madwife2002 BSN, RN

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    Nurse Management

    Nursing Management is the leadership who performs governance and decision-making within a nursing environment. Managers have the responsibility to guide staff towards achieving goals by assigning...
  2. Majority of quality improvement jobs in health care can have many responsibilities that fall into specific categories, including but not limited to evaluation, analysis, training and education,...
  3. Hi I am a HD nurse with experience in PD and knowledge of HHD plus Transplant I have over 14 years Renal experience, 4 years OB/GYN and 9 years Tele In this forum we often see questions asked about...
  4. Moving from one state to another can be as easy as ABC, providing you plan and make it a nice smooth transition. There are certain variables which you are able to control and there are certain ones...
  5. Sleeping while on duty is the number 3 in my top ten of reasons nurses get fired. In 1910, we slept for an average of 9 hours; by 2002, the average dropped to 6.9 hours per night. Early studies...
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    Death came to visit

    Death came to visit Friday, it was not kind, and it was not peaceful for my friend's mom-it was hard, she struggled so much, her mind was ready, but her body fought her to the bitter end; causing...
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    Death came to visit

    We have to be so strong when advocating for our loved ones! Sorry for your
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    Death came to visit

    Nutella a great insight-In 2000 my mother was diagnosed with a stage 4 uterine ca. The specialist said nothing they could do-too far gone and was not operable. My mother and I had talked for years...
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    EQ Versus IQ

    Can you give me the link to the studies I would be interested to
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    EQ Versus IQ

    Emotional Intelligence or EQ Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI) is a term created by two researchers - Peter Salavoy and John Mayer - and popularized by Dan Goleman in his 1996 book of the same name....
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    EQ Versus IQ

    What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)? | Psych Central Emotional Intelligence
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    EQ Versus IQ

    Cowboyardee-it is indeed a good read It does say that EQ can be used for both good and bad, I am an advocate for EQ because my emotions can be detrimental to me in my position. I need to be able to...
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    First Nursing Job interview

    Wear business clothes, closed toe shoes Shake hands with your interviewers-even if they don't offer their hands walk over and offer yours Take several resumes and hand to each interviewer If you do...
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    So is there really a nursing shortage?

    No nursing shortage just a shortage of good
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    Wearing Scrubs Outside of the Workplace

    Just plain nasty!! I do not want to see anybody in their scrubs in the
  16. Number 5 in my series of Articles about the top ten things to get fired, discusses medication errors. Making mistakes in health care tends to be frowned upon more than any other career, the general...
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    Nurses Who Harm Patients

    When we entrust our loved ones to the care of Nurses, few people really believe that they are going to be deliberately harmed by Health care professionals. Surprisingly, over 2000 Nurses worldwide...
  18. A huge problem in healthcare can be an employee who is constantly late to work, or calls off frequently. Sometimes this is due to genuine problems in their personal life but often it is a pattern of...
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    OB/GYN Nursing

    An OB/GYN staff nurse is a registered nurse who provides direct care to women. OB-GYN nurses may work in hospital labor and delivery and post-partum units, as well as at birthing centers and maternity...
  20. Falsification of documentation is number 6 on the list of 'Ten reasons why we get fired' Documentation is a large part of a nurse's daily routine; everything we do, say or plan has to be documented....
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    Reported for this?

    Moved to Private Duty Nursing forum at the request of the
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    Renal diet and label reading?

    First of all thank you for caring so much that you are asking for advice on the renal diet, two things you need to know are your patients on dialysis or are they on a renal diet to slow down their...
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    Inquiry about Inactive Nurses

    Welcome to allnurses I have moved your thread to this forum as you will get more
  24. Do you have any Renal experience? A lot of dialysis centers are cross training their home nurses these days, the RN's will do the PD and HHD training. It takes about 3 months to train/orientate a RN...
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    Questions about quick results

    Moved to NCLEX