Simkah

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1. One professor constantly talking about other professors in class - What to do?

   Simkah replied to Simkah's topic in Post Graduate

   llg, your wisdom never ceases to amaze me. I think I will lay low and keep my mouth shut. After much careful deliberation, I have decided that this is one battle I choose not to pursue. I will leave it to TPTB to eventually figure out what is going o...

2. One professor constantly talking about other professors in class - What to do?

   Simkah posted a topic in Post Graduate

   One of my professors in my PhD program is a curmudgeonly statitician. He is an older middle-aged man with an attitude. During his data analysis class, he constantly disparages some of the other instructors, especially the director of the PhD program....

3. Info on Greenville please...

   Simkah replied to WildcatFanRN's topic in North Carolina

   PCMH is a mixture of good and bad. It has some absolutely great units in which you can establish your nursing career, and it also has some units that will burn you out before your first year is finished. Good units (IMHO): cardiac floors. BTW, PCMH h...

4. Pitt Country Hospital in Greenville, NC (Vidant Medical Center) unit reviews

   Simkah replied to vld0315's topic in North Carolina

   PCMH is a mixture of good and bad. It has some absolutely great units in which you can establish your nursing career, and it also has some units that will burn you out before your first year is finished. Good units (IMHO): cardiac floors. BTW, PCMH h...

5. Code Status Error - An Ethical Dilemma

   Simkah replied to Simkah's topic in General Nursing

   I want to thank everyone for their replies and words of encouragement. I think the worst part about all of this was the Charge Nurse's words - If you were him, would you want to live? These were the last words this dear gentleman heard as his soul w...

6. Code Status Error - An Ethical Dilemma

   Simkah posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was a relatively new and inexperienced nurse and was orienting to the hospital on a chaotic medical-surgical unit. The orientation began by following the nursing assistant(s) for a shift and participating in basic patient care tasks. This was to pr...

7. Policy on Peds Patients

   Simkah replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

   On our pediatric ward, parents are not required to stay, but are strongly encouraged to do so. "Family-Centered Care" is the official policy of our Children's Hospital. However, there are many tragic instances in which the biological parent is NOT al...

8. Gastric Bypass: trading one set of problems for another?

   Simkah replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   Several years ago, two of my female coworkers had the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. This is the procedure in which the stomach is reduced to the size of an egg and the duodenum and part of the jejunum is bypassed, creating malabsorption. They wer...

9. Missed work, feel HORRIBLE!

   Simkah replied to PiPhi2004's topic in New Nurse

   I did something very similar during my first year of nursing and felt HORRIBLE about it! In my case, I had copied down the wrong day from the schedule (either that or the schedule was changed after I copied down the days, can't remember which). Someo...

10. I got a job!At an abortion clinic?

    Simkah replied to rrandle02's topic in General Nursing

    That "uneasy feeling" is your conscience. Abortion is the actual taking of human life. The pay is lucrative for a reason, because it is very difficult to find staff who will participate in performing this procedure. Don't do it.

11. Flu Shots

    Simkah replied to RNERHOUSESUPOR's topic in General Nursing

    As long as the potent neurotoxin thimerisol is present in the influenza vaccine, I will refuse this immunization year after year after year (and I work in direct patient care). There are so many contaminants in our environment to which we are exposed...

12. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    Simkah replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    At our last pinning ceremony, one of our graduating students wore a white mini dress, no slip, with an orange thong showing brightly through! Give me a little tradition anyday.

13. Concerned about this and other sites

    Simkah replied to Kikumaru's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree. Some serious privacy issues involved here.