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  1. Nurses, do you routinely do beds and baths?

    yes, that is an important part of my
  2. Nursing and Piercings?

    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...
  3. Cheating In School

    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...
  4. Pneumatic tube systems....

    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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    "night nurse" from Simply
  9. Functional / Team Nursing

    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...
  10. Anybody work in a religious hospital?

    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,...
  11. Nurses & Retirement $$$

    Must tell my hubby immediately!
  12. Nurses & Retirement $$$

    The benies might be great in at a government job, but you have to work till
  13. I Got The Nicu Job!!!

    Congrats, Tracy and good
  14. Still encountering racism on the job

    Farsi is spoken in
  15. Admirable qualities

    good nerves and all the qualities you summed up
  16. MeL D, I am even smaller barely 5 F and weith under 100 pounds- never had trouble getting a job. What about all these petite Asian nurses? Like Nightingale stated: &%&/($(/ to this
  17. Bottles after 3 hours

    that would mean instant kick-out here! that is something we did 25-30 years ago! No healthy newborn will dry out in the first 24 hours after birth! No bottle in the mouth of a newborn when mum doesn't...
  18. Dementia/rape trauma syndrome

    Wow, how awful Country! Although I have to tell you, with real Alzheimer patients, Validation hardly ever works. that is the difference between "physilogical" dementia and the illness Alzheimer (don't...
  19. Dementia/rape trauma syndrome

    Did you try to do the Validation-method from Naomi Feil with her? You'll need trained people for that though, but it always work. Naturally, I have been caring for a lot of old people who survived WW2...
  20. hi you all, Maybe you noticed (or not, LOL) that I haven't been posting quite a lot here lately, well, that is due to a very heavy work- and education-load. I am in the middle of a course for EBT and...
  21. Problem based teaching (PBT)

    So, maybe it is not like a lot of papers and studies say, that every where in the USA and Canada, nursing is based on this kind of teaching. I was wondering about this anyway, but hey no answer is an...
  22. Mattsmom, I know what you're talking about! Just don't have much time at the moment to answer you question. The only thing I can say, it not the problem of a nursingprogram to teach your students...
  23. Culturally sensitive nursing--questions

    Hi, there, yes Madeleine Leininger was the first nursing theorist, who put culture diversity and caring on paper and did a lot of fieldstudies. Nowadays, there are quite a few others, who have...
  24. Share your BEST NURSING WEBSITES!

    ok, I've got alot sites I really like, here a few of them. (mind you few of them are in German of course): http://www.pflegenet.com http://www.nursingnet.org http://www.tcns.org http://www.icn.ch...
  25. sleepeyes: