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  1. Conflict resolution

    anonymurse replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    You might want to check out the reviews on "Crucial Conversations" and "Crucial Confrontations"; I'm putting those in my basket for my next order to amazon. Added: I found a review by someone who'd...

  2. Nurses have a 'need to know' outcomes!!!

    anonymurse replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to improve your nursing, then read books and journals, go to school, listen to nursing audio CDs. If you have to get input from strangers as to the propriety of the "spirit" of a thing,...

  3. Which to choose CICU or CV Step Down?

    anonymurse replied to jlcole45's topic in General Nursing

    For what you'd learn, I think it would be well worth following RNs 1 day and 1 night on each

  4. Who's gonna admit it that they went into Nursing b/c of the salary?

    anonymurse replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, but when the economy tanks, which it's already started to do, and companies realize they can get by just fine without fancy new software, the computer market will dry up whereas people will...

  5. Retiring, what is that?

    anonymurse replied to lola2B's topic in General Nursing

    Well Lola, I'll think of you when I'm kicked back with a beer and friends in my rooftop nipa hut or lying on the beach. 'Cause none of us knows how long we have, and while the US is a great place to...

  6. Getting assessments done

    anonymurse replied to suewolfie's topic in General Nursing

    Well I guess you could call it re-prioritizing to quit being fixated on getting full assessments done first thing. It would be a higher priority to do focused assessments on all your folks rapidly so...

  7. How do you keep your nursing practice current?

    anonymurse replied to Djuna's topic in General Nursing

    I don't go out of my way for currency, as I don't have the full skill set yet, so I read books and listen to nursing CDs in my

  8. Nurses have a 'need to know' outcomes!!!

    anonymurse replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lawbreaking is not part of any nursing process. The shift we were assigned these folks is over and they're d/c'd. These people are not our patients. They are private citizens. We are not to do...

  9. Nurses have a 'need to know' outcomes!!!

    anonymurse replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    We have no right to invade anyone's privacy and follow them, most particularly those whose private lives we gain entree into under professional cover. The legal requirements for establishing long-term...

  10. Nurses have a 'need to know' outcomes!!!

    anonymurse replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    A person starts being my pt when I'm assigned him. When my shift ends or he's d/c'd or transferred, he stops being my pt and I stop being his nurse. When a pt gathers private information about a nurse...

  11. What would you have done?

    anonymurse replied to NJNursing's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, however with me, I'd have to say that they'd be personal boundary issues (it's just something I'd never do). I don't think it would be wise for mgmt to take the slightest official notice, rather...

  12. What ice storm? Get yourself to work!!

    anonymurse replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    In an area noted for flooding (that's our biggest natural threat), I chose to live 5 miles from work on a route that has never flooded, in a housing area that has never flooded. It could have been a...

  13. Encouraging words for patients

    anonymurse replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    When patients are bummed out, I always try to find out what they love to do. Then I get them talking about their gardening (for instance) and get them picturing themselves pursuing some pet project...

  14. How do you protect your identity?

    anonymurse replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    Yes to all three (the first is announced, the second is displayed, and in the last case, it's Busch Gardens; the college kids who check your seat belts aren't operators). And every cop and all my...

  15. Nsg care of hypotensive pt

    anonymurse replied to OncNewbie's topic in General Nursing

    What meandragonbrett said. The evidence even shows Trendeleburg can be bad. What poochie said. Tissue perfusion is the name of the game. A few things seem like proper anticipatory responses. First,...

  16. Hit 'Enter' Key to make Paragraphs! (Then I can read your allnurses posts!)

    anonymurse replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I dunno. I used a common military abbreviation (sounds like foo bar) and it got starred, whereas other things I think impolite don't get starred. Beats me how the software's rule

  17. Do you enjoy nursing?

    anonymurse replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing itself?

  18. What MD speciality do you find the most difficult to work with?

    anonymurse replied to nurturing_angel's topic in General Nursing

    My heroes. I've never had a hospitalist refuse to address a problem I brought to them. And if they have the time, they don't mind discussing and teaching. God bless

  19. How do you protect your identity?

    anonymurse replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    My pts have a right to know in whose hands they're committing their very lives, and they have the right to check my credentials on their own at my BoN website. After all, I have access to every bit of...

  20. All White Uniform Dress Code?!!

    anonymurse replied to keludtke's topic in General Nursing

    "Liberals don't care what you do, so long as it's

  21. All White Uniform Dress Code?!!

    anonymurse replied to keludtke's topic in General Nursing

    The RN patch kills the mistaken ID argument:

  22. How To Handle?

    anonymurse replied to Susan9608's topic in General Nursing

    Don't say a word to her or anyone about the incident. Press on with doing your best at work, but begin to explore new prospects

  23. Retire by 30, thanks nursing!

    anonymurse replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    A friend told me in the 10th grade that she was going into nursing to catch a doc and that's exactly what she did. Whatever else might be thought of her, it's rare to find anyone who has a plan 2...

  24. Nursing for the wrong reasons? (long)

    anonymurse replied to Soonstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, not to put too fine a point on it, those are the people you'll find in any field who think God whispers in their ear alone, and it invariably follows that they have the certain feeling that God...

  25. question about IV pump

    anonymurse replied to newohiorn's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah that's flat-out dangerous. I'd never use a piggyback line if less than the whole bag was supposed to run in, because the only way to ensure it'll shut down after the correct volume has been given...