymurse replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    IM last month; no

  10. Do you ever plan on leaving the bedside?

    anonymurse replied to ajaxgirl's topic in General Nursing

    :redbeathe It's bedside nursing for me. I love my pts and co-workers. I can't see how shuffling paper or re-teaching some nurse basic CPR can be anywhere near as rewarding. To me, it's the highest...

  11. Tell me about your "brain" or "cheat sheet"

    anonymurse replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for focusing on a very important tool. On my tele floor, we use a written report sheet that's evolved over a period of years. Pretty much everyone jots notes on it all shift from beginning to...

  12. No nursing jobs in 2012 ???

    anonymurse replied to rawoysteraddict's topic in General Nursing

    You're right to be concerned, but IMO for the wrong reasons. I'd be concerned because the economy ought to hit rock bottom maybe 2 to 5 years from now. It's due for another jolt right about now, but...

  13. Can I apply for a job before I graduate?

    anonymurse replied to dine saw's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah. My last course was gonna have to be on some unit, so I picked the unit and interviewed for the job, which got me on that unit for the last course. After graduation, I became a RNA (RN...

  14. How to artfully dodge conversation?

    anonymurse replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    My pager is set to the loudest tone and it's pretty much guaranteed it'll go off every 5 minutes, so all I have to do is hit the button, peer at the screen, smile and say "sorry, I have to get this,"...

  15. role of nursing diagnosis versus doctor diagnosis?

    anonymurse replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    It's very important for getting through nursing school, so don't listen to all this commentary. Take it very seriously. You can deride it after

  16. Best Place to Live/Work in Virginia

    anonymurse replied to NURSESTAR's topic in Virginia Nursing

    From what I hear, it's rough for new grads all over VA (except if you graduate from a school attached to the hospital you're applying to). So if I was a new grad, I'd start by applying for Federal...

  17. Will telemetry cert matter anywhere else?

    anonymurse replied to newtress's topic in Cardiac

    If you mean PCCN (which is the only tele cert I'm aware of), in difficulty I've heard it's just short of CCRN (the CCRN without Qs about vents) and has been described to me by several coworkers as...

  18. Son wants to be a CRNA, but wants his ears guaged

    anonymurse replied to topher-67's topic in General Nursing

    Tell him the truth: all it takes is one disapproving person, ONE, and he may never know who it is, to derail his career path

  19. Son wants to be a CRNA, but wants his ears guaged

    anonymurse replied to topher-67's topic in General Nursing

    Tell him the truth: all it takes is one disapproving person, ONE, to derail his career path

  20. How do you like report?

    anonymurse replied to Emery's topic in General Nursing

    Take a look at the SBAR format of reporting and use that as a general outline of what order to put things

  21. How do you feel about this?

    anonymurse replied to 1TachyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hell, I'd burn

  22. Messed up my first job, now what ?

    anonymurse replied to Da_Milk_of_Amnesia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    From your post and the way you're bashing yourself, I can tell you're into making confessions. I'm not going to address that directly. All I know is you have to view the urge to make confessions as a...

  23. Repsect for new nurses?!!

    anonymurse replied to smstar1996's topic in General Nursing

    The way RNs and LPNs relate where I work, they're coequal--the charge gives us our patient assignments, and everyone helps everyone out after that. So whereas we delegate to aides, we don't delegate...

  24. Disheartened by Administration & need advice

    anonymurse replied to RNMarykay's topic in General Nursing

    You are going to have to discern the founding principle of your new institution. If the original idea was to serve a specialized patient population by tapping into their nonutilization of certain...

  25. How often do you draw Troponins at your hospital?

    anonymurse replied to RNcDreams's topic in Cardiac

    Q3H x3 then 24H after the first