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  1. Medical Assistants are called "nurses"

    grinnurse replied to button2cute's topic in General Nursing

    Hello- I live in Texas and we do have Medical Assistants in many of the offices that are here in my area which is rural but I have never heard of them being called nurses. They can draw blood, give...

  2. My ALMOST 5 year old refuses to poop on the potty!

    grinnurse replied to dreamBIG's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure you're not talking about my son???:rotfl: I am having the same problem with my 3.5 yo too!! It is his last little bit of control he has in his life and I try to remember that but it...

  3. One week to train to Med/surg????

    grinnurse replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    Run as fast as you can!! Your license is far too important to loose it!! Hospitals like that make me sick!!! These two depts are like apples and oranges and if someone told me I would have a week...

  4. Sickle Cell Anemia and Lab smears

    grinnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had a pt come in with SCA Crisis. Drew labs and they did blood smears but no sickles from the smear showed up. Repeated the test and again no sickling on the smears!! Is this unusual? Could it be...

  5. What is it about Med-Surg that you don't like?

    grinnurse replied to RazorbackRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse on Med/Surge for 7 months now and I guess that I am weird too b/c I love it (hated it in clinicals). Some days are better than others but I have learned so much since I have been...

  6. Doctor/Nurse relationships

    grinnurse replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    On my MS floor, as a general rule the doctors are great, they value the nurses opinion and ask about their patients from the ones that are caring for them first hand. We do have a couple of "jerks" ....

  7. African American Care

    grinnurse replied to CametoitlateTexan's topic in General Nursing

    Which school are you attending? I just graduated last May from a NS in East Texas where we had to do the same thing...............just

  8. I Need Advice from Experienced Nurses...

    grinnurse replied to jimbob7777's topic in General Nursing

    I am always encouraging the LVNs where I work to go back for their RN. Where I am at it is only another year of education but usually at least another 10$ in pay. At the hospital that I work, the...

  9. Asking Questions

    grinnurse replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am not quite to the end of my first year of nursing (8 mos almost) but ask the more experienced nurses where I work all the time about things that I think I should know b/c if I have never...

  10. Dansko Shoes are killing my feet!!!

    grinnurse replied to Carianne's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I had problems at first with my Danskos until I broke them in which took a good month. They didn't hurt the tops of my feet though. Seems like my middle toe is a tad bit longer than the rest of them...

  11. Nurses and Physical Therapists!! Help, Question and Rant!

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I know where you are coming from on that

  12. Fears....mistakes/errors...

    grinnurse replied to FreshRN05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    For me it was blood, serious med errors, assertiveness, and talking/calling the doctors!! With the blood, I just take my sweet little time, double check everything with another nurse at the bedside,...

  13. Charge Nurse reduce in pay to give Super's a raise!

    grinnurse replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! An extra dollar or 50 cents for charge-------No Way!! Our charges get 3.00$ (still not enough IMO) for all the hassle they go through!! Maybe it should be suggested that they reduce Upper...

  14. Funnies/scariest thing to ever happen to you in the ED??

    grinnurse replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

    I work on the Med/Surge floor at our local hospital and my charge nurse had just answered a call from one of the ER nurses who was looking for tampons (this was about a month into my nursing career so...

  15. Physician bullying/sarcastic comments to nursing staff

    grinnurse replied to carachel2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Although I don't work in the ER our unit has a hospitalist which I like to refer to as Dr. Plankton, who always has an attitude with the nurses and tries to belittle us in front of pts, staff,...

  16. EKG classes for CEs in Dallas/Ft. Worth/Texas??

    grinnurse posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    It is time for me to begin getting CE hours and I really would like to take an EKG class. I was wondering if any of the bigger hospitals in Dallas/FT. Worth offer those classes to Nurses that don't...

  17. EKG classes for CEs in Dallas/Ft. Worth/Texas??

    grinnurse replied to grinnurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thanks for the information. I found a few in Brownwood but don't know where that

  18. Received this email today and I am steamed!!!

    grinnurse replied to MomBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I loved this and wasn't offended by it at all!! I am a new nurse (older) but related to both the new and the old especially about the psych pts!! I think it is really important to laugh at yourself...

  19. GN on Same Floor Where I Was a Tech

    grinnurse replied to CarVsTree's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Good advice. So far this strategy has worked wonders for me. When I first started in the RN role, one of the aides that I had worked with tried to give me a hard time b/c I had succeeded in reaching...

  20. Fitting In

    grinnurse replied to intothemoon's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think that would be a nice thing to do and actually did that myself when I changed hospitals a couple of months ago. The donuts didn't last and neither did the job, but, such is life. I included a...

  21. Ohhhhh your a Nurse!?!?

    grinnurse replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    definately agree with that statement!! we have one of the rudest people that i have ever come across that works my same rotation on the night shift though that i seriously would have personal...

  22. Questions about Dallas

    grinnurse replied to cammy429's topic in Texas Nursing

    good luck on the

  23. Ohhhhh your a Nurse!?!?

    grinnurse replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I cannot imagine not calling the aides that I work with by their names!! That is way too rude. As a matter of fact, my hats are off to the two women that I work with, Cindy and Felicia!! I don't...

  24. What good is it to be a GN?

    grinnurse replied to Jo Dirt's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I could have worked as a GN fresh out of school, but chose not to in order to concentrate on the NCLEX. My rationale was that it was more important at that point to pass the first time than to work...

  25. Nervous about med calculations!!

    grinnurse replied to miragal's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Miragal- I can so relate to this fear b/c I was the same way in school and my instructor in clinical told me the same thing about how I was thinking. Now, 7 months into the "real" world of nursing, I...