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  1. Time for some introspective criticism perhaps?

    guest64485 replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    we may all be talking about different things here than you.... so just to clarify, eriksoln, are you advocating that a.) staff should pitch in and come on their day off during rare occurrences of...

  2. To get the flu shot, or not to get the flu shot...

    guest64485 replied to jordansnapp's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I haven't seen any infants die from necrotizing enterocolitis. Oh wait, I don't work in the NICU, maybe that's why? Its quite disappointing when nurses base their practice on personal...

  3. Time for some introspective criticism perhaps?

    guest64485 replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    If there always is a nurse to cover via last minute calls to homes of RNs, instead of preplanned methods like float pool, then management won't make any change. Volunteering to work is nice but it...

  4. Are you a part of a professional association?

    guest64485 replied to Mashira's topic in General Nursing

    Yes - CNA/NNOC. They are making real progress in safe

  5. Time for some introspective criticism perhaps?

    guest64485 replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    The hospitals I've worked at have had full time float pools/internal agency nurses, and regular staff aren't told if they are being floated until arriving on the unit. That seems to alleviate most of...

  6. does anyone regret becoming a nurse?

    guest64485 replied to CC999's topic in General Nursing

    Most people that I've heard say they regret it, mainly do because there are much fewer LPN jobs out there than there are RN jobs. Most LPN jobs are being phased out of hospitals, leaving mainly just...

  7. Do you regret being a nurse

    guest64485 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Being overwhelmed means you can't provide high quality care to your patients and you go home feeling like you've failed them. Being overwhelmed means there are multiple emergencies at once, and not...

  8. Advocate hospital starting salary for new grads

    guest64485 replied to NoeIssa's topic in Illinois Nursing

    The dream implementation of acuity is better, but in practice, this does not get properly done. Acuity forms are designed by the hospital, and not regulated by much more than just mandating that some...

  9. Hand Sanitizer and Asthma

    guest64485 replied to rnintrouble's topic in General Nursing

    Seems like most patient care areas have sanitizer somewhere. Only place I could think of where you would likely be ok would be telephone triage/insurance nursing where you would not see patients face...

  10. having a boyfriend vs. nursing studies

    guest64485 replied to TamTam23's topic in General Nursing

    Him seeing you working hard and achieving your goals and making something of yourself will help inspire him to do the same - really. Stick with it - you'll be glad you did. Giving up a lot of time...

  11. People in healthcare should speak Spanish, she said

    guest64485 replied to Paulie G's topic in General Nursing

    Here's an interesting breakdown of languages World language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Looks like Chinese is the biggest number of native speakers while English is the biggest number of world...

  12. Immunotherapy RN

    guest64485 replied to yhl1975's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    For your dilution you need to put 1mL of the 40.000 u/ml into 3 mL saline, so your total volume is 4mL. You'll therefore have 1 part of your stock into 4 total parts of volume. 1/4 multipled by...

  13. Immunotherapy RN

    guest64485 replied to yhl1975's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    You'll get stock of a certain extract, like 1:10 trees, for example. With that vial, take 1 ml of it and put it in another empty vial. Add 9ml of saline, and now you have a 10mL vial of 1:100 trees....

  14. asking for meds?

    guest64485 replied to backatit2's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not fully sure at her intention in her posts so I'll let her clarify on that one. Yes, agreed, they may have pain from arthritis or a number of other causes too, and they know their body....

  15. asking for meds?

    guest64485 replied to backatit2's topic in General Nursing

    I think what she is trying to say is that we need to ask the patients their pain on a scale of 1-10 before giving them their meds so we can assess which med is best to give them (or if they need 1...

  16. asking for meds?

    guest64485 replied to backatit2's topic in General Nursing

    If a patient is a fresh post op they may need it q4 hours around the clock for the first day - that doesn't mean they are abusing it, and it may not mean they need a new pain regimen if it is...

  17. asking for meds?

    guest64485 replied to backatit2's topic in General Nursing

    I'm confused by the sheer number of posts that state that they never wake a patient for pain management. I thought the current literature was that if you don't medicate at night then the patient can...

  18. "Nurses do doctor's dictations all the time"

    guest64485 replied to mzjones6's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I have seen copies of office visit notes which say at the end "dictated by xyz", so I know docs do ask staff to dictate at times. Not a common practice though. Unfortunately I don't know much else...

  19. Help. Is my outrage justified?

    guest64485 replied to fairandbalanced's topic in General Students

    Agreed nerd2nurse! Only 30% of my class graduated. Students have to plan that there will be questions worded odd or which they won't agree with the teacher on. No test can be taken for granted and...

  20. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    guest64485 replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure how often you have lurked at this site, but there have been many, many threads about nurses supporting other nurses to eat lunch and even to go to the bathroom. You are very fortunate if...

  21. Centrum Jobs, did somebody heard about this?

    guest64485 replied to erisirene's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed,

  22. Primary household earner?

    guest64485 replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    That's great news! Hopefully your husband will come around once he sees how much happier this new job makes you. I don't think a family benefits when someone is miserable at their job. We have to...

  23. Where oh where have the good PCTs gone?

    guest64485 replied to MissyF_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am guessing sourapril did not thoroughly read the OP and missed the part about the PCT falsifying the

  24. Primary household earner?

    guest64485 replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    chelleanne, while you do have to consider your family, you also need to make sure you are happy too. You having happiness in your job should be something your family supports you in! Its no way to...

  25. Where oh where have the good PCTs gone?

    guest64485 replied to MissyF_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Did you read through the entire OP or are you just responding to the