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  1. Woody I broke my ankle at thecountry club ice rink that the ice had been poorly maintained. They were certainly covered by public law. I was also using their skates, I wonder if it had been...
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    lpn

    You would need to contact the Wisconsin Board for their opinion. That is a touchy issue and every case is evaluated on its
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    Relocation to Columbia as a new grad

    Sorry I just caught up with my forums. Palmettohealth.org has the wages for a new RN at 18.08 (I think) and it looks like they have a good variety of units to pick from. I worked for them for many...
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    Embarrassing moment at work

    I just HAVE to say it: If this is the most embarrassing bendover story you have, just wait, it's bound to be surpassed by an even more embarrassing
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    new to allnurses

    Welcome to the family here!!! There is also a specific UK forum for questions we here in the US have no idea how to answer. Look around, have fun, post a
  6. Minneapolis I believe. Here's a tv station news account
  7. Tiny reminder here; allnurses also has UK, Canadian and Australia/NZ forums. And though I love visiting the UK, those short daylight hours in the winter would kill
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    How are you spending your retirement?

    retirement was such a wonderful thing to look forward to. then right upside the head it stopped me in my tracks (or maybe that should be back!) working one day, can't move the next. for the first...
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    Spinal Fusion q's

    My dd had cervical fusion 6 weeks ago and you'd never know she had anything. Scar is almost gone and she feels great. Y'all remember though that allnurses cannot give medical advice
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    So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    This would have made a better story on the NBC nightly news the other evening. And yes I have worked under those conditions-that's because I am perpetually an INSANE Cherry Ames. I have had staff call...
  11. I believe what I read somewhere is that there was a tear just inside her rectum that allowed the less attached small bowel to be pulled through. I have also heard of other incidents with hair...
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    help with resume

    I've always started with the first person and then kind of drifted to the ambiguous 1920-1924 Worked at the Doodleburg facility as Assistant Doodle Duties: Facilitating the smooth running of all...
  13. i moved it here because i honestly didn't know how to
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    Old School

    I too have seen "nurse the machine" too often. I've seen a nurse try to put a #16 in a shocky patient, when a 22 would get some hydration in her in the meanwhile. Did your patient
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    "The Jesus Factor"

    I am a Christian. That's it. I know what I believe and I am there to listen and answer questions not to proselytize, convert, browbeat, evangelize or otherwise force converson. That is not our...
  16. http://www.georgetownuniversityhospital.org/body.cfm?id=1483 at Georgetown http://www.nebraskamed.com/transplant/smallbowel_transplant_program.cfm Nebraska Medical Center...
  17. Somewhere back in my mind I read that it is much easier to take a block of organs (who are familiar with each other) than to introduce just 1 new
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    resumes-do you put your license number on them

    In my state all you have to do is go to the Labor, Licensing and Registration Nursing page and enter as much or as little information as you know. Names, license, and home town pop right up. There's...
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    Discontinuing Femoral Nerve blocks

    Is there a great difference in those and in pulling a scalene block or an
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    I'm concerned for my friend's child....

    My baby was post mature and didn't walk until 15 months, he had not teeth until 20 months and didn't talk until 22 months. When he sat hesquatted down with his lower legs to the sides and his feet...
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    Any outlandish therapy, you've thought up?

    Re Sats: I have occassionally taken the Nelcor finger tip stickie and placed it on a forehead or around the cartalage of an ear to get a good reading. I've done the mouth nasal cannula many times....
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    Heads up: NBC nightly news tonight

    Well Brian's not on Lester Holt is....I guess I can watch it any
  23. No you don't need to keep the state a secret. You need to contact thte board of medicine and the board of nursing and relate what you have heard. And you can ask them if what you heard has been...
  24. Let's move this over to international
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    Is nursing bad for your waist line?

    Stress eating.....and all this time I've been blaming those darned Pepsi and snack machines and the way they give you that come hither