Beautiful Mind RN

"It's called Irish yoga"

Patient: "I need to blow my nose" Me with a smile: (hands him the tissue box that was on his tray table, right in front of him) Patient: "I need the tissue, not the box!" Patient was alert and independent... I'm surprised he didn't ask me to blow hi...

I was in the same position as you, only I had different life circumstances that directed me to my current position. I am a Training Specialist for my organization I work for now. Specifically for the Epic system. So I train employees, mainly nurses a...

We learned this in our BSN program. My teachers also made sure we had plenty of practice during clinical as well.

There are several possibilities that you can look into. Don't limit your assessment/nursing diagnoses to just the mother. Look at the father, the child (look into the different stages of child development, such as Piaget and Erikson. As well as, i...

One of my friends picked their nose and asked me if they have a sinus infection.

New grad here. Got a job in Oncology. Networking helps!

BOO-YAH! Time to party~ Good job!

Face on keyboard.

That. ^ This can apply to both experienced nurses and new grads.

Oh boy. I guess I better brace myself for becoming a zombie, because I'll be working night shift soon enough.

I really did not know what category to put this under, but "Nurses Rock" sounded appropriate for how I feel at this time! I passed my NCLEX the first time in 75 questions. I am now official. I just wanted to share with the allnurses community, beca...

Thank you to the both of you!

I cannot even imagine. You seem to have a big heart, my friend. Kudos to you for being a peds nurse. That is the field I wish to go into some day.

Tell him, the patient is becoming a real life Iron Man! Just joking. I agree with the others about full thickness burns and amputation, though, considering the age your son is, he might find those concepts fascinating.

Thank you!

The patient that comes in with no family. I will never forget a male patient I had in my second semester of nursing school. He was in his late 50's and getting surgery for a hernia. He told me he was newly divorced (his wife had actually left him f...

As Commuter said, my birthday suit!

Love THAT story, thank you for sharing! And thank you for the congrats! I got hired on this week with the hospital I was working through nursing school as a pharmacy tech. All the nurses that know I was going for my nursing license were extremely e...

:) Agreed!

Congrats. :)

Thank you very much. :) I am starting at the hospital that I have been at Pharmacy Tech at for 5 years. I can't wait to start out my new career!

Thank you very much!

Thank you!