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  1. things you wish you could tell the doctor

    lil' girl replied to celery's topic in General Nursing

    Received on a fax from doctor regarding fax we sent to doctor about a script for a patient for so and so "Above ok". Well doc "Above ok" is not an order! And don't send me a fax with some med you want...

  2. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    lil' girl replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the most demanding, attention seeking, manipulative resident on the floor that asks me what is wrong with you today? I would love to say, well other than the fact that my guts feel like they are...

  3. 250,000 allnurses.com members - Thank you!

    lil' girl replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    And THANK YOU

  4. charting sleep question

    lil' girl replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    LOL I wish someone had had the nerve to ask our instructor that

  5. charting sleep question

    lil' girl replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    And then they say " I did't sleep at all last night". Go

  6. A deeper view of long term care and paying it forward

    lil' girl replied to tattooednursie's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have a program called Bridge Builders at our LTC, certain ones of us (don't know who nominated us) are picked to visit a resident or two at least 3 times a week and just sit and talk to them, find...

  7. Need Encouragment Please

    lil' girl replied to NrsheartTS's topic in Virginia Nursing

    Yes some of the staff can be cruel to new members. Could be they feel threatened by you. Yes, you are fresh from school and remember many things they may have forgotten or swept under the rug. Give...

  8. NCLEX-PN: "quick result" on pearsonvue.com ?

    lil' girl replied to handyman's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Geez Louise, we had to pay for that stuff up front before we ever took the test, if I remember correctly it had to be 30 days (at least) before we

  9. Sinus tachycardia question

    lil' girl replied to everthesame's topic in General Nursing

    Sinus tachycardia occurs in pts. with healthy hearts as a physiologic response to strenuous exercise, anxiety or/and fear, pain, fever, hyperthyroidism, hemmorrhage, shock or hypoxemia. As long as the...

  10. charting sleep question

    lil' girl replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    Thats another thing they threw in too. Our nsg instructor would scream at us if we wrote respirations even and unlabored. We HAD to write regular and non labored. She would say "how can you tell if...

  11. charting sleep question

    lil' girl replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    Yes you can only chart that they are resting with their eyes closed, because you don't know if they are sleeping. We were also taught not to chart resting comfortably because some patients pain...

  12. sick and tired of defending working in geriatrics..

    lil' girl replied to ulmaulma's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    YOU GO!! I too work in LTC and love it!! And to all of those who think it is "easy" and "boring" I ask have you ever worked in LTC? All of my co workers tell me I run around like someone with ADD,...

  13. Do You Look Like A Nurse?

    lil' girl replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    Only at

  14. Help for a Procrastinator

    lil' girl replied to Care4life's topic in General Nursing

    And get a friend to call them out to you and see if you can name them. I used to get my daughter to call mine out to me when I was in school. It really

  15. Just took the LPN/LVN Test...Stopped at 86! What are the odds?

    lil' girl replied to jbear007's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I had 85 and passed. Can you not look on the Cal BON and see if you were issued your license?? We here in VA. could tell our results the 2nd day after taking test, just went to BON and looked up our...

  16. Just took the LPN/LVN Test...Stopped at 86! What are the odds?

    lil' girl replied to jbear007's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I passed with 85. Did you feel confident in your answers? Or did you feel lost in space? More than likely if you felt you knew the answers then you DID pass. Good

  17. How many females are "peeking" in this forum?

    lil' girl replied to caliber's topic in Men in Nursing

    me;)

  18. super powers...

    lil' girl replied to registerednut1221's topic in General Nursing

    What's that movie "more of me"? Well I'd like to be able to be in two places at the same

  19. Language Barrier at Work

    lil' girl replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Just keep climbing the ladder (manager, etc.) until you get

  20. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    lil' girl replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    Tying to get a pt. to drink through a straw, I said "no, you are blowing, you need to suck" Inserted a suppository in a male pt. felt feces and said "hmmm I feel a ball back

  21. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    lil' girl replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    Did anyone say " You dropped a bomb on

  22. feeling unprepared after lvn school

    lil' girl replied to eastxlvn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    YEP! Felt like " I wonder if these people that hired me know that I don't know what the &*ll I am doing". I think we all feel like that when we first start. As I said before, nursing school only...

  23. lazy mean assistants

    lil' girl replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    In our facility we the "charge nurse" can walk an assistant for insubordination. We don't have to write them up first. If they refuse to do something that we requested them to do then we make the...

  24. Working as an CNA after finding out you passed????

    lil' girl replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    We were hired right out of nursing school as LPN. The only requirement was that we had to have a letter saying that we were eligible to take the NCLEX. We were also hired at starting rate for LPN and...

  25. Is there anything that you cannot handle as a Nurse?

    lil' girl replied to cammy429's topic in General Nursing

    Had a lady once in respiratory failure in horrible distress and she had this slimy yellow sputum come up in her mouth, well they (I was in clinicals in nursing school) weren't getting the suction...