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  1. Nurses Past Their Prime

    rita359 replied to dialysis12041999's topic in General Nursing

    Don't believe it. She cannot be talking about someone who is only 42. You are just coming into your prime. Think she is talking about someone younger than myself but including everyone over whatever...

  2. Nurses Past Their Prime

    rita359 replied to dialysis12041999's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure where to begin. How do you know age has anything to do with not being able to cut it. I don't know how many young things I've seen who can't cut it and end up leaving soon after...

  3. Charting Issues that Really Bug Me!!!

    rita359 replied to al7139's topic in General Nursing

    I think some of this is lack of education when new forms are introduced. Forms just seem to show up. There isn't even written examples on bulletin boards on how to use the form. Example would be...

  4. admission assessments

    rita359 replied to gigi77's topic in General Nursing

    Policy is that pictures are taken on admission and weekly for any decubs. Skin problems that develope while pt is an inpatient usually is found on assessments or aides call attention to the

  5. Moving Out and Working Part-time

    rita359 replied to NewTexasRN's topic in General Nursing

    You can work part time and make it and probably

  6. Do you think you could pass now?

    rita359 replied to suanna's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know if I would pass NCLEX but took med surg certifying exam after being out of school for 27 years and passed with a decent score. It is a similar type exam but not as extensive as it is just...

  7. What if men dominated the Nursing profession?

    rita359 replied to **All Heart RN**'s topic in General Nursing

    If men dominated nursing the salaries would be better. The patient experience would be different as men don't tend to put up with as much as women do. For those who want the only entry point for...

  8. Oxygen Therapy: Lung CA

    rita359 replied to Thornbird's topic in General Nursing

    Heparin is now used as dvt prevention. We are starting most hospitalized pts on some form of dvt prevention, heparin being one of them. Really see nothing wrong with a heparin order as is. Better...

  9. what is "grey matter"

    rita359 replied to yuyu75's topic in General Nursing

    As if they were going to put the part of the brain the dogs ran off with back in??? Don't think so. What purpose is served by running after the

  10. I signed a contract and now...

    rita359 replied to debthern's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have a copy of that contract? Reread it. Surely it is more specific in its content than the hospital can do whatever it wants and you have to go along with it. Sounds like the hospital wants...

  11. will anyone ever hire me

    rita359 replied to isadoragag's topic in General Nursing

    Have known people who failed boards a couple of times and get jobs and do very well as nurses. As long as you graduate, I don't think employers are going to worry. It is just a small setback. Maybe...

  12. My pt died, lab results question?

    rita359 replied to BinkieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with the comment that she was to sick to live. For the familys sake it would have been good to have an autopsy on this lady to difinitively answer why she died. In the short term, I agree with...

  13. Have you ever reported someone to the BON?

    rita359 replied to suanna's topic in General Nursing

    Never have and cannot imagine myself doing so. If I were worried about someones practice I would report it to my immediate supervisor with specific instances to back up my concern. There are a lot...

  14. "New Nurses's Don't Know Anything."

    rita359 replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know the studies she referred to but you have to understand this from the mothers perspective. The more you read and hear about bad things happening in hospitals the more uncomfortable you...

  15. My ER experience....what do you think??

    rita359 replied to feebebe23's topic in General Nursing

    I would agree that I would have felt they treated me as a drug seeker. From a larger perspective, this was a one time thing for you but patients coming to an ER for some kind of pain is an every day,...

  16. Med question

    rita359 replied to student-with-no-life's topic in General Nursing

    Haven't taken boards in eons but from a med surg nurse I'd say antibiotics, heart and bp meds, cholesterol lowering meds, diabetic meds and insulins, narcotics and pain

  17. BSN degree

    rita359 replied to idahostudent's topic in General Nursing

    Depends upon your life circumstances of course but, that not considered, it is best to get a BSN nowadays. Wish I had done it years ago when my brother suggested it instead of saying I simply had...

  18. Suicide by Self-Neglect?

    rita359 replied to BlueRidgeHomeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Think you have to start by figuring out how much he and wife know about why he went into dka x2. Make sure they know how to prevent that. Cardiac rehab education would be another priority. If he can...

  19. Med Surg NIGHTMARE

    rita359 replied to jewelsg627's topic in General Nursing

    Don't have to remember it all. Ten years from now some of what they are teaching as gospel will have gone down the drain with the trash. Anatomy and physiology you should have down. Diseases you...

  20. You can help me when you have time

    rita359 replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    And sometimes it is good to look at the situation from the other guys point of view. I do agree that patient should have been cleaned up. If the aide had 25 patients to do vital signs on, that will...

  21. Contemplating becoming an RN. Tell me the GOOD, BAD & UGLY

    rita359 replied to contemplatingRN's topic in General Nursing

    The good: Decent salary, can work shifts that meet demands of your real life, many opportunities for advancement, many specialties to work with the same license, always learning something new no...

  22. Universal Health Care... what would this mean...

    rita359 replied to nurseyNJNYC's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You think we pay too much in taxes now, just wait. Where do you think they are going to get the money to pay for universal health care? With all government mandates we currently pay 70,000 plus....

  23. How do you convice elderly people of certain things?

    rita359 replied to justme1972's topic in General Nursing

    Our grandparents grew up in days prior to refrigeration. Leftovers were covered with a cloth and served for the next meal. This has been true for most of the history of mankind and we still survive....

  24. Difficulty adjusting to charge RN role...need advice

    rita359 replied to xokelly2's topic in General Nursing

    As a supervisor you have a lot more information on the overall staffing, nursing ratio, and accuity levels of the patients than staff nurses do. Staff only see how an admission etc affects them and...

  25. Chest Pain "Addicts"

    rita359 replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    Was reading an article on womens health, I believe in Newsweek. Stated that women can have heart disease in the microvascular blood supply to the heart, not show up on caths etc but still give...