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  1. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

    anonymurse replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    My purely personal preference is to lucidly experience my own death. If my mentation is going, I don't want to be kept hanging on until I can't cognitively process the experience, nor if in pain do I...

  2. i am worried that my past will cause me......

    anonymurse replied to iwanttobeanurse101's topic in General Nursing

    Well read your state's NPA and your BoN's regs to see if that's an automatic exclusion. And if not, and your board asks questions in these cases, remember that by having been 100% above-board with...

  3. LPN/RN Rumble

    anonymurse replied to BellaItalianaLPN's topic in General Nursing

    RNs and LPNs are in the same boat. They have the same problems. They have the same needs. And they're never going to see any improvement until they unite on terms of equality as professionals. Without...

  4. New Grad with Liability Insurance Question

    anonymurse replied to Ohmygosh's topic in General Nursing

    I began my NSO coverage as a student. I'll leep it as long as I have my

  5. Nurses not doing assessments

    anonymurse replied to gucci rush's topic in General Nursing

    Highly recommend "Secrets Heart & Lung Sounds Workshop" audio CD with booklet by Dr Salvatore Mangione. Explains how to reason through the sounds you hear. Got mine through

  6. Who Is Your Mentor?

    anonymurse replied to dari98's topic in General Nursing

    I had one true mentor in the military. They don't make many like that, and of course the chemistry has to be there. I had four when I ran a civic org, one crowd and individual behavior expert, one who...

  7. Change in IV Phenergan Policy

    anonymurse replied to RNKPCE's topic in Patient Medications

    Yeah but you still have way more adverse effects than with

  8. Help! I'm not a quitter, but...

    anonymurse replied to nskoog's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, well there are tons of advanced practice gigs where you're still one-on-one with patients. And if these schools don't offer that education, maybe you don't really want to hang with them. On...

  9. Change in IV Phenergan Policy

    anonymurse replied to RNKPCE's topic in Patient Medications

    Sure wish they'd make Zofran as cheap as phenergan. Presto, no

  10. IV Administration of drugs...KVO vs numerous saline flushes??

    anonymurse replied to LucyLu's topic in Patient Medications

    Depends. How important is it to know for sure you have instant reliable IV access? This depends on the pt's stability. How often do you have to access the port? Screwing luer locks on and off an INT...

  11. IV Administration of drugs...KVO vs numerous saline flushes??

    anonymurse replied to LucyLu's topic in Patient Medications

    A lot depends on the value I attach to having a reliable site instantly available (depends on pt instability), plus how hard it is to get a line on that pt, vs. pt convenience (mobility). Also the...

  12. Accepted to both which one do I pick??

    anonymurse replied to Alert&Orientedx0's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    You present a huge problem, non-nurse to NP. I'd chunk a problem that big into manageable pieces. Remember you absolutely have to get past one step before going on to another. And even before the...

  13. Help with I & O

    anonymurse replied to RN ColbyJack's topic in Cardiac

    I'll bring them a hat and chat about I&O and our charting needs before they transition from foley/urinal to BSC or BR. Most are willing to use the urinal to assist in measurement even after...

  14. Transporting Telemetry Patients

    anonymurse replied to mercyrn02's topic in Cardiac

    If there isn't a clear need according to available data, our doctors write "off floor off telemetry" and trust us to do the right thing if things change. They trust us because we talk to our doctors...

  15. Trouble with charting

    anonymurse replied to 3KittiesRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you are taking/giving verbal report, you can use the Kardex to note things like med times, significant problems/interventions/outcomes, FSBS and special notes. So you use it as a skeleton care plan...

  16. Nursing diagnosis

    anonymurse replied to Liebchen's topic in General Nursing

    You'll have to ask your instructors. We were permitted to use medical Dx's that the doctors came up with if they were in the chart, with this format: Nursing Dx 2° Medical Dx Ex. "Risk for falls 2°...

  17. Question about co-worker competence

    anonymurse replied to NightICURNBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a problem for Staff Development. If they can't be trained, now that's a horse of a different

  18. starting a nursing career at 55??

    anonymurse replied to deb2mirabelle's topic in General Nursing

    I figure when my knees start giving out, I'll do home health out in the country. Not much standing, lots of driving, no rushing around. Guess there are lots of places to go when the knees quit. Staff...

  19. Nursing diagnosis

    anonymurse replied to Liebchen's topic in General Nursing

    Well I'd have 2 questions, first what brought him to the hospital (if he's a hospital pt, you didn't say), and second, how badly does his COPD affect his ADLs? But absent that info (viewing it as a...

  20. how far can a rn travel??

    anonymurse replied to jeremy z's topic in General Nursing

    My reply is off topic to your request, but anyway we had a couple of students who wanted to do that but they didn't last. I tried to figure it out. The nearest guess I have, and I may be wrong, is...

  21. urgent!! please help

    anonymurse replied to mimmy123's topic in General Nursing

    1. Because you'll want to pass the NCLEX. 2. Because if you do pass, you'll want to keep your license. Other answers will occur to you as you interact with

  22. How much do u like nursing? Scale of 1 to 10

    anonymurse replied to goldie66's topic in General Nursing

    10, but then I find nursing to be my most productive environment for personal spiritual development. Maybe that also means the level of challenge is high, 'cause there's no development without...

  23. Pt stole from a worker?/drama

    anonymurse replied to aerorunner80's topic in General Nursing

    My wife is always losing keys and military IDs. I have tried to get her to do the guy's thing, which is to always have cash, keys and a few important plastic cards on one's person. This is hard for...

  24. urgent!! please help

    anonymurse replied to mimmy123's topic in General Nursing

    What I did whenever a choice of topic was involved (in an APA formatted paper) was to simply search for articles. Sometimes only one topic had enough nursing research articles to meet the minimum...

  25. Conflicted over starting INH

    anonymurse replied to Cowboys_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well from what I was reading, for an unknown reason the shot's efficacy (diet? exposure prior to vaccination? storage and expiration compliance?)depends on where you get it. You're right about third...