No Stars In My Eyes

Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN

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    What is Nux Vomica? State Board Questions From the Turn of the 20thCentury: An Era Gone By

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    I have the entire course of a mail-order nurses-training course from 1936, presented in 53 Lessons, by The Chicago School of Nursing. Each lesson is followed by "Test Questions For Self-Examination"....
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    New Grad Nurse in LTC, frustrated and need advice.

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to HannahFaith97's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    LTC's are their very own kind of hell. Didn't used to be, but that was a LONG time ago. If someone offered me 100% higher wage to do that job again, FAT CHANCE, I'd say! It is totally absurd for...
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Davey Do's topic in Psychiatric

    Davey and Jacob look so mild and innocent standing there with their hands folded.
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Davey Do's topic in Psychiatric

    ReRun, or plagerismization from the Diary of D.Do? Is it Davey, or is it
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    Happy Holidays!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    wondern, I love Will Ferrell, he is such a totally and completely fearless
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    Happy Holidays!

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    And may 2018 be MUCH better and nicer than 2017!
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    Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Davey Do's topic in Psychiatric

    The page I was sent to, via your link...said it did not exist, and yet...there were some things listed, none of which I clicked on. Hmmm, there was a lot of reading on a page that doesn't exist! It...
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    May the Nurse's Force Be With You

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    'standing on the correct side of the needle' ? I've never thought or heard of that one before! . . . that's
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    May the Nurse's Force Be With You

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I love giving shots, too! I worked a flu shot clinic at a big box store (and grrr, the RN I was working with did not even BOTHER to read anything about how we were to do the paperwork or any of that...
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    May the Nurse's Force Be With You

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the mid 1970's I worked in a small hospital just outside a big city. I was the med nurse.We had a patient who was an FBI agent. I don't remember what he was there for, but he was in a lot of...
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    Drug seeking- something to ponder

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Nsg is an art's topic in Pain Management

    Everyone is guilty unless proven innocent by random, mandatory checks, and even then they are under suspicion because WE CAN DRUG TEST YOU AT ANY TIME, just
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    What's your best 'Nurse Hack'?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to KimasaurusRex's topic in General Nursing

    Your other hacks were great, too, but THIS one is BRILLIANT! If I only knew this back then . . . WOW! Adding two of my own: Newborn-size disposable diapers are really good for draining heel wounds,...
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    The Not So "Nursey" Things...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to HCPSRMA's topic in School

    Now, that's one delicate little princess who needs a class in Common
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    Tryptophan and IBS: The Connection

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    I was on Levbid for many years, and it worked well. Then it seems many pharmacies quit stocking it, I could not fill the prescription written for me by my Gastroenterologist. Levbid fell out of favor...
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    The Not So "Nursey" Things...

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to HCPSRMA's topic in School

    That's exactly what I was thinking of posting myself, when I read the thread right above yours! Thanks for explaining it so
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    What's your best 'Nurse Hack'?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to KimasaurusRex's topic in General Nursing

    Stethoscope, you mean? Gosh, I hope so; I just spent 30 seconds thinking, "the ear part? what ear part?" I've been up too long, my brain seems to be closing down for the
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    Thread for Trolls

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    My guess is better than
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    Frustrated Patient

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to jojomarie26's topic in General Nursing

    She may very well do all the work she claims, but does not have the education required to INTERPRET the results. That, OP, is outside of your scope of
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    A Feminist Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    Got several paragraphs into the article and thought one word:
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    What's your best 'Nurse Hack'?

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to KimasaurusRex's topic in General Nursing

    Don't think this is a 'hack', just a warning from the voice of experience. If you have a tube feeding to do, and cough medicine is part of the meds you are to give, make double sure you've got ALL the...
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    What do you think of 12 hour shifts

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to RNattie's topic in General Nursing

    For me, night shift's a killer. When I worked 8's, I always did 3-11's. So, I could stay up late AND sleep late! Or get stuff done in the daytime and still work. Of course I was single, and that made...
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    This is a new one

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    She started it! Make her stay on HER
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    This is a new one

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Not meaning to sully with my fairly off-topic post. . . sorry for the
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    This is a new one

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Ok, this isn't about a school kid, but I just have to pipe in here: my 70 year old sister has "been doing a lot of reading" and said "I don't think I'm going to take the flu vaccine this year."...
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    Those Overly Exaggerating Nursing Stories

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Cvepo's topic in General Nursing

    I would've loved to have a button pin that said this, to wear when I worked at the hospital. But then I realized . . . management probably would've made me take it