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    Family Doesn't Want Patient To Know?

    you see i feel like i can put myself kind of in the situation (I have the same disorder) I have always known that it was a possibilty that they could turn cancerous (since 7th grade when I did a...
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    Family Doesn't Want Patient To Know?

    Someone I know, on another board, just found out their son (13 years old) has 6 months to live and is not telling him. I do not agree with that, I feel like he is at an age where he can handle it, and...
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    Do surgeons intimidate nurses?

    It is exactly what kids are taught about not doing drugs. There is strength in numbers. It is taught to kids about bullies on the playground, why wouldnt it work for bullies in the work place to. It...
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    Do surgeons intimidate nurses?

    I KNOW my surgeon atleast yells at the nurses. I do not know if any become intimidated, but I have seen it and heard about enough to know that it was not a couple of isolated
  5. Ya endoscopies are not bad. I was sedated for mine, only remember one little couple of secs, I raised my are to reach toward the tube and was out
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    Why hire an LPN rather than an MA for a doctor's office?

    This is what the MA in my doctors office does: Height/Weight/Vital Signs Takes a history/finds out more about why you are there Draws blood Does EKG's Calls scripts in to the pharmacy Calls with test...
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    Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    My fam, from ireland. but all my friends in highschool called it soda
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    What do you do during to operation?

    Thank you. That is the type of thing I was looking for. As alot of people on here are aware (and are made so if not by my name) I am a patient. I have had 12 surgeries, and I was just wondering what...
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    Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    Should have said "how about we pay for the surgery" since you KNOW you would have
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    the hair on the back of my neck is sticking straight
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    apparently he was
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    CRNAs working in Boston

    Children's Hospital also has
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    How can I comfort the crying patient?

    Yup, When I first got diagnosed with depression, my main sypmtom was crying for no real reason, just
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    Patients Going Behind Nurse's Station

    I was let behind it once. I was 5, and had been on the ward about a month before. It was now christmas and I wanted to give one of the nurses that I LOVED a present, and well, they brought me back to...
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    ER- HELP: Dumbest reason people go to ER

    calm down, it was am honest mistake on their part i am
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    Finding a patient's blog

    If one of my docs or nurses found my care page I would not mind them reading it, it would show that they care what is happening with me and want the whole
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    ER- HELP: Dumbest reason people go to ER

    same
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    "English Only" Rule at Work?

    The patient care thing yes...unless as was pointed out earlier, something is happening with a patient, the nurse who finds out can not explain it well in english so tells a coworker who speaks her...
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    "English Only" Rule at Work?

    That is a good point...if the nurse does not speak english well and there was something she needed to tell another nurse I would want her to say it in her best language so that she was most...
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    "English Only" Rule at Work?

    I would not want to be able to hear someone who was caring for me speaking spanish, or any other language other then english. Even if at that second they were not doing anything for me. I find it...
  21. My friend had a baby by c section yesterday. I am trying to figure out when I should call her to see the baby. I do not want to call her to soon. How long (generally) are people kept in the hospital...
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    Anyone a Pre op nurse?

    From my perspective as the patient they: call me the day before surgery (if it is day surgery) to verify what I am having done (I need to tell them so they know I understand it) and get a basic...
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    C section info needed - NOT MEDICAL ADVISE

    not sure of the exact spelling but it sounds like Nyada
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    C section info needed - NOT MEDICAL ADVISE

    she is the cutest thing
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    Hourly Rounding

    as I have said on another thread, as a patient scripts wouls pi$$ me off. If all my nurses said the same thing I would KNOW it was not genuine and that would upset me, I would worry were they only...