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  1. Need suggestions

    anonymurse replied to nursecassia's topic in General Nursing

    The only sure-fire "exercises" I know of are personal. What I mean is, they start with oneself and don't demand of others. Rather, they invite. Paying 100% attention to what another is saying just...

  2. Unit Secretary....Answer the call light for pete's sake!!!

    anonymurse replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mind people not answering. What I mind is when a secretary who won't leave the nurses station asks "Can I help you?" when the proper response is "Can I get someone else to help you?" And...

  3. Please do not let altered old ladies covered in urine sign out AMA

    anonymurse replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, don't question the pt's former nurse's actions. She managed to skilfully transfer her pt to your care, didn't

  4. Mandatory White Uniforms for RN's- your experience

    anonymurse replied to lauramae18's topic in General Nursing

    Doctors won't wear white (except for a loose-fitting lab coat) because white makes everyone look fat. Think about it. The Navy is the longest-running institution that has a white clothing fetish, and...

  5. Drug Seekers

    anonymurse replied to al7139's topic in Addictions

    CIWA protocols provide ativan, whose metabolite of interest to the human body is indistinguishable from that of alcohol. IOW, you're detoxing alcoholics with the hair of the dog. And this is cool with...

  6. ALL NURSES this affects all of you

    anonymurse replied to AnalegnaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Among a population of a given density (i.e., possible number of daily contacts with others) and a disease of a given communicability, there is a threshold of vaccinations below which an epidemic will...

  7. How long post cath is there risk for bleeding at the site?

    anonymurse replied to Courtney Nurse Writer's topic in Cardiac

    We had a pt ambulating 3 days post cath, doing great, site clear and soft, no signs anything would go wrong, and right there in the hall he started spurting from the

  8. PRN TID

    anonymurse replied to SunnyAndrsn's topic in Patient Medications

    QxH is more comfortable to me, too, but TID PRN is legitimate where the concern is not exceeding a certain amount within a 24-hour period. It allows a certain leeway where the problem centers around a...

  9. Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    anonymurse replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    The discussion changed, as online discussions will, to a questioning of the possibility of STDs in the digestive

  10. Sms orders of physicians: Legality issues

    anonymurse replied to kaNa-kaNa's topic in General Nursing

    Being neither fish nor fowl, it kinda falls between the cracks. A text, though written, doesn't have the persistence of a written order. When I get a written order, I fax it to the pharmacy. Now it's...

  11. Let me be clear there is NO nursing shortage!!!!!!!!! and now THIS????

    anonymurse replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    New grads are still being hired in the Virginia Tidewater

  12. Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    anonymurse replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    If you still don't know how a patient could have a STD infection of the digestive tract, google anal sex, oral sex, systemic STDs,

  13. Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    anonymurse replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    Spelling it out, someone else may well have gotten an STD in their digestive tract from

  14. Pain relief with elderly...

    anonymurse replied to LyndzBenz's topic in General Nursing

    Groggy? She was probably exhausted from fighting the pain all day on top of it

  15. Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    anonymurse replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    One nurse, reading a chart, very loudly asked across the nursing station, "How does a patient get an e. coli infection of the

  16. Not ready to be charge

    anonymurse replied to Manatee111's topic in General Nursing

    Charge, 6 pts, no tech...I'll get back to you next week on that. (Where'd I put my scientific

  17. Compassion.... why is it so hard to give some?

    anonymurse replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Google "borderline personality disorder." If you're going to be truly nonjudgmental, you can't choose sides. The victim-persecutor-rescuer triangle is one of the oldest games on the planet. Avoid...

  18. HELP!

    anonymurse replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    I don't take anything personally. At first it was a decision that took considerable will power to enforce. Now it's second nature. It took years for me. It'll take years for you. But it's worth it. It...

  19. What's the most and least stressful field of nursing?

    anonymurse replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    Where I am is least stressful because I have it down. Also it sits on the sweet spot on my personal chaos-order continuum. And I love the nurses I work with. With all that, the actual specialty...

  20. Honesty is NOT the best policy....

    anonymurse replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Don't take one receptionist's word for anything that changes your

  21. Hairstyle best for nursing

    anonymurse replied to mom35's topic in General Nursing

    Buzz

  22. Just Venting: PCA with an Attitude!

    anonymurse replied to Dottie, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Just to play devil's advocate: remember this episode after you start working and you have a million things to do at once and some relative takes issue that she's not the center of your attention. And...

  23. Myers-Briggs Profile Typing and Nursing

    anonymurse replied to metal_m0nk's topic in General Nursing

    Same here Kristie. Actually I went from ENFP to ENTP during nursing

  24. Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    anonymurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    You're right. I think this is a management thing. Non-practioner administrators don't understand the patient-practitioner relationship. They understand only the customer-merchant relationship. So they...

  25. What is considered the most serious,risky surgery?

    anonymurse replied to beachbutterfly's topic in General Nursing

    It's not the surgery, it's the surgeon. AND the