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  1. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Foxfour replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Would this be considered sexual assault? That's

  2. Home Based Medical Coding

    Foxfour replied to southernRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have two college degrees. One of the degrees is in Health Information Management (a large aspect of this degree is coding). My sister-in-law has this degree as well, and yes, she works from home...

  3. Home Based Medical Coding

    Foxfour replied to southernRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have two college degrees. One of the degrees is in Health Information Management (a large aspect of this degree is coding). My sister-in-law has this degree as well, and yes, she works from home...

  4. Love School Nursing !

    Foxfour replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    Amen!!!

  5. pay scale in Austin area?

    Foxfour replied to piper_for_hire's topic in Texas Nursing

    I live in south TX (I have lived in TX all my life), but most of my family lives in Austin. I have checked into the pay scale up there and the starting pay for a new grad was around 20/hr., and your...

  6. terminally ill child

    Foxfour posted a topic in School

    We were in the process of receiving a terminally-ill child at our school. Today I found out he died. Since his condition was fatal, I asked the mom in a prior meeting if she wanted us to perform CPR...

  7. I need to hear from single moms, like me...

    Foxfour replied to Debbie1972's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't a single mom so to speak, but I had a husband who worked 60-65 hours/week. I have one daughter who was 11y/o when I started nursing school. The closest family member lived 7 hours away, so...

  8. Moving to Washington

    Foxfour replied to tronchase's topic in Washington Nursing

    I remember you replying to a post I had to all WA nurses, and you stated that your husband might get transferred to Bremton. I guess he took the job. I'm going up there on March 7th for vacation....

  9. terminally ill child

    Foxfour replied to Foxfour's topic in School

    Thank you all for your advice. I writing it down. You have suggested some things that I would have never thought of. I hope a situation like this never comes up again, but just in case it does,...

  10. considering rehab - is 8:1 with a CNA good?

    Foxfour replied to kek's topic in Rehabilitation

    Your reply rushes memories back to me as I worked in a 18-bed unit at night with 2 nurses/1 aids. We also had a lot of admissions at 2000 and 2100. I never had the luxury of seeing a pt get better,...

  11. A bad week

    Foxfour posted a topic in School

    I love my job, but this week was horrible. To make a long story short, we had a girl with spina bifida and needs to be cath every 4 hours. Are curtains are too short, so privacy would be out the...

  12. considering rehab - is 8:1 with a CNA good?

    Foxfour replied to kek's topic in Rehabilitation

    I used to work in a rehab unit with 8 pts.. one aide and a high acuity with one more twist--about 95% of my pts didn't speak english and I didn't speak spanish. I'm dumbfounded that I lasted 2.5...

  13. considering rehab - is 8:1 with a CNA good?

    Foxfour replied to kek's topic in Rehabilitation

    I used to work in a rehab unit with 8 pts.. one aide and a high acuity with one more twist--about 95% of my pts didn't speak english and I didn't speak spanish. I'm dumbfounded that I lasted 2.5...

  14. Strangest question I ever received in my nsg career

    Foxfour posted a topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever been asked by a pt who just checked into the ED if you wanted to adopt their unborn baby who's coming any minute? I did. The mom and teenage daughter (who already had two litte ones)...

  15. Strangest question I ever received in my nsg career

    Foxfour replied to Foxfour's topic in General Nursing

    I am a compassionate person, but I'm not too sure the mom and teenager knew that. They just walked up to me and asked me, and I never laid eyes on these people before. As far as the legal/social...

  16. Strangest question I ever received in my nsg career

    Foxfour replied to Foxfour's topic in General Nursing

    I am a compassionate person, but I'm not too sure the mom and teenager knew that. They just walked up to me and asked me, and I never laid eyes on these people before. As far as the legal/social...

  17. My week got worse!

    Foxfour replied to Foxfour's topic in School

    I was running out of time when I started my thread to "A Bad Week", but I wanted to mention that I'm (with the same child) also dealing with a noncompliant mom. The ONLY time this child is cath is at...

  18. My week got worse!

    Foxfour posted a topic in School

    I was running out of time when I started my thread to "A Bad Week", but I wanted to mention that I'm (with the same child) also dealing with a noncompliant mom. The ONLY time this child is cath is at...

  19. oldest nursing student?

    Foxfour replied to grammyd's topic in Nursing Career

    In my class, we had a lady in her late 60's. She was a teacher and was married to a MD. She was one of the brightest in the class. She did it for the love of it and now works part-time. Go for it....

  20. Letters to God from Little Ones

    Foxfour replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Parish

    How sweet. Children are so special. Children's innocence and insight to life are just some of the reasons I love my job as a school

  21. School Budgets

    Foxfour replied to GreenWitch's topic in School

    We have about 840 students and our budget is $2,500/school year for general supplies. Plus we also get $500 for the print shop which I transferring about $325 over to general supplies and another...

  22. Enterpreneur as a wound care nurse

    Foxfour posted a topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Does anyone know if you can be on your own as a (nurse enterpreneur) wound care provider (with MD's orders of coorifice)? Thank you in advance for your

  23. To all you WA nurses out there

    Foxfour posted a topic in Washington Nursing

    I'm the nurse that's obsessed with the pacific northwest. I found some property that I want to purchase. It's approx 5 acres in the city of Shelton. The sellers are asking around 60,000 for it. It...

  24. To all you WA nurses out there

    Foxfour replied to Foxfour's topic in Washington Nursing

    Thanks to all for your replies. Since my last post on this subject, I have found several "sounds-promising" properties around this area. My husband and I plan on going up there in early March to...

  25. Come Play the Build a Better Hospital Game!

    Foxfour replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    How about giving the nurse a choice of a $100/incident (out of the MD's pocket) or a cattle prod up their *** when they talk to us like we are