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semstr

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

    semstr replied to Rapheal's topic in General Nursing

    yes, that is an important part of my

  2. Nursing and Piercings?

    semstr replied to Wuiteroz's topic in General Nursing

    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

    semstr replied to cokie's topic in General Nursing

    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....

    semstr replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    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. why do some nurses forget that they were once students?

    semstr replied to geleesa's topic in General Students

    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. why do some nurses forget that they were once students?

    semstr replied to geleesa's topic in General Students

    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. why do some nurses forget that they were once students?

    semstr replied to geleesa's topic in General Students

    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.

    semstr replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    "night nurse" from Simply

  9. Functional / Team Nursing

    semstr replied to EMTPTORN's topic in General 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?

    semstr replied to delirium's topic in General Nursing

    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 $$$

    semstr replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    Must tell my hubby immediately!

  12. Nurses & Retirement $$$

    semstr replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

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

  13. I Got The Nicu Job!!!

    semstr replied to fergus51's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats, Tracy and good

  14. Still encountering racism on the job

    semstr replied to ucandoit's topic in General Nursing

    Farsi is spoken in

  15. Admirable qualities

    semstr replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    good nerves and all the qualities you summed up

  16. Questions asked by Nurse Recruiter...what is the norm?

    semstr replied to funnygirl_rn's topic in General Nursing

    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

    semstr replied to Dayray's topic in Ob/Gyn

    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

    semstr replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    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

    semstr replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    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. Problem based teaching (PBT)

    semstr posted a topic in General Nursing

    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)

    semstr replied to semstr's topic in General Nursing

    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. How have you dealt with language barriers?

    semstr replied to mattsmom81's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    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

    semstr replied to dianacs's topic in General Nursing

    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!

    semstr replied to Sleepyeyes's topic in General Nursing

    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. Are you afraid to approach minority staff members? WHY?

    semstr replied to LasVegasRN's topic in General Nursing

    sleepeyes: