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"Not interested in the ANA? Consider joining one of these groups to promote nursing practice... Obtained 4/26/01 from the ANA website of course. Link to any group can be found at: http://www.nur...

After 34 years in critical care; I never went to work without my own favorite med book, my stethescope, scissors, 2 hemostats, a penlight, my own 2 pens, and a critical care pocket reference book that I added my own paper to so I could add my own lit...

Zee, when is the test? I'm too lazy today to read back. I think you will do okay if you remember to use your head. Sunnybrook had some excellent advise.

Congratulations HealingtouchRN; I have never heard of this exam before. How does it compare to the CCRN exam?

There really is too much info missing here for me to give you much help. Why they wouldn't have inserted a SG cath when they put in the IABP is beyond me; did he arrest in the cath lab? What was your MAP; what was the augmented diastolic pressure; wa...

We don't use Levo that often; vasopressin or Neo would be our drug of choice for the BP. Primacor (milrinone) would have been a good choice, I think. What was the MAP?

ACOG= ? American College of Gynecology? If so, no, your hospital is NOT following their guidelines (try checking their website and see if they can tell you their guidelines).

I've cared for patients (back 30+ years ago) that were debilitated and poor who had had maggots in wounds when I went to change dressings. The first time was terrible, but then after that it wasn't so bad because I knew that they would be clean wound...

I used to teach heart sounds at different points of my life. This used to be called a "flow murmur of pregnancy" and Kimmicoobug did a nice job of explaining the cause of it. It is labeled as an "innocent" murmur because there is no pathological reas...

Oh, come on, Mel! There were many times even us oldsters could post and not get a response. I have been here for 3 years and in that time, there were many posts I made and not get a response to a post. When you meet someone online and share some sim...

Soundslikesirens, I remember you from long ago. haven't seen you here for years; now I know why. I have nothing to add to your thread except take care of yourself and never argue with your ex in front of (or through) the kids. Please don't give him ...

I lurked for a long time before I joined. Sometimes I just want to read, I don't always agree with other posters; sometimes it's important to put in my 2 cents; many times it isn't. I've been here a long time; lately the climate has changed and I don...

My hospital no longer calls them "incident reports;" they are now titled "safety forms" and are referred to as "Sentinel Events." These forms do not go in the chart either; nor are they referred to in the chart. We have supposedly switched to "blame...

You graduated with a BS in Nursing in 1996; it is now 2003; 7 years later. I think you need to contact your BON in your state and ask them for their advice. Seven years without taking the NCLEX is a long time; and nursing is not a static profession:...

Congratulations Nancy on finding the perfect job for you. I am a strong believer that when one door closes another one opens. We just have to be open to the possibilities. And I will keep your MIL in my prayers for now.

Oramar, I was listening to the BBC this past week and heard where China has really taken the bull by the horns as far as isolating and containing anyone with possible SARS symptoms. From what I have read and heard in the media, China's main problem w...

Cyberkat; I've had an idea for a nursing show for a long time but don't know where to go with it. In my mind I'd call it "City Nurse, Country Nurse" and have it about 2 sisters who are nurses, following the Mom and Grandmother's footsteps in nursing....

Moonshadeau, knowing you personally, I wonder if your youth may be one of the reasons you were passed over? You've got the smarts, the brains, energy, personality, and the ambition, but in some hospitals you may find that no one under- say, 30- is co...

Oramar, that is the usual pattern of all flus; and that is exactly the same pattern of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic also. As with most flus, contact with it at this point would give you some sort of protection when (and IF) it returns in a more vir...

Oramar, that is the usual pattern of all flus; and that is exactly the same pattern of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic also. As with most flus, contact with it at this point would give you some sort of protection when (and IF) it returns in a more vir...

Hi a-rose, glad to see you again! As far as SARS goes, yes, I am concerned about it to a point. Am I AFRAID of it? Not yet-- it isn't a big problem here in my part of the world. I think if I lived in Beijing and Guangdong, I would probably be fright...

Hi a-rose, glad to see you again! As far as SARS goes, yes, I am concerned about it to a point. Am I AFRAID of it? Not yet-- it isn't a big problem here in my part of the world. I think if I lived in Beijing and Guangdong, I would probably be fright...

Cybercat, my prayers go out to you. May I recommend that you find a Tough Love group to attend? Between Al Anon and Tough Love, it was the only way I made it through my son's drug and behavior problems at that age. Maybe this will be an epiphany fo...

Cybercat, my prayers go out to you. May I recommend that you find a Tough Love group to attend? Between Al Anon and Tough Love, it was the only way I made it through my son's drug and behavior problems at that age. Maybe this will be an epiphany fo...

The Board will look at your record for other problems; if you have no other problems and have "paid the piper" so to speak, they may want you to appear before them (or not), tell what happened, and base their decision on that. If you were plain out ...