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  1. Lpn? Rn? Bsn? Help me out here ;)

    beochicken posted a topic in Male Nursing Students

    Howdeehoo people. My first post at this forum after lurking here for a while, so im thinking a little introduction probably is needed: Male nursing student, half-way in a 3-year bachelor of nursing...

  2. Food Loaf

    beochicken replied to texascowgirl's topic in Correctional

    The food loaf stuff is the most stupid corrections penalty i've ever heard of. We as nurses have a responsibility of ensuring that our patients are getting enough nutrients, and motivate our patients...

  3. Corrections Vs. Psych Institution for the Criminally Insane

    beochicken replied to Sheri257's topic in Correctional

    Most of the dangerous elements in hi-security psych have a lifetime of experience when it comes to dealing out damage. Although physical fitness and some classes in basic self-defense might help you...

  4. Awful Awful

    beochicken replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    My workplace (forensic psych ward) does debriefs whenever someone on the shift feels the shift has been a bad one. The debrief takes place after the new shift has started (we get payed for an extra...

  5. Silly Question about podiatist (med advice not needed)

    beochicken replied to GeriatricSunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Im just wondering, how is the procedure done over in the Us? Do you do the same stuff as us booring europeans (local anastesia with xylocaine, rubber banding the toe/finger to empty it of blood,...

  6. Forensic Psykaitry

    beochicken replied to extrakul's topic in Psychiatric

    Extrakul: you have pm

  7. Forensic Psykaitry

    beochicken replied to extrakul's topic in Psychiatric

    I work in a norwegian security ward, most of the patients have a history of violence or other serious offences, and the rules are similar to the ones you have in malmô. We dont use restraints very...

  8. Paranoid patients

    beochicken replied to NPAlby's topic in Psychiatric

    One patient of mine was very paranoid about beeing spied on by various governement agencies, and believed his room was bugged. Instead of telling him there were no problem, I took the "well, if the...

  9. Lasting Effects of using Marijuana+Formaldahyde

    beochicken replied to grinnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    Im thinking its not the formaldehyde in the emmbalming fluid that the users are mostly interested in, more likely it is the pcp (also called angel dust) that is found in some types of enbalming fluid....

  10. Ceramics and Medicine

    beochicken replied to Kalico's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of prosthetics use high-tech ceramics. Googling gave me these hits (and a lot more). http://www.science.uts.edu.au/cmfs/knee.html http://www.wmt.com/ceramic/patients/treferences.asp And,...

  11. Anyone used greenbottle fly larvae on necrotic tissue before?

    beochicken posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    A couple of patients at my hospital have been treated with greenbottle fly larvae to cure problematic necrotic wounds. Anybody seen this done before? What results did you see, and would you...

  12. dryer sheets inbetween dressings?????

    beochicken replied to hospicemom's topic in Infectious Disease

    There are a lot of good absorbent bandages on the market , and a couple of them also have a charcoal filter (smith and nephews carbonet for example). Why dont you try that before you bandage the...

  13. AIDS debate - Most Controversial Story You've Never Heard

    beochicken replied to JasmineTea's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Has it occured to any of the aids sceptics on this board that the posts you are making may cause someone with an hiv infection not to take their coctail? Or maybe to continue unsafe sexual contact or...

  14. Fear Factor, Nurse Style, Five Stunts... lol

    beochicken replied to NurCrystal22's topic in Nursing Humor

    snorting out all the maggots from a homeless persons sacral decubitus without disinfexting your nose

  15. Takedowns and Security Training?

    beochicken replied to Town & Country's topic in Psychiatric

    I sure can answer, but the relevancy of my answer is maybe somewhat limited, considering i live in Europe, and not in the Us. In the psych facility I work (max security for violent patients), all...

  16. codeine to morphine: what's the enzyme?

    beochicken replied to lifeLONGstudent's topic in Pain Management

    Do like me, get a tibia fracture and try convincing the ER staff (in the middle of the night) that the codeine/paracetamol combo tablets they gave me earlyer didnt

  17. My first (and hopefully last) eclampsia patient

    beochicken posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Im a nursing student, and currently in ob/gyn rotation. When doing pre-rounds at the maternety observation ward today I heard one of the midwifes on the ward cry out for help, and rushed to see what...

  18. Verbal abuse by physicians in ICU

    beochicken replied to erinnRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I usually just tell angry/snotty mds that if they want, I will be happy to take it outside. Usually shuts them up quite fast (weighing in at 220 pounds usually have that

  19. My first (and hopefully last) eclampsia patient

    beochicken replied to beochicken's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks for the information, good to hear that you and your kid didnt suffer any long time

  20. My first (and hopefully last) eclampsia patient

    beochicken replied to beochicken's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Just one little question: do you have any recognition of the seizures? Most books and articles i have read states that pts are usually not concious during eclampsia seizures. But then, the books...

  21. CNA in Telemetry

    beochicken replied to kddex's topic in Cardiac

    At the hospital im working at 5 out of 27 telemetry units get interferrence from cell-phones. Only work at close range though (the phone has to be less than ten meters from the unit to cause...

  22. Max security ward job

    beochicken posted a topic in Psychiatric

    So, on thuesday im going to a job interview. The job im gonna apply for is as an orderly/nursing student at a max security psych ward (one of four in the country). The first question the head nurse...

  23. Childbirth vids?

    beochicken posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Just wondering if anybody knows about any free, informational (for nursing students?) childbirth videos on the www. Because of the fact that I am gonna be at the pregnancy observation ward during my...

  24. Childbirth vids?

    beochicken replied to beochicken's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Only downside is that i have neither a tv or the dicovery

  25. Max security ward job

    beochicken replied to beochicken's topic in Psychiatric

    Nah, this is just work, and does not count in my bachelors in nursing. I have worked a couple of shifts there now, and because of the good staffing at the place (1 employee for each patient), no...