xtxrn

xtxrn ASN, RN

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  1. question about drug testing

    xtxrn replied to katielee08's topic in General Nursing

    The ultimate scientific source http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-poppy-seed-drug-test-minimyth.html You don't have to eat

  2. Controversial new policies at Baylor!!!!

    xtxrn replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

    Contract implies something binding....if I'm wrong, and you can resign at any time without penalty, I've learned something :) But then don't understand the

  3. ADN or BSN (suggestions please):)

    xtxrn replied to Ready-Set-Go's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Some states only require an 8th grade

  4. Desperately seeking encouragement in 1st year

    xtxrn replied to jackster's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Is there anything specific you can pinpoint when this started? I'm so sorry you are having such a hard time. Being a new nurse is hard- and overwhelming (that's normal). But the vomiting makes me...

  5. What Do You Think You Needed To Learn in School, But Didn't

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    MANY, many hospitals in medium sized cities (100,000 +) do NOT have IV teams of any sort. It is the nurses primary responsibility to insert and maintain all peripheral lines, and maintain all central...

  6. My Patient Coded Yesterday

    xtxrn replied to Temcam7409's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There's an old M*A*S*H episode where Potter is telling one of the docs (Hawkeye or BJ---Frank wouldn't care- lol) there are 2 rules in medicine- #1- People die (or go bad) #2- Doctors (or nurses)...

  7. Not hired if you smoke?

    xtxrn replied to havehope's topic in General Nursing

    Yep...old news. In TX, patients and staff were sent outside (and that was in 2002- they might have to go to Mexico now). In IL, the hospital have been smoke free for

  8. Who is supposed to police the mean girls?

    xtxrn replied to imintrouble's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I get the point....buy why sink to the idiot's level?

  9. Would you be insulted if.....

    xtxrn replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There are signs in the hospital rooms, procedure rooms, dr offices and reception areas, etc TELLING patients to ask anybody who walks in the room if they have washed their hands. Patients have the...

  10. Controversial new policies at Baylor!!!!

    xtxrn replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

    Yes it's legal, and they already ask that question- asking the year and outcome...generally after hiring. Employers owe none of us anything if we don't already work for them. Gender, ethnicity,...

  11. Two Nurses dead in North Texas

    xtxrn replied to old-master's topic in Texas Nursing

    2002 thread. Hope they/the families are doing

  12. I wasn't hired because I failed the personality test???

    xtxrn replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

    It's a business, not personal. (feels like it though, huh?). They can hire who they want...if they're like that , do you want to work

  13. Unsafe Staffing

    xtxrn replied to Melinurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Another antique thread..... Deleted reply after seeing

  14. Who is supposed to police the mean girls?

    xtxrn replied to imintrouble's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    While she physically won't go anywhere, if she can't get the reaction she wants, maybe she'll shut up; cold shoulders go a long way in either waking someone up or driving them away....and it would be...

  15. drug shortage ?

    xtxrn replied to Trekfan's topic in General Nursing

    It's all inexcusable....wonder how the CEOs, CFOs, and COOs of the drug companies enjoyed their vacations this year...had enough money to put into those, I'm sure Or the ads on TV, so patients can...

  16. Test Anxiety

    xtxrn replied to manns1963's topic in General Students

    Please don't hesitate to talk to your doc about this. Anxiety is a legitimate disorder- and test anxiety is fairly common in varying degrees. You may only need an as needed medication vs something...

  17. How far will you travel to work?

    xtxrn replied to RainMom's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Is there any way to relocate?

  18. ADN or BSN (suggestions please):)

    xtxrn replied to Ready-Set-Go's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In the nursing school I went to (ADN- and never regretted it) the grading scale was something like this: 95-100 = A 87-94= B 80-86 = C below 80 = retake the class. Period. Class hours are not "clock"...

  19. What Do You Think You Needed To Learn in School, But Didn't

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is what I was suspecting. How could the hospitals not do this- though it's pretty sorry that they have to. You guys are really the last "semester" of school for new grads. Back when I...

  20. What Do You Think You Needed To Learn in School, But Didn't

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for adding this :) Experience is huge....I had a CNA who was a BSN student working as a CNA on the 28 bed neuro floor I worked on. She looked at my ADN syllabus and was dumbfounded (this was...

  21. A jaded nurse who cried last night and was renewed as a nurse

    xtxrn replied to Zookeeper3's topic in General Nursing

    Wow....thank you .....I know it's an old post....but the topic never gets

  22. There but for the grace of....

    xtxrn posted a topic in General Nursing

    What patient/patients have left the biggest impression on you re: just being so sadly unfair? Probably lots of them, but just thought it might be interesting... :) One of mine was an 8 y/o kid who...

  23. There but for the grace of....

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    A double-major college student got meningitis- it trashed her spinal cord from C2-3 (I think- it's been 24 years). She was vent dependent, and a quad. But her mind was totally intact. She had a...

  24. Simulating arm veins for practice IV's

    xtxrn replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated in 1985- and we didn't do IVs on each other back then :) We did practice IMs on each other (after working over an

  25. Leaving after 6 months

    xtxrn replied to ajt575s's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The relocation reason would not cause any problems on an application...