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yes, that is an important part of my job.

My students have all kinds of piercings, ears (multiple), nose, eyebrow, lips, tongue, between their teeth, navel and I guess other places too. They also have all kinds of haircolouring, from bright red, pink, green to blue. Some have tattoos visible on their arms or hands. No, I personally don't like it looking like a christmas tree, but times have changed. My own daughter looks pretty weird to me with her pink hair and nose and navelpiercing, but well, I looked pretty weird to my mum with my "big hair" looooooonggggg time ago! I hope,they are going to be good nurses, no matter how many piercings, tattoos or haircolour they have.

sharing notes on lecutres is not cheating in my eyes. There always were and always will be students who cheat. When nobody notices, they did a good job on the cheating too! When I notice someone cheating his/ her test is automatically negative. He/ she may take the test once more under strict regulations. But, even for those who cheated and nobody noticed it, when the verbal exams come, there is nobody else but him-herself!

love it! We even had a small elevator-system in one of the hospitals in Holland. you could put one of those small crates (you know, similar to the ones you can put in you car for your ´groceries) in it. The normal tubes are great too though! But I have to say, we are not alowed to put blood in it anylonger, becuase quite a few tests were broken.

Wow, Carol, I am really relieved! breaks my heart to think of all those bonbons getting drunk in your martini! LOL Heather, please one Spritzer white for me and another for Carol, thanks! And put some nuts on the bar.

Holy Mary and Joseph, girl you are not going to put these delicious, precious Godivas into your martini, now do you? Be glad, to walz a real good Spritzer over to you, though. edited to write glad instead of glas.

geleesa, I do hope you won't forget it yourself in a few years. ( I know what I am talking about since I am an educator over here and have had 100 of students complaining.........a few years later, I hear complaints about them from the new students!)

"night nurse" from Simply Red

Well, sorry for your instructor, but team nursing is still done here in most hospitals. And I personally like it a lot! First of all, when your unit (up to 15 patients, depends on the speciality of course) is "done", you always look at the other units whether you can help there. And the other way round, when something comes up, there are always others of the team to back you up. You know a lot of patients, so when you are on nightduty, not everybody is "new" to you. Normally a unit is upped with 2 RN, 2 Lpn and a few students (we still have the "old-fashioned" diploma course too!) I worked the functional nursing system too. Still know a few wards, where they work like that. For them it is ok. I never liked it! One RN is on the admin. site the whole day, phoning, making appointments etc. Another or two others do the "real nursing" on the patients, bathing, change the dressings etc. Staffnurse is there and organizes all the other things and goes on the big rounds with the doctors.

I was trained in a catholic hospital and worked in a few others afterwards. In all these hospitals, management was "worldly", simply because there aren't enough nuns around any longer. The few left, work on the ward and as with other collegues, some good, some bad. Policies regarding anti-baby-pills, abortions and tube-ligatures were different in all of them. Most didn't do abortions, but the tube-ligatures were done and all doctors gave the pill. No praying over loudspeaker at all. Once a day a priest came with the communion for those patients, who wished to get it.

Must tell my hubby immediately! LOL

The benies might be great in at a government job, but you have to work till 65.

Congrats, Tracy and good luck!

Farsi is spoken in Iran.

good nerves and all the qualities you summed up yourself.