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Such a great point! Hospital food is awful enough for pts, the food offered to employees is worse! I know my local hospital has different junk food every Friday - make your own sundaes etc.

We just had this discussion in school. I was never a smoker and remember as an aid when other aids would often go outside for smoking breaks. Sometimes the nurses would go too leaving me (at age 16) alone with an entire floor of pts!! I've been thin...

Well that explains a little, however many of us change our values when we are adults. It's interesting how we preceive things based on our childhoods. My son always went to a female doctor and had a friend who's mother was female. When he was about 6...

All of the sudden the water I've been drinking is starting to taste funny. Yuck! We have a well, but I'm not sure it's any better.... I love the idea of recycling meds. What a great way to reduce costs and help the environment. What do you think wil...

I'm a pre-nursing student starting in Sept 05, and I'm also about to start a new job as an aide with a home health agency. I'm exicted about it, but my biggest concern is smoke filled homes. I get awfully sick around cig smoke, even if it's just in t...

Why???

Thanks for all of your replies. I totally agree that I don't have the right to tell people what do to in their own homes. That's why I'm so concerned about saying anything. Growing up my father smoked in our house and I was a sickly kid, had respito...

All parents have to make informed decisions based on their own research. I choose to delay vaccinations and only had some vaccinations done, not all. If vaccines are so effective, why do so many people win law suits, and why do the ingredients for ce...

I currently own my own family daycare, and I think it's a great idea! I agree that it may be tricky with different illnesses. I used to work in a daycare with an RN, and a "get well" room, but the problem was that it was only one room. If you could g...

Okay, so hospitals expect the following: Nurses are allowed no breaks Nurses are not allowed to eat or drink at the desk, only during breaks in the cafeteria But there are no breaks, so nurses do not eat or drink, and work their butts off while star...

What is wrong with people? That is so wrong on so many levels!!

I was actually looking for nursing horror stories :chuckle . I was reading a lot of websites designed to get more people into nursing, and I KNEW it wasn't as glamourous as these sites were making it out to be! So I ended up here and read lots of gro...

I read that wrong the first time. I thought you wrote " I like guys penises, period." Man is my head in the gutter today. :rotfl: :rotfl:

What's up with the vag bleeding??? During pregnancy or just getting a period and thought they'd let you know :rotfl: :rotfl:

I have two kids. I planned underwater births (didn't happen), I did have a midwife instead of a Dr., I homeschool them, I didn't circ them, I breastfed them for two years - first year on demand, no pacifiers, no bottles no solid food for 6 months,et...

I don't know if I'll have a choice, but I've always prefered working and going to school in the evenings/nights. Also I get free childcare from my husband during that time slot :)

WOW!! That's amazing to me!!! I don't work in a hospital yet but I'd be curious to know about our local hospital. I'd say about 90% of my friends and relatives don't circ!! Maybe it's regional?????

I wonder if this is sort of like hysterectomies for women (I sort of wonder if they are done a lot more than necessary by some docs). Yup, I wonder too, along with c-secs, episiotomies, etc etc etc

From everything I've read, adults don't need to be circ'd later in life unless there's a major problem, and often even those circs are unnessacary. What's interesting to me is why so many people claim it's much more painful for an adult. Is it becaus...

I'm so glad that so many of you feel that routine circ is unnessacary. When my first son was born, my husband (himself not circ) was totally against it, so I left the decision up to him and we didn't circ. That was 11 years ago and I did get a lot of...

Wow I guess my nurses and midwife let me labor down then. I only pushed for less than 5 minutes with both my boys. (First labor 23 hours, second labor induced, only 10 hours). Midwife first time, back up doctor second time. Well really the nurses del...