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  1. In need for a good support shoes

    Different things will work for different people, but what I've found is best for me is Skechers Shape-ups. They will do nothing to get you into shape but the cushion-y heel is perfect for me. I wore Danskos for a while but developed plantar fasciit...
  2. Pharmacist-turned-RN?

    I am a pharmacy tech turned RN. I love nursing much more than pharmacy, but it was a step up for me in education, status, and pay. If it is patient care you are wanting more of, you might look into PA school.
  3. Can we recommend a medication to a doctor to prescribe?

    I've had residents try to send post-op patients home with only Tylenol. Some of them have not gotten DEA numbers and don't want to track down their upper-level to do the scripts for them. This is where the "patient advocate" part of nursing comes i...
  4. Human Patient Simulators

    We had a very high-tech, expensive human simulator at our school. It was so precious they barely let us touch it. :lol
  5. My dad spent the last 2 months of his life, save the 10 days he was home on hospice, in the hospital. I am forever grateful for the time my kids got to spend with him there. They were 13, 11, and 6 at the time. It was summer, and we visited every ...
  6. OU Medical Center

    Starting pay is close to what the Commuter stated. It is comparable to other hospitals in the area. OUMC is a private, for-profit hospital owned by HCA. It is located on the OU Health Science campus, but it is not actually part of the University....
  7. No rapid response for a DNR?

    Completely agree! This is the kind of problem that makes end of life care so bad in our culture.
  8. What if the Boston bomber was your pt

    We get prisoners at our facility regularly. Most are just people who got into trouble due to substance abuse. (Which makes them no different from many of our non-incarcerated patients!) I have had a few truly evil inmates, though. One was a seria...
  9. Best Hallucinations Thread

    Not exactly a hallucination, but I had a funny thing with an ETOH withdrawal patient recently. I touched his arm and he flung off my hand and said, "Get the f$&@ off of me!" I said, "Hey!" and he looked very startled to see me standing there and...
  10. What would YOU do?

    Maybe she is just an incredibly fastidious person, and after washing her hands, she used paper towels to thoroughly dry the sink. Or she keeps a small bottle of hand sanitizer in her pocket and used it just before you saw her.
  11. Have you ever lost it with a patient?

    I wouldn't say that I lost it, but I really chewed out someone I caught smoking in her room. And when I was done, the charge nurse called the cops on her, and they came in and chewed her out. And confiscated her smokes and the RX drugs (not in her n...
  12. If you default on a student loan, the government can garnish your wages and confiscate your tax refund. They do not have to go to court and get a judgement against you as other creditors would. It's what you agreed to when you signed the promissory n...
  13. Intermediate Care Unit assessments

    My hospital has a little different set-up for stepdown. We have several stepdown beds on each nursing unit. The ratio for stepdown is 2-3:1. (Ratio for the floor is 5:1.) We do total care and don't have techs for stepdown. We do have a unit secretar...
  14. These just seems so gross to me

    My mind says gross and unsanitary, but realistically, **** gets on everything in our rooms. The floors, the walls, the bed frames and mattresses. These just get the normal cleaning from housekeeping between patients. I guess that's really not that mu...
  15. Why is it important to know patient's insurance info?

    I think if this were the case, the OP's preceptor would have explained herself. Her comment of, "you'll figure it out eventually" makes me think she has some preconceived notions about uninsured or Medicaid patients.
  16. Patients overstaying their welcome in hospitals

    This is a common occurrence where I work. Nothing as dramatic as a year, but we have patients who have no need for acute care but have to stay for weeks due to no insurance coverage. We see a lot of osteomyelitis and endocarditis that require many we...
  17. I think it's funny that several people have said they would let students do anything but a foley. I'll bet most students are more conscientious about sterility than a lot of experienced nurses.
  18. Question from a nursing student

    If the nurse doesn't have anything to do, definitely go help out the cna. When I was a new grad the things I felt most I'll- prepared for we're things like bathing patients, transfers, helping people ambulate, etc. Let's see, what else? Don't empty ...
  19. Same patient's over and over again

    Eh, this is just one of those things you can't take to heart as a nurse. Sometimes when I see a familiar name on the board I just have to sigh and shake my head and then go give them their meds. What else can you do?
  20. Nursing Student Drug Tests

    I'm pretty sure all nursing programs do dome sort of drug testing. The facilities where they do clinicals require it, as well as criminal background checks and immunization records. Most healthcare facilities will require these things as conditions o...
  21. Percocet while breastfeeding?

    Most drugs pass through breastmilk and get to baby. That doesn't necessarily mean they will cause harmful effects. You have to use your resources to establish whether a particular drug has been deemed safe, moderately safe, hazardous, etc in lactatio...
  22. Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    You're kidding right? Patient education is a huge part of what pharmacists do in community pharmacy practice. This debate is such a tempest in a teapot!
  23. Prankster patients

    When I was in nursing school, I had a clinical day in a dialysis unit. The nurse I was working with called me over to a patient and asked me to check his legs for edema. I pulled up his blanket and poked one of his legs and it felt really weird. Then...
  24. Become a successful Nurse if you hate A&P?

    I think you may find it more interesting after you get into nursing school and start learning the pathophysiology of disease. That's where you take all the boring stuff you memorized in A & P and apply it to how you care for patients. :)
  25. How did you find out about allnurses.com?

    Quite a few years ago, I posted on a breastfeeding message board. Someone there linked to a thread here where a few people were making some less than informed comments. A big inter-board dust-up ensued. I wasn't even a nurse at the time, but I starte...