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    Healthier Living Thread Part IV

    UM Review RN replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Enjoy, Blue! You're going to have a wonderful time! Muffie, you're doing great. It really keeps me on track to hear that. Tweety, good for you for passing up the goodies. I had a "moment" yesterday....
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    Suicide and its effects, it sucks!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine has a 15 year old daughter. She says her daughter was pulled into the office at school and quizzed about her relationship with another girl, age 16. Apparently the 16-year-old was...
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    Unfinished tasks from previous shift?

    UM Review RN replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    Docs get mad all the time for things other people did or didn't do -- lab, X-ray, pharmacy, whatever - and we wind up taking the flack for it. It gets old. The point is, the doc has no right to yell...
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    Healthier Living Thread Part IV

    UM Review RN replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    ER, I hope your cook-in went great, sounded like you were having a good time. Zoe, the Boofoo scale is so very Boofoo because it keeps a history on up to four people. So I can get into everyone's...
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    Healthier Living Thread Part IV

    UM Review RN replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Nope, no taker on the scratchy throat, muffie. No loss, no gain is good too. I'm noticing that I'm the only person in the house who's using the Boofoo scale. Hmmm.... Well, whatever, I'm quite content...
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    Suicide and its effects, it sucks!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    I see. Thanks for clarifying, nurseangel. Tragedy all around is how I see
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    Suicide and its effects, it sucks!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, I'm not seeing where survivors are "putting down the dead." I'm seeing people in a great deal of emotional pain and turmoil because of another's suicide. Seems to me that they would not be...
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    Nat'l Data Base of Nursing Quality Indicators

    UM Review RN replied to willie03's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know; can you give us a
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    Things you wish you could say to your co-workers...

    UM Review RN replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Bravo! Worth
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    Real People Denied Healthcare

    UM Review RN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Obviously something needs to be done, and quickly. Hopefully the lawmakers will understand that laws like this are not serving the people who elected
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    the vultures are circling

    UM Review RN replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    Omg, I cannot imagine being half out of it after a surgery and zonked on pain meds and then having two DRUG REPS assess my site??!!! Please report this to Risk Management. Your supervisor is wrong,...
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    Things you wish you could say to your co-workers...

    UM Review RN replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, it is not okay to talk trash about me behind my back. One, it will get back to me. Two, what goes around, comes around, and it will eventually bite you in the butt. I've seen it happen to...
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    1st day off orientation was HORRIBLE

    UM Review RN replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a day I had last week. I promise, you will be able to cope better with time. Some days will be great, others won't, but you will get better and it will get easier. I work evenings now and...
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    ethical dilemma....nurse lied.

    UM Review RN replied to snowflake123's topic in General Nursing

    Not an urban legend, unfortunately. Happened in Miami, but I cannot find the article itself, only a reference to
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    Least Healthy States

    UM Review RN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Do you suppose it's because the South has a greater percentage of elderly and
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    If Money Were No Problem.........

    UM Review RN replied to mammaoftwo's topic in General Nursing

    I'd go for the RN for a couple of reasons: 1. Greater job flexibility - you can work more places as an RN. 2. The pay is better. In some cases, I see hospital LPNs doing much the same work as an RN...
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    Healthier Living Thread Part IV

    UM Review RN replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    GM Tweety, Muffie, Er and all, Just had lunch - one bowl of fish chowder this time. Ate breakfast early - oatmeal and coffee - and I'm bringing some frozen meals to work with me for the rest of the...
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    do you ever have "stupid" days at work?

    UM Review RN replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Oopsie. No-LINE lens bifocals, of course. That'll teach me to try to make sense before I have my coffee, now won't
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    Erwin Technical School

    UM Review RN replied to furturenurse's topic in Florida Nursing

    I was told that Irwin is kinda expensive. While I don't know how reliable that information is, you might want to compare prices with different schools as well as the program. Best of luck to
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    do you ever have "stupid" days at work?

    UM Review RN replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I just figured it was early-onset Alzheimers. Who
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    do you ever have "stupid" days at work?

    UM Review RN replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    All the time. It's usually stupid stuff, like I reach over a patient's bedside table to give a pill, and in one swift motion, dump both the water and the water pitcher on the bed. Of course, by now Pt...
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    Healthier Living Thread Part IV

    UM Review RN replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Good luck on the test, Sarah, sometimes a little R&R is exactly what you need. Muffie, it is amazing how different a few days can make you feel, isn't it. Hi Zoe! I might've overdone it a bit...
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    Would you give away a semester's worth of notes???

    UM Review RN replied to CiCigirl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Oh, I see. My notes were different; they were simply the class notes without any test results mixed in. In fact our teachers would sometimes tell other students that if they missed anything in class...
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    $10,000 penalty if you leave the ICU

    UM Review RN replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    If you sign a contract like that, you give up the only power that nurses really have -- the power to walk out the door if the conditions become intolerable. Things can change hugely in two years. Even...
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    Healthier Living Thread Part IV

    UM Review RN replied to Tweety's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Interesting article, Blue, thanks for sharing. I scanned and read parts of it to DH, so I'm sure he'll get thinking about it. Muffie, twenty minutes without a break would probably kill me at this...