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    Normal interview questions/process?

    P_RN replied to TallRNBB's topic in Men in Nursing

    SHREW ↑ Offense taken I'm
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    Sad conversation today

    P_RN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if it's reversable or not. I sure wish it were. What I have done for Mama is write a series of short essays about how she met Daddy. About each of us girls, all the pets I can remember,...
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    Hit all time low

    P_RN replied to JentheRN05's topic in General Nursing

    Jen....am I looking in a mirror? It sure seems like it. Meds help but they don't work forever and sometimes they need tweaking, kind of like a '68 Chevrolet. What I would do is quit when I felt...
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    Failed Nclex

    P_RN replied to Maltese2000's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    https://allnurses.com/forums/f197/new-revised-first-tip-suzannes-plan-195774.html It's in pale purple at least on my screen. I almost missed seeing
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    Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    P_RN replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    While you are waiting and watching out for the perfect unexperienced NP job, you need to be looking for and working in an RN job. You'd be totally surprised at what you don't know. People don't...
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    LPNs glorified Techs?

    P_RN replied to mommie2bodie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Glorified Techs? NO WAY. Valuable NURSES
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    Took Job on Telemetry Floor...what's Telemetry???

    P_RN replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    MM remind me what degree you have? I'd be inclined not to take on something that would take so much catching up. I think the comment that it is just not a good fit would be appropriate and no I...
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    Columbia Scrub Store

    P_RN replied to Good Doogie's topic in General Nursing

    Have you looked at Adams bookstore on Assembly St? If you are looking for student uniform scrubs they have to be ordered through the school...they will tell you the vendor then-and only then. You can...
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    Question for "seasoned" nurses - how do you control your emotions?

    P_RN replied to my3kids's topic in General Nursing

    Seasoned-eh. I guess my salt and pepper hair qualifies me. The word control is a good one here. I've read here that nurses must get HARD to be able to work with some patients. Well I might get a...
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    Guess the mispronounced medical term

    P_RN replied to EricJRN's topic in General Nursing

    p-nut butterballs =phenobarbitals skeezer=seizure done fell out =fainted or had a skeezer. We once had a family group gather around a patient's bed to be with him in his last moments HUH? Oh...
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    rn

    P_RN replied to ScubaMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    DIversion is "shorthand" for diverting medications-mainly narctoics-from patient use to your own purpose. In other words stealing
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    How do you keep your uniforms whit as can be?

    P_RN replied to mycatmax's topic in General Nursing

    i got this from the orighnal heloise back in the 70's: a medical assistant gets whites even whiter by adding 1½ cups of cascade powder and 1½ cups of bleach to hot water and then soaks snow- or...
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    Cocky :(

    P_RN replied to KeechieSan's topic in General Nursing

    you don't sound cocky. you sound self assured. if you can trace the source ask them if they'd define cocky vs self assured. i'll tell you about a young lpn we had many years ago. he was attractive...
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    Which courses to take to be able to go abroad to work

    P_RN replied to princess122583's topic in International Nursing

    Moved to International
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    heparin drip mistake! what would you do?

    P_RN replied to youngever's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see a heparin error here assuming that the heparin was given at the ordered dose. What was the concentration of the heparin and what was the ordered dose? Was the saline ordered or did you...
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    Mandatory 12 hour shifts

    P_RN replied to melissasrn's topic in General Nursing

    It is a lot easier to schedule FTEs when you have only 12h shifts. Either the staff person is there or they're off. Period. Now as far as what it does to the human body I will just say it about...
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    ran out of O2

    P_RN replied to jenna_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I've been spoiled with wall o2 and the very small hand carried ones Rt uses when assisting with
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    Carpaject!!!

    P_RN replied to smwhitson's topic in General Nursing

    I do believe in the adage when in doubt, don't. Think about it, if you have to use a filter needle to feel safe, why not just do a waste and get an intact one. The metal ones were called tubex...
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    Ventilating with BVM

    P_RN replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    In all my years NO ONE has ever instructed me in exactly how to use an ambu. Trial and error I got it, but when you get painful thumbs you might just want someone else to take over, I'd much rather...
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    Hindsight is 20/20

    P_RN replied to maggijo's topic in General Nursing

    I always "wanted" to be a nurse. My ideal was Cherry Ames and her white cap with a single black stripe, crisp white uniform and clinic shoes. Hey that's the way it was in the 50's. I started, I...
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    dcotor asked me to leave room

    P_RN replied to jam2007's topic in General Nursing

    I've been in the same situation several times. Once it was (I found out later) the patient wanted to tell the doc to stay away from his girlfriend. Another was they wanted to discuss duck hunting...
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    Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    P_RN replied to Fairlythere's topic in General Nursing

    WHat are her meds....thyroid med missed maybe..... has she got a UTI, has she got a bottle of Jack she can't
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    Is this normal?

    P_RN replied to tigress_8207's topic in General Nursing

    Where are you located? You need to call the health department or the police or someone. This is just mean to these old
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    BSN the only "professional"??

    P_RN replied to karenp2358's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Taking off my cap and stripe, I believe I would have had to have a sincere "word of prayer" with Ms Intake Nurse.....then pop her one.......not violently now......just memorable. I will say the...
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    Is an LNA the same as an LPN???

    P_RN replied to Samma's topic in General Nursing

    Well live and learn: http://www.nh.gov/nhes/elmi/licertoccs/nurselna.htm I wonder how much of a to-do this will