Dplear

A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does....An Experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a pt. throws up A Graduate Nurse wears so many pins on their name tag you can't read it....An Experienced Nurse doesn't wear one for liability reasons A ...

I am a nurse at Texas Childrens Hospital. I have over 18 years exp and make over 100k a year there. They start brand new nurses with no exp at a bit over 23. plus change per hour. I work with a couple of nurses that have about 4 years exp making a...

..

It does not list any jobs at all. It is all just public domain info that is gotten from each state board. Dave

Ummm....thats a MAJOR OSHA violation. Suction cannisters are NEVER to be dumped out per OSHA they are to be disposed of in red bags. The fine is about 50,000 bucks for doing it. Dave

I paid the 9 bucks and got my report....It just shows where I have been licensed and when and past county of residence. It also has a section to show if you have had any action taken against you by any board. All this is public domain info that can...

I use a Fuji Finepix F700. I love it. It is small. Can fit into a pants pocket and it is 6.2 megapixel. right now you can get them for about 300-350 max. has a 12x zoom and great photo editing software, Dave

Where I work, it seems to us nurses that if you have no insurance you get BETTER treatment than if you have it. I have seen people with no insurance get admitted and get the "million dollar" workup since they are not going to pay for it after all so...

Splenda is not really an artificial sweetner. it starts out as regular sugar but has one moleculechanged so that the body does not metabloize it the same way as sugar is. I would be more concerned with an organic rather than a chemical cause of your...

Your management HAS to recognize your constitutional right to vote. Not to allow you to vote on the scheduled election day is against federal law. They will have to make provisions to allow you to vote in your precient no matter how far from work i...

As many men will die from Prostate cancer as will women from breast cancer yet it only gets 1/10 the funding and only 1/32 the publicity that breast cancer gets. I can see where there are battles for trademarks and imiages for breast cancer when you ...

Texas Childrens Hospital in Houston offers these types of internships. We just had a 4 week internship student from Great Britian. If you want I can check here and find out what department you need to contact. Dave

Tell him that he can take his head out of his *** and that you will NOT tolerate being swore at or treated that way by ANYBODY!! Then tell him you will be taking uit up with his chief...all the way up to the chief of staff for the hospital if need b...

Just a quick clarifacation, VA budgets has not been cut in fact it has gone UP over 10 BILLION dollars over the last 2 years and this year also it id going up 2.4 billion more. Dave

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!! It's Monday 8/23 the dreaded OT deathday and uess what. Not one of us here that is paid hourly has heard that we will no longer be getting OT. The scare tactics that the Dems and nursing groups are using to put fear into people ...

Damn straight I am thinking MAJOR LAWSUIT . The shot they gave you could have consqences for you if there already is hormonal problems. Talk to a lawyer now. Dave

I work on a pedi neuro unit and we often see people hungry after seziures. Not everyone has the same type of seziure activity. I have only seen a few people urinate in themselves afterwards or during and I have NEVER seen "foaming" at the mouth. Y...

Come on this is ridiculous....Nurses as a group need to get over themselves and realize that it is ADVERTISING for crying out loud. So I see an ad shouwing someone as a scantily clad nurse or teacher or cop..I take it and so does the public as for w...

As a nurse who has worked extensively in the past on spinal cord injury patients, this is an EXTREMELY importany part of their care. A patient can be come impacted very quickly and it can cause Dysreflexia which can cause them to have a stroke or ev...

Several things wrong here. 1) Yes we do make too little money. That is a given. 2) The average rate of inflation for the 90's was 2.81%. adjustred for inflation the 1990 wages for a nurse was 28,700 NOT the 24000 or so quoted. 3) The average w...

max dose on gent is 80 mg and never give faster than 30 minutes due to the fact that it can cause hearing damageif given faster. Also rememeber to figure the time of your flush in the total time give. We have a standing policy of giving the gent ov...

Everyonemakes mistakes...hell after 17 years of doing this I still make mistakes. Also if the bag contained 20 mEq of K+ then even running it at 800 cc/hr would not have killed thepaitent in all likelyhood. We have given partial fills faster than t...

Hell what about the women becoming more sensitive to the needs of us guys? Dave

Hell what about the women becoming more sensitive to the needs of us guys? Dave

I am a charge/staff nurse in Houston. I work pedi. Dave