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  1. Rookie RN - Serious Questions

    NurseFirst replied to flashyrn2be's topic in General Nursing

    vte = venous thromboembolism i looked all over the site whose link was posted: http://www.preventdvt.org/ i could not find vte defined. i finally stuck it into google and came up with the answer....

  2. Rookie RN - Serious Questions

    NurseFirst replied to flashyrn2be's topic in General Nursing

    i so totally agree with that. i decided that after i read a book about this couple that bicycled around the world. got harrassed in the mid-east, all kinds of adventures and risks. one place in the...

  3. The Less-Than-Glamorous Duties

    NurseFirst replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    I am still a student, however: I almost did a fecal disimpaction. I was scheduled to do one, but everyone said they gave him a suppository first; I gave him one and disimpaction was decidedly not...

  4. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    NurseFirst replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    I remember years ago reading something about the number of people who were considered dead who really weren't dead yet. It was scary. People with heartbeats that were not detectable. I'm sure the...

  5. Insulin protocol---Q 1 hour accu checks

    NurseFirst replied to VAC's topic in MICU, SICU

    So, this sounds like a bit of science gone mad; nobody is thinking about the consequences, ISTM. Great, we have research studies that say X, and I've heard that as well. However, if we are poking...

  6. How many of you had a different career/education before becoming an RN?

    NurseFirst replied to cancergirl's topic in General Nursing

    You may have needed to get an RN to get into anesthesia before, and it still opens up more opportunities for anesthetist training, but it's not absolutely

  7. Omsbudsman experiences?

    NurseFirst replied to germain's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I looked into becoming an Ombudsman, but the training times interfered with my nursing classes . The training in mediation (at least taught at my loc? my state?) is highly regarded and have seen it...

  8. Accelerated degree programs

    NurseFirst replied to Maisie's topic in General Nursing

    Surgery tends to be that way, from what I understand. The degree of expertise some of these ppl have is just amazing to me.

  9. Any ideas for debatable nursing issues for school paper?

    NurseFirst replied to kahumai's topic in General Nursing

    and one more. since bush is interested in pushing forward an initiative to computerize medical records and other "automation" of health care processes--is this a good idea or a bad idea and why?...

  10. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    NurseFirst replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Don't remind me. My poor, dear, belated father who was by no means comatose was "rolled" insnsitively and without warning by a hospice nurse. :angryfire My poor father, as he was being rolled...

  11. Any ideas for debatable nursing issues for school paper?

    NurseFirst replied to kahumai's topic in General Nursing

    Staffing ratios? Use of UAPs? etc. Phillipino Nurses, from both the U.S. and Phillipine perspective. How computers are used in Nursing? Medicine errors? Have you tried looking at the "nursing issues"...

  12. This is sick

    NurseFirst replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    'Twasn't the only assumption you were making... :chuckle

  13. This is sick

    NurseFirst replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    'cuz it ain't invented. Look it up in Amazon.... Hmmm...I wonder if that means it's a novel to God? :rotfl:

  14. This is sick

    NurseFirst replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    As one of my nursing instructors says sometimes when people ask her questions: "Look it up!" :)

  15. This is sick

    NurseFirst replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    "Nurse" is NOT a novel. And I read it well before I was in nursing school, twice, in fact (and not because I always dreamed of being a nurse; I'd actually forgotten I had read it previously). I have...

  16. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    NurseFirst replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Well, maybe you could ask a clergyman of SOME faith. They would probably recognize that the kind of Orthodox the poster is is NOT Jewish, but Christian. (The Greek population is primarily Greek...

  17. Accelerated degree programs

    NurseFirst replied to Maisie's topic in General Nursing

    I think it might be more like policemen. When you are on the streets (wards) you need the help and support of your fellow nurses to get the job done, whether it is turning a 400# pt or helping give...

  18. Shoes...omg my feet are in heaven!!

    NurseFirst replied to RainEdayWoman's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Ummm....I think a lot of facilities won't allow open-toed shoes (aka sandals). Just a thought.

  19. Shoes...omg my feet are in heaven!!

    NurseFirst replied to RainEdayWoman's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    That's easy to fix: make sure all your shoes are the same color ... :) :rotfl:

  20. Where Do Residents Rights End? Long, Sorry.

    NurseFirst replied to Cheez-It!'s topic in General Nursing

    If you couldn't use the waterless cleaner, and tell him you are giving him a massage?

  21. technology changing patient care?

    NurseFirst replied to hittme123's topic in General Nursing

    That's easy: PDAs PDAs PDAs PDAs PDAs -- especially in use by med students, insterns, residents and physicians...

  22. This is sick

    NurseFirst replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    But have they changed for the better? There is actually a well-regarded medical ethicist who recommends that parents have the option to kill their child until they are 3 mos old!!!!

  23. Retyping/writing notes

    NurseFirst replied to TLC RN's topic in General Students

    Since I tutor folks (and I love doing it), I am always looking for ways that can help people, that others have found useful. I would be very interested in knowing your system. Thanks,

  24. What time is it? The watch watch...

    NurseFirst replied to NurseFirst's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the great suggestion. I have a couple of their knives, one of which I bought in the early 1970s!!!

  25. What time is it? The watch watch...

    NurseFirst posted a topic in General Nursing

    We've done shoes, uniforms, stethoscopes, pdas but I don't think I've seen a thread on watches. I have the worst luck with watches. They stop working on me (windup kind), the watchband breaks and it's...