Cold Stethoscope

Cold Stethoscope

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  1. Do Not Work Off The Clock, Nurses!

    Cold Stethoscope replied to TheCommuter's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As crazy as that sounds — you're

  2. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    May

  3. Drug Shortages

    Cold Stethoscope replied to CrufflerJJ's topic in Patient Medications

    So then, are there valid cases of malfeasance on the part of corporations, with their fiduciary responsibility strictly to the shareholders, or is that just a bunch of lefty propaganda? If a company...

  4. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That is clear here, whatever your working definition of "warranted" is. From your location inside your head, how can you know that? Anyone who tells you otherwise is discounted because you are "a...

  5. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? That would be hard to disprove, but you could release your taxes (as your father did) if I accused you of not paying taxes and...

  6. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    Cold Stethoscope replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is another nail in the coffin for the idea of semi-private rooms. When I was a patient at a fine Boston hospital, there were times when I felt endangered by my roommates huge family that visited...

  7. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    Cold Stethoscope replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Holy smokes. Those things usually have batteries and

  8. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I hear you. Just know that you risk being dinged with a "posting to be divisive only" warning if someone really doesn't like what you're saying. Too many of those and you are disappeared from the...

  9. Patient Care And Customer Service Are Not The Same!

    Cold Stethoscope replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes, I live in the U.S., and always have. I had a bad skiing accident, which left me with "severe ACL insufficiency" in my right knee. I found one on the best orthopedic surgeons in Boston and...

  10. Florida Nursing Student

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Koinu's topic in Florida Nursing

    FIU's BSN program is hard to get into as a freshman. They have many hundreds of applicants for a hundred seats. You need very good grades and other distinguishing characteristics, such as...

  11. Do Not Work Off The Clock, Nurses!

    Cold Stethoscope replied to TheCommuter's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In some facilities, if you raise a fuss about it, you will be fired. It's a sad situation. That is one area where a union contract might be of

  12. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    Cold Stethoscope replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    A while back, while I was treated with IV antibiotics after an iatrogenic intestinal perforation, my IV pump would regularly act up and sound the alarm (often because the tubing would become occluded...

  13. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): My Personal Pro's and Con's

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Corey Narry's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    To be honest, I'm not sure how much useful knowledge an MBA, in most cases, would confer. An accounting degree — maybe. An MBA is more of a checkoff item if your applying for a corporate management...

  14. Pt's/visitors reading Fifty Shades of Grey???

    Cold Stethoscope replied to neverbethesame's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    A large part of the country is obsessed with sex, and controlling sex to control people. Abortion obsession? Birth control obsession? Marriage gender obsession? It's all part of of a syndrome that...

  15. Worried about my nursing supplies!?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Randi156's topic in General Students

    I suggest engraving an image of yourself on the bell of the stethoscope so that, even if someone steals it, they'll have to look you in the eye every time they use it. This reminds me of the South...

  16. Pt's/visitors reading Fifty Shades of Grey???

    Cold Stethoscope replied to neverbethesame's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    What could possibly have greater literary merit than that? I think it's nice that people still read books, even fluffy books, rather than flip on Maury to see who's really the

  17. Patient Care And Customer Service Are Not The Same!

    Cold Stethoscope replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There are people who have insurance, but given the deductibles and co-pays, still find it cheaper to have certain large elective surgeries (e.g., joint replacements) in Asia at a top hospital. For...

  18. Miami Dade College (MDC) Fall 2012 Full-time/Part-time Nursing program

    Cold Stethoscope replied to mjl88's topic in Florida Nursing

    Your overall GPA doesn't matter, as long as it meets the minimum (2.5, I think). Your admission is contingent upon your competitive score, in which your pre-req GPA has a weight as 40%, and your TEAS...

  19. "Why does a nurse have to go to college?"

    Cold Stethoscope replied to bookwormom's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. Go all technical on him, using real-world examples. Go into detail on what RNs actually do (if that is what his daughter is really interested on). It's a lot more than fluffing pillows and...

  20. Patient Care And Customer Service Are Not The Same!

    Cold Stethoscope replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good customer service is not necessarily incompatible with good patient care. For instance, in the NYT article, losing a patient in the radiology department for 8 hours is not great patient care, and...

  21. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Gee, I don't know HM. Maybe people who can handle stress really well make great air traffic controllers, but poor nurses. Got any statistics? I'm being facetious, but it sounds like you're justifying...

  22. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's really not that easy, and I'm not talking about the job market, or that the situation is likely to be no better at another facility than it is at your current one. Rather, it's that nurses deal...

  23. Miami Dade College (MDC) Fall 2012 Full-time/Part-time Nursing program

    Cold Stethoscope replied to mjl88's topic in Florida Nursing

    I think it's actually in the contract that the instructor and school sign that audio recording of lectures by students is

  24. Why are Nurses so mean to each other?

    Cold Stethoscope replied to Dixon, future NP's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree. But then you also get people slashing and burning before they even know the details of the OP's story. People jump the gun in both directions, rather than taking a moment to pause and...

  25. Miami Dade College (MDC) Fall 2012 Full-time/Part-time Nursing program

    Cold Stethoscope replied to mjl88's topic in Florida Nursing

    I doubt that you'll need to buy a sphygmomanometer. The nurse's kit at the bookstore cost about $100. You also need a white scrub top for on-site clinicals, plus a green scrub top and bottom. You...