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  1. What would you have done?

    anonymurse replied to miwachiru123's topic in General Nursing

    Yah, that's the problem. Don't smoke in an enclosed space. Gases are fluids in terms of the way they move. They stick to and move along surfaces. Smoke outdoors facing downwind. If there's no breeze...

  2. Riddle me this

    anonymurse replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, was just pulling your leg. There's lots of great stuff to learn in nursing school but much of it you'll have to dig up on your own after you get past the mandatory time

  3. Riddle me this

    anonymurse replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    A successful shift depends on my CNA. The great ones are student nurses. Not all SNs are necessarily competent, but the great ones do critical thinking. I give them full report so they know what to...

  4. Riddle me this

    anonymurse replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    Debate nursing diagnoses, calculate body mass indices and nose drip rates, write nursing plans of care, do team Powerpoint presentations on how to wash hands, palpate fundi, you know, all those...

  5. inside the mind of a nurse.....

    anonymurse replied to ERRN92's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you have any OCD traits at all if you can spell it

  6. Too slow for med-surg: other work options?

    anonymurse replied to samiracat1958's topic in General Nursing

    If the issue is multitasking, maybe home health would work for you. I'd like to do that some day. One patient at a time, lots of teaching, and you can really lavish time on each. There's a high paper...

  7. Entitled Generation

    anonymurse replied to javajaydon's topic in General Nursing

    Sure it's a headache for you, but I love 'em all, grumblers, call-ins, quitters! Were it not for them, I'd be stuck at 36 hours instead of regularly hitting my 60-hour weekly goal.

  8. Creating sustainability for a nursing career.

    anonymurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    There are many angles to the concept of sustainability, but in a nutshell, I believe that, applied broadly and consistently, it solves a host of other problems posted here. That is, we can do...

  9. Smoking And Nurses

    anonymurse replied to ABC054's topic in General Nursing

    It has to affect judgment because you have a hard time with it at work? Yah, I can see right there how critical thinking is affected by

  10. most controversial medications

    anonymurse replied to defeatedcreek's topic in Patient Medications

    What interests me are the high media exposure meds that patients worry about, like oxycodone or

  11. Would you wear a tux to work on New Year's Eve?

    anonymurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    ...that is, if you own a tux, if facility policy doesn't forbid, and if you're working New Year's

  12. LO's that KNOW IT ALL

    anonymurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    What's a K-jones, a craving for bananas?

  13. LO's that KNOW IT ALL

    anonymurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Reading this thread turned a little light bulb on over my head. Now y'all roll this idea around in your minds and see if it fits some situations you've been in. Maybe sometimes family members can...

  14. What is NS NOT compatible with?

    anonymurse replied to 2blessed2Bstressed's topic in General Nursing

    The insides of

  15. What Is Your Definition Of Caring?

    anonymurse replied to IIIseeyaa's topic in General Nursing

    I think honesty counts for more than anything in this kind of forum. I mean, is this the kind of question you want to say has "wrong" answers? And sometimes honesty brings important truth. Now as to...

  16. Do You Tell EVERYONE You Are a Nurse?

    anonymurse replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I read somewhere a warning that having nursey things on your car can attract break-ins, stalkers, etc. Maybe nurses are seen by criminals as more vulnerable than the general population. In connection...

  17. I need to hear from the real nurses!

    anonymurse replied to FuturoEnfermera's topic in General Nursing

    a big mix of things, but the main deal is that all nurses are real nurses. they're all as different from each other as can be imagined. so are their employment settings. once you get through school...

  18. All White Uniform Dress Code?!!

    anonymurse replied to keludtke's topic in General Nursing

    we get the pt comments and the main complaints are: too noisy, room mate problems, no food choices, and food too bland. no mention of telling nurses from others. actually if pts called everyone a...

  19. IV Antibiotics

    anonymurse replied to TelyRN's topic in General Nursing

    The reason everyone gets Protonix on a cardiac unit is to prevent them from having heartburn. Not that hospitals care so much about their pts' dining experience, but they don't want you to be wasting...

  20. How do you protect your identity?

    anonymurse replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    Signing paperwork in a chart the pt doesn't have access to fulfills the facility's administrative requirements, but that's not the issue, which is making ourselves identifiable and accountable to the...

  21. How do you protect your identity?

    anonymurse replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry for the delay. Because I'm here to explore issues inappropriate to be discussed in my work environment. And the reasons they are inappropriate are because if the nurse and facility were...

  22. Why do Male Nurses Complain about Scrub Color & other Inconsequential Issues?

    anonymurse replied to AmaurosisFugax's topic in Men in Nursing

    While true for color schemes, evidence-based corporate uniforming (researched by John T. Molloy, the pioneer who discovered the strong association between student performance and teacher dress) says...

  23. What do you think?

    anonymurse replied to casperx875x's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto for me. Cooking is outside my scope of practice. That's why my facility hires folks specially to cook instead of just tacking cooking onto my list of things to do. But really, this is about...

  24. How nasty!!

    anonymurse replied to rnrae's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah. What I want is for someone to invent cheap disposable stethoscope diaphragm covers that will be easy to apply and remove and acoustically efficient, something like a super-thin plastic sticky...

  25. How do you stay nonjudgmental?

    anonymurse replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see anyone meditating on the universal laws of cause and effect. But every day, I see the work of nurses who do their job to the best of their ability for all pts no matter what, and I hear...