Dplear

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  1. sleeping staff

    Dplear replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    sbic56..... You know I disagree with your political ideas but we sure are on the same wave length on this topic....fergus...we agree on a lot of things also...glad to see great minds like ours think...

  2. sleeping staff

    Dplear replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ok fire the nurses that sleep...on their break or off their break....who you going to get to replace them? I seem to remember a little thing about a nursing shortage. As it is we are short enough...

  3. Albuterol vs. Xopenex....

    Dplear replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Medications

    Xopenex (levalbuterol) is superior to albuterol in the fact that it does not raise the heart rate like albuterol but the MAJOR drawback to it and the possible reason medicare will not use it is the...

  4. Are you MAN enough to be a Nurse?

    Dplear replied to Cascadians's topic in General Nursing

    The Bald headed guy in the middle is a Harley Rider....Like me cept I aint bald and I also have a beard (thigh ticker...opps not very PC of me) but seeing as I am 6 foot tall and about 260...(some...

  5. Can I read my own chart?

    Dplear replied to shavsha's topic in General Nursing

    You do have the legal right to read your own chart as well as get a copy of it provided to you if you ask. Your chart/medical record actually belongs to you. If you ask to read they cannot refuse you...

  6. How are you supposed to answer the phone?

    Dplear replied to MRed94's topic in General Nursing

    10 Tower David Speaking....if it is a call on our regular phones if it is a call on our Charge phone (we carry charge phones when we are charging....) I answer just with David That is all that is...

  7. Antibiotic bone head question

    Dplear replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    Ampicillin needs sterile water to reconstitue with. It will not mix properly with saline or D5 untill it is full liquid form. Aus Nurse is right that many ABX can form micro crystals and cause...

  8. Torsedas ?

    Dplear replied to RNConnieF's topic in General Nursing

    They treat pointes des torsades with mag. that usually converts it. It can be scarry if you have never sen it before. i have seen pts in it for a long time period. A few pts. have it and never...

  9. Practical jokes at work

    Dplear replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have pulled off a couple of good practical jokes.... one night I was sitting at the nurses table(unit was so small we had a table in a hall alclove) and I was talking to a buddy nurse of mine. I...

  10. What is your net take home pay every two weeks?

    Dplear replied to JMP's topic in General Nursing

    Tracy...... Ya got me beat..I only bring jome on the average..with no OT 3150.00 every 2 weeks. course I do get a 5% pay raise next month. I just got an 11% raise last month...gotta love it when the...

  11. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    Dplear replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    Who has the Doritos?

  12. Filipino Nurses

    Dplear replied to Oscar's topic in Philippines

    As I have told before in this BB I am married to a Filipina. I even have my mother-in-law living in my home. My wife and her mom talk all the time in Taglog in front of me adn I do not understand...

  13. HELP my dry hands!!!!

    Dplear replied to OneChattyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    get a script for Temovate oint. Apply twice a day and it will clear up the red dry cracking bleeding areas on your hands. I tried everything under the sun for mine and finally a dermatologist on the...

  14. Hepatitis B Vaccine... Needing Answers

    Dplear replied to AmyL219's topic in General Nursing

    I had the Hep B series back in 1991, and I was tested recently at the hospital I am currently working at. Guess what?...no antibodies at all. They suggested that i retake the shots and see if I...

  15. Do you mix your own IV's?

    Dplear replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Just a quick response to Nlepoc....JACHO is a PRIVATE accreditation group, not affliliated with the government at all. They cannot take away anyones federal funding. In fact it is Illegal for an...

  16. Men vs. Women

    Dplear replied to BlueBear's topic in General Nursing

    not that I would know...LOL...but they are called Ben-Wa balls....we were just talking about them the other night at

  17. Houston nurses (relocation questions)?

    Dplear replied to kcasey's topic in General Nursing

    Kcasey, Email me and I will help all I can. I know that they hire new grads year round and are in dire need of nurses. I also know for a fact that ALL the hospitals are short here in Houston. If...

  18. "Warm and fuzzy" nurses

    Dplear replied to natalie's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hey now I am a warm and fuzzy nurse.....actually I am warm because I have a fever...and still working... and I am fuzzy cuz that darn athletes foot again....LOL....nothing like a fungal

  19. Experienced Nurse vs. Graduate Nurse

    Dplear replied to Dplear's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hippy.....oh so

  20. Tennessee or Florida

    Dplear replied to Lauryn's topic in General Nursing

    Lauryn...just one word for you about where to relocate to.............. TEXAS that word says it all.... :D

  21. Experienced Nurse vs. Graduate Nurse

    Dplear replied to Dplear's topic in Nursing Humor

    One other thing to go in this group.... A Graduate Nurse believes the lab when they call and tell you the speciman clotted off....an Experienced nurse knows that the lab either lost the speciman or...

  22. Funny Names for Nurses

    Dplear replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Here in Houston we have Dr. Mary Blood....surgeon and Dr Gary Butts....yep you guessed it a

  23. Any takers? Supressed sexual frustrations of husbands of Nurses...

    Dplear replied to Chellyse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yeah and by the way if the wife was a nurse here in Texas she would have known that LPN's are called LVN's here...we never use the term LPN in

  24. Any takers? Supressed sexual frustrations of husbands of Nurses...

    Dplear replied to Chellyse's topic in General Nursing

    I just went to the Texas State Board of Nursing web site and tried to verify licensure for the pretty young "nurse" wife of mr Damon Smith...guess what no license in that lady's name of permutation of...

  25. Nursing and Euthanasia?

    Dplear replied to shelleys's topic in General Nursing

    Sqeeta just on the light side of a heavy subject...hmmmmm unless an allergy to morphine...what are they afraid of?...an anaphylactic