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  1. leg cramps in my sleep.. help!

    anonymurse replied to Bluestem's topic in General Nursing

    Here's an article "Vitamin E and Leg Cramps" by Robert F. Cathcart, III, M.D. The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 10, 1972, Vol. 219, No. 2. http://www.orthomed.com/vite.htm Also...

  2. Care plans + finding Nsg articles: 2 really good websites everyone should know about!

    anonymurse replied to IvoryLena's topic in General Students

    For any research on current articles, be sure to try http://www.relemed.com/ which actually associates the particulate words in your search term to find relevance. For details on how this works see...

  3. Care Plans Help Please! (with the R\T and AEB)

    anonymurse replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

    You can justify something by asking yourself simply "Of these situations described by my NDXs, what are the associated interventions (including calling a doc)? And which intervention is most important...

  4. scary scary thought.

    anonymurse replied to shippoRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yah, I had the same reservations but then I came up with a few things: 1. When you get through with nursing school you will have some ingrained habits that will come as naturally to you as not...

  5. Nursing Research Paper

    anonymurse replied to Doc to be's topic in Men in Nursing

    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6011/ This is a great page about the history of males in nursing, which is most of the history of nursing (right now they're staging a comeback). It lacks...

  6. Male pts.

    anonymurse replied to anonymurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    Wow, nobody disses me esp. not like that (I mean they may say some things in the grip of anxiety they wouldn't ordinarily say, but that's different). So what's with

  7. Do you check for contacts?

    anonymurse replied to Pumpkin1621's topic in Emergency

    A contact wearer known to a friend's dad reportedly was in a muffler shop and accidentally saw an arc struck. He thought nothing of it. When he got home that night, he removed his contacts and his...

  8. Do nurses only "eat their young" in certain departments?

    anonymurse replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    It seems that the way the work is shaped on a unit is a factor. Sometimes there is no way to get work done on the unit without teamwork. This could be demanded by frequent code situations. On a unit...

  9. UnGodly Painfull Class!

    anonymurse replied to KungFuFtr's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Good read:

  10. Still think we have the best Health care in the world?

    anonymurse replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Tell all you haters of our health system what. Let's just agree to disagree. When I or my family get sick, we'll stay here for care, and when you get sick, you go somewhere else,

  11. This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

    anonymurse replied to GregRN's topic in General Nursing

    No, splinters are what you get after you pass

  12. Where do i go from here?

    anonymurse replied to CRNAorBust's topic in Men in Nursing

    This is interesting. Can you post an example or two to illustrate how you came to the above conclusions? Maybe it's something entirely different that someone here has already worked through. Or maybe...

  13. Nursing Shoes For Men, do they exist?

    anonymurse replied to nursesaideBen's topic in Men in Nursing

    Don't forget good

  14. I Was Told to Say Home Tonight...

    anonymurse replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    I'm stumped. How can a nurse work as a CNA? She's licensed as a nurse, and the law stipulates standards of nursing practice. Can someone explain how a mere temporary accounting department change of...

  15. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    anonymurse replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Well, yeah it can, by careful choice of unit based on unit culture. Every unit has a distinct culture. Some are "I got mine" and some are very

  16. Nurses Political Involvement: Importance of Nursing Activism 2/07

    anonymurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The reasons, I believe, that nurses aren't united in political action are many, but there are 5 major obvious reasons that need to be dealt with: 1. Most major nursing organizations are exclusive:...

  17. Info: Where can I go to get health care regardless of my ability to pay?

    anonymurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Google 'free clinics' and your locale. Lots of dental, mental, eye and other specialty clinics out there

  18. Update 2010: Laws Protecting the Title "Nurse"

    anonymurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks, letter sent to my delegate. I particularly like the Florida

  19. In regard to Nurses and Power

    anonymurse replied to BBFRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hey, whatever their current positions, they're all bedside nurses. But we all know it's easy to forget where you came from and who you are when you get to higher altitudes. Pardon me a momentary...

  20. How to get started with nursing school?

    anonymurse replied to ravishinglylow's topic in Virginia Nursing

    Here's the whole thing in one package at VCU, which is probably the cleanest and neatest way to enter nursing: http://www.nursing.vcu.edu/program_tradbs.shtml One of the problems of VA community...

  21. wearing scrubs out in town?

    anonymurse replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

    Best idea I've seen (in an environment without a proper changing/locker room) is wearing scrubs a size or two too large over light street clothes. Put 'em on at work, take 'em off before going home....

  22. Pay rate for nursing assistants?

    anonymurse replied to FutureLatinaRN's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital hires nursing students with 40 hours of clinicals as NAs for a base rate of $7.10. Working weekend nights from 7p to 7a jacks that up by $2. Not much, but hours are 100% flexible (only had...

  23. Changing careers

    anonymurse replied to tex184's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I started nursing school at 52. Where besides in health care can a person get started in a decent career at our age right alongside kids who went into their prereqs right out of high school? One...

  24. About to graduate, but feeling demoralized...

    anonymurse replied to secondfiddle's topic in General Nursing

    If you didn't get a chance to do home health clinicals, try making the rounds with a home health nurse for a few days. I hated the whole idea of going into other folks' homes. I'm glad I didn't have...

  25. IV air bubble compensation

    anonymurse replied to JL123's topic in General Nursing

    http://nurstoon.com/comic37.html