DutchgirlRN

DutchgirlRN ASN, RN

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  1. Anyone CLEP outta Biology?

    DutchgirlRN replied to Fancy Face's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I did and got a B. I did study for 6 months before taking the test. Good

  2. Going back......I feel old!

    DutchgirlRN replied to Bennie44's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    :yeahthat: From one oldie student to another! I'm 52 working on BSN. Got my RN at age

  3. Wife is Driving Me Crazy with SMOKING - VENT

    DutchgirlRN replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Elmpark are you married? How long? Have you ever been married? I've been married for 32 years and it hasn't all been wine & roses but it has been worth the struggle, without a doubt and we have...

  4. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat::clphnds:

  5. Tilt Table Observations

    DutchgirlRN posted a topic in Radiology

    I went to my first tilt table yesterday. It was not at all what I had expected. Knowing that the patients sometimes pass out, I envisioned the tilt table being a test that would put them in some sort...

  6. Tilt Table Observations

    DutchgirlRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Radiology

    Wonderful Post Di and from one oldie to another, very well said

  7. Wife is Driving Me Crazy with SMOKING - VENT

    DutchgirlRN replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree 100%, as for the rest, I don't presume to know what she or he may be thinking or if she may be depressed, etc...I was referring to the poster who thought it may be time to give up. I say...

  8. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    I admire that, that is something I usually don't do at the time, hence you're in hospice and I'm not. We each have our niche. Thank God! My co-workers say "if you want something done, esp if you think...

  9. Wife is Driving Me Crazy with SMOKING - VENT

    DutchgirlRN replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Whoa..... it's too easy to say "I give

  10. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly leslie, that's my point. I agree

  11. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    It appeared to me from the OP that this was the first time the bil had visited since the MVA. This bil was not known to the OP'er. I feel he "crossed" the line when he stripped the patient and when he...

  12. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    Wat leuk! en gooet gedaan...Nog een Nederlandse verpleegster! Veel Liefs Van DutchgirlRN :redbeathe Send me a PM message. I think we have to speak English

  13. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    wow, he had alot of nerve and obviously an inferiority complex. i hope you erased it and proudly wrote yours back in. the amount of education one has does not a good nurse

  14. Wife is Driving Me Crazy with SMOKING - VENT

    DutchgirlRN replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in Nurses Recovery

    i don't know what to say except that "i'm sorry". my dh was a non compliant diabetic with an ldl that wouldn't even register. all of his labs were off. he was diagnosed with prostate ca and suddenly...

  15. New to IR

    DutchgirlRN replied to YanRN's topic in Radiology

    truly, many times i've been bored. it comes and goes. some days are very busy, some are very slow. i have had to come up with time worthy things to do when times are slow. i was told i could bring...

  16. Iv starts for CT and MRI

    DutchgirlRN replied to "NEWKID" in RAD's topic in Radiology

    welcome to allnurses! i start all of the iv's for ct's and mri's and i've never had a tech complain about how the iv was secured but then again i am the one who dc's all the iv's. occasionally when...

  17. RN and nuclear medicine

    DutchgirlRN replied to opradiva's topic in Radiology

    I am an RN who has worked in Nuc Med. I was trained to work there when one of the Nuc Med techs went on maternity leave and they could not find another Nuc Med tech, not even through an agency. I was...

  18. Q for nurses who get paid per visit/admission

    DutchgirlRN replied to wonderbee's topic in Home Health

    We got a $25 bonus for visits over 25 miles round trip. Every single field nurse quit within a month of going per visit. The owner realized that per visit does not adequately compensate the nurses...

  19. Questions between 75 and 265

    DutchgirlRN replied to myfairyprincess's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    In this age of instant everything I wonder if NCLEX wasn't less stress when 750 questions were mandatory over 2 days with paper and pencil and the results arrived by US Mail in about 6 weeks. All we...

  20. Online RN-BSN question

    DutchgirlRN replied to pr_angie's topic in Online Distance Learning

    :wlcmggrp:to allnurses! [color=#48d1cc]i am in the process of trying to clep statistics and then history and will probably be going through excelsior. i went through their program for my rn when they...

  21. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    Nor should they be allowed to occur in an ICU. Which irrate family member has a gun in his pocket? If you don't think it can happen, it can. We had a father who came in the ICU and shot the stepfather...

  22. Family members that work your nerves!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    OMG! I would be seeing red :redlight: I would have called security and then the supervisor, do an SOE and make sure everything is charted. What became of this incident? What an idiot. Gives nurses a...

  23. Watery Brown Discharge

    DutchgirlRN replied to scribblerpnp's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What is a "wonky" period? That's a new one on me. A fistula is a connection between an organ, vessel, or intestines and another structure. A fistula can be caused by surgery, an injury or an...

  24. Tilt Table Observations

    DutchgirlRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Radiology

    Thanks Di and I'm glad your CTA was 100%! Our scanner is a 64 slice, I hear there are now 128 (?) slice scanners and even faster. We are currently in the process of putting in a new MRI at the...

  25. Watery Brown Discharge

    DutchgirlRN replied to scribblerpnp's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was thinking, an age related (menopause) normal variant. The brown watery discharge more than likely would be a watery discharge containing a small amt of old blood. Hard to guess