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    C section info needed - NOT MEDICAL ADVISE

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    I called her this morning just to say hi and see how she was "you know you can come visit right" so I am going in to the hospital after work. YAY!!!!!!!!!! I am SO
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    The Best Hospitals List

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to DanFNP's topic in General Nursing

    though once I did have a 2.2 ratio when I was hospitalized. One of the nurses was in orientation and the nurse patient ratio on that floor was 1.2 so when there were two of them it became 2.2 it was...
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    The Best Hospitals List

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to DanFNP's topic in General Nursing

    probably more nurses to less
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    You know you're a male RN when......

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to SteveNNP's topic in Men in Nursing

    personally I would be laughing right along with you. Don't know what it is but I have a guys sence of
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    C section info needed - NOT MEDICAL ADVISE

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Ok. she had the baby yesterday (friday) I will probably CALL her on monday and ASK her "are you up to having me visit" at that point she will probably be out of the hospital and it also gives her the...
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    Has your supervisor ever told you to go to work when you were throwing up?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Amethyst Veralyn's topic in General Nursing

    OK I just asked my mom who used to be a nurse in England. She said that for over there it is probably UNEXCUSED absences. it is a lot more common to get a docs note for absences then it is here in...
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    Has your supervisor ever told you to go to work when you were throwing up?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Amethyst Veralyn's topic in General Nursing

    So you can only be sick 3 times in a 2 year period? that is
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    Restraints during surgery

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Shore Bookworm's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Only time I have had consious sedation was for an egd (I think that is what it is called an upper endoscopy) a few months ago. Only thing I remember was waking up and reaching toward the tube they...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    It is the "it will never happen to me" phenominon. People my age think nothing bad will happen to them or those they know, just "other" people. They do not realize those "other" people are thinking...
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    Hyperglycemic Episode Treated w/OJ?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    NOT A NURSE HERE BUT: When I took first aid/CPR we were told to give something sugery to anyone with diabeties who was having a problem if we did not know what the problem is (obvioulsy if they are...
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    Anyone here from an Eye surgery dept?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to yoo jin's topic in Operating Room

    Closest I am is an eye surgery patient.....ummm ex eye surgery patient...umm current one....umm....what ever someone who has had an enucleation and still has surgeries in the eye socket would be.
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    Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    US people have the same issue going over to the UK. I think I posted this somewhere else on this board however one of my friends from school did a semester in England, she was singing in the choir,...
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    Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    at my hospital in boston they are
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    Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    my area of boston we drink
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    What brings non-nurses to allnurses?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to ruralnurs's topic in General Nursing

    I am a patient. Originally I came because I was planning to be a nurse (I was a junior in highschool). At the end of my freshman year of college I learned that dream would not come to fruition....
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    Nurses who refuse to give pain meds

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to JellyBean1's topic in Pain Management

    I have had an issue once with my nurse not giving me my pain meds. It was after a surgery, I had been in the ICU for a day because they had left the tube in my throat (exsesive blood loss, swollen...
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    Average doseage of conscious sedation while doing endoscopy's

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to lmbv55's topic in Gastroenterology

    I agree. I has an EGD a few months ago and was a little freaked. This is due to the fact that I had never had that type of procedure before. I had only had surgery where I was totally out (GA). The...
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    PCA's in PACU

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to cthorn518's topic in PACU

    Not a nurse here but have an idea, though I am not sure if it is feesable. Find out what they are planning to write for before the surgery is over. Then you can get it ready, and before leaving the OR...
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    Family Visitation in the PACU

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to smidgen21's topic in PACU

    What I am going to be going to grad school for works on just that principle. I am going to be a child life specialist. These members of the health care team do exactly that type of thing. It has been...
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    For all nurses, especially peds..Heartwarming

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    I shared this with one of my cooworkers. She passed it on the her
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    Cloth hats in the OR

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to ann1978's topic in Operating Room

    "my" or were I am a patient, they wear cloth hats, and I have never noticed them wearing anything over them. I am glad they do to, when I was 17 when I was having my first surgery in 5 years, the...
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    For all nurses, especially peds..Heartwarming

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to kstec's topic in General Nursing

    It was a group effort to make that little boys last moments blissful for him. It took his mom wanting his dreams to come true though he could not do it himself. It took fireman Bob, having a big heart...
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    Body Worlds

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to missingunc's topic in General Nursing

    It has already been to boston. It was at the science mus. I saw it there it was
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    nurse sensitive pediatricians

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to RC1212's topic in General Nursing

    Nope I was started in the hospital, due to the fact that this was after a surgery. Felt a little sore in that area, however assumed it was due to peeing alot since I was on lots of fluids, thus...
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    Nursing, Smoking, and Kids

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to JettaDP's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a nurse either however i am assuming pack per