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    New and looking for support

    P_RN replied to nysnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    IMHO you shouldn"t have been floated tat
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    shoes and sox or stockings

    P_RN replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I wear TEDS sometimes, but usually the ones with the hole in the toe, and the sox really didn't crawl as much. It works I guess, but the hole pressures my toe underneath. Maybe I need thicker socks...
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    Moving to Charleston South Carolina

    P_RN replied to Nikki22's topic in General Nursing

    Your best bet would be to contact MUSC directly. While I didn't work in Chas. I did work in Columbia for 22 years and the relocation assistance was on a person to person basis. Some got it, some...
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    Nurses just want everyone to have a foley!

    P_RN replied to MrsWampthang's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in a State Rehab facility we got a lot of CP and Closed head injury patients for evals. My "favorite" was the 40 year old lady with CP who had had a foley since she was in her teens!!...
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    what to say when the RN is contaminating the sterile forceps?

    P_RN replied to GingerSue's topic in General Nursing

    I have had a doc who wanted gowns, 4 or 5 suture removal kits, etc etc and then a complete occlusive xeroform and 2 ten pack 4 bys with elastoplast tape. I have had a doc who carried his own scissors...
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    Is this average?

    P_RN replied to EthnicBeauty's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    We got very close to the house loss when I was in Nursing School. The best advice I got was to ask for a forebearance where all we paid was the interest until I completed school. It's paid off now...
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    looking for guidelines for self scheduling

    P_RN replied to nurse8585's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah but this one is free
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    looking for guidelines for self scheduling

    P_RN replied to nurse8585's topic in General Nursing

    How are you doing your scheduling? 8h or 12 h? My best choice is an Excel or other spread sheet. Names on the left and 2 weeks worth of days and dates across the top. Do the every other weekends...
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    Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

    P_RN replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

    Does that mean I can't glow while charting?? Awwww and I was looking forward to it. ? Ooooooooooh I'm glowing even as we speak. And yes I too believe this is a bogus dx, but then they didn't as me did...
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    Yahoo! Don't have to wear a nursing cap for grad pics!!

    P_RN replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Nursing

    Somehow "scrubs" doesn't sound right with a (starched white) cap. I mislaid mine about 25 years ago and sometimes I miss the old gal. Kind of like the Honor Society pin that's long gone and I never...
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    Information on a skin cream

    P_RN replied to JeanettePNP's topic in General Nursing

    Call your pharmacy and double check. If it is incredibly expensive OTC sometimes the doc will rx for it or for a stronger
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    Information on a skin cream

    P_RN replied to JeanettePNP's topic in General Nursing

    i thought that was over the counter stuff. polysorb® hydrate (hydronic dry skin cream) availability:
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    FDA Proposes Labeling Changes to Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers

    P_RN replied to VickyRN's topic in Patient Medications

    And well needed! My baby sis (I'm in my 60s hint) is having a bilateral oopharectomy Jan 12th. Her doc told her to stop her Motrin on Jan 1. So dear sis tells me she'll be switching to IB after Jan...
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    Are all nurses that wear white dorks?

    P_RN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    The that :nurse:wearing all white is dorky isn't exactly :deadhorse but more like ROFLMAO x 3:roll :roll :roll Nurses wear clean clothes. Nurses wear comfortable clothes. Nurses have to...
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    RN's vs LAB

    P_RN replied to chaosRN's topic in General Nursing

    My first cousin was a MLT at St Vincent's in NYC. I was amazed at how different things work depending on the facility and the area of the country. Here RespTx does blood gases. There the lab does...
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    Question re POP backslabs

    P_RN replied to Djuna's topic in Orthopedic

    Well you have caught me at a loss for words. I haven't ever heard that term. What I expect is you're referring to what we call a posterior splint. It's used for the 1st 24-72 hours until the...
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    In Icu Are Is There A Preference For Whites

    P_RN replied to tammyg652's topic in MICU, SICU

    White uniforms, white chocolate, white underwear I remember them well. My coworkers....were my coworkers.I'm pretty sure we didn't have a problem. I'm pink, my best frend was cocoa, another friend...
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    Roll Call for all Military and VA Nurses and those considering the Service

    P_RN replied to RNPATL's topic in Government, Military

    Hi Kat. Here's a link to the abbreviations: https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/glossary-nursing-medical-degrees-certifications-113134.html And we have a UK specific forum also:...
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    Trouble c accents at work?

    P_RN replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    When y'all say accent are y'all speakin' about dialect too? Seems I can spread the molasses with the best'o them. I usually have no problem with most accents, except for a couple of Indian...
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    I Was Accepted Into Nursing school and now I'm so scared. I have more people telling

    P_RN replied to SCgirl07's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you just wonder what those people would think if you gave THEM advice on their daily business? Scared is good, it keeps us on our toes. We just have to stay this side of "panic". Panic isn't...
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    RN Refresher programs in MA???

    P_RN replied to KARENRNBOSTON's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Have you contacted the board of nursing to see what they have to offer? We have a couple of online sites in my state. You then go for a clinical I think 3 Saturdays. I'm a bit rusty myself, and my BON...
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    Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo immediately

    P_RN replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    prayers. don't know what i would do. my son is 3000 mi away and a mama's first instinct is to go to her child. traveling to mayo clinic in rochester, minn. this has some information about the...
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    Angry mom treated rotten in ER today

    P_RN replied to Purple Princess's topic in Emergency

    Going to the ER can be a humiliating experience. I'd only been to the ER one other time in my life-at my facility- but after I was out on medical disability-I had to go to another ER.....I had never...
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    RN's vs LAB

    P_RN replied to chaosRN's topic in General Nursing

    Down south we have a saying....well bless his heart..... It's kind of hard to explain but it's related to the "look" and to the "oh really?" It's putting the ball in the other person's court without...
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    Dog and Pony Show --A Nursing School Rant!!

    P_RN replied to Ohmygosh's topic in General Nursing

    Evolve These tests and HESI are now run by Elsevier as of Jan 2006. I wager you are not the only students to get shafted. Do you have a credit card you could put your tuition on? Contact the school...