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When your patients are alive at the end of the day.

The Stand, anyone???

Actually, I didn't have much of a problem, if it helps get catch terrorists. We are at war, you know.

Well, the tactics being used are definitely reminiscent of Stalinist Russia. You do realize that the political assassinations/mass murders were aided and abetted by tactics like this - informing on those around, whether neighbors or not. It was a v...

Here's the actual text from the blog page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts...ubborn-Things/ Halfway down the page: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of li...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/ Halfway down the page: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel ju...

Massive lactulose stool when I was in my first trimester...makes me wince thinking of it.

Hugs and prayers for you! God Bless!

Well, when I was in Kazakstan, a former Soviet Republic, the old babushkas (grandmas) would have a fit if they saw me sitting on the steps of a building or the floor, as they told me I'd never have children. Also I was told ice in drinks give you so...

Try pushing your patient into the shower in one of those PVC shower chairs that's also a bedside commode, giving them the shower, and then realizing you can't move the chair because the pan underneath the seat (which you conveniently forgot to remove...

Well, it's nice to think of the patient's rights, but the previous poster is right. If the residents were allowed to lie in bed all day, not eat, and only use their wheelchair, in no time they would have pneumonia, constipation, more falls (from no ...

Or spend some "quality time" with your man....happened to me after putting on my hands....WE know better now!

Um, Tom, Caucasians (sp?) CAN be sicklers, it's just much more prominent in the African American world. Speaking as a former peds nurse and one who currently works with sicklers, I can say with authority that not all of mine are African-Americans. ...

Excuse me, just because YOU indulge in the above said behaviour, don't put that on the rest of us! I really hate the 'shame the hypocrite back' attitude. I have my own issues (doesn't everyone?) but you are quite mistaken in assigning blame and bro...

Saw this order a lot on the ortho floor post knee/hip replacements.

Thank you. I just have tears streaming down my face. Probably part of it is the fact that I've got a 5 year old boy. But thank you for being there. I've worked Peds, but general floors, not PICU/NICU, because I knew I couldn't handle it. Bless y...

You've got great opportunities either way. However, and this is my opinion based on my personal experience, cross-training is a great way to get a wide variety of experience that will allow you to truly discover your niche. Some nurses go all to pi...

Look, in an emergency, with everything else we have to do/remember, if the patient does not tell me about, I'm not going to worry about it. Even if it's not an emergency, I'm probably not going to make it my priority, especially if there's nothing t...

Heh. You go, girl!!! My mom (who has a wonderful tendency to blurt truth out in a very insulting way) told me " You're so much nicer now you're not on night shift!" Yikes. Well, I got to the point I couldn't sleep on my days off, so I found a job...

Excuse me. Any place can have unprofessional people, no matter where you go or which organization you work for. As a former Mayo nurse, I have to say that at least at the Minnesota campus, which is where I worked, I was completely impressed by the...

Just FYI - Orientate (while driving me crazy too, like STATs, arrrgh) is actually the British english version of our word orient. Don't ask me how it got started in nursing!!!

My crazy psych professor for general psych (college) pronounced acetylcholine as assy-TOO-ka-lene! Drove me nuts! She also vaccumed her house naked (don't ask how I know), would tell her classes about her love life with her professor-at-the-same-c...

Great great something or other (aunt or grandmother) named Lamiddy Nileptha.

Depending on the education level: PhD - Are you having an impediment with elimination, fecal or urinary? Master's - Do you have any hindrance to your urination? Bachelor's - Do you have any problems with going to the bathroom? High school - Do ya hav...

The point is, if the patient had been getting it Q3, then your not giving it very likely would plunge them into a withdrawal syndrome, and then at the 6 hour mark, they would need even more medication than whatever dose you would have given them whic...